by phillipw | Jun 6, 2026 | BE, LO, SE, WO
Venus Has No Moons Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Now speak to me, my beauty, with the voice Of love. Speak love to me as if a globe, A moon of Venus, might make love rejoice Inside my sternum. Lift...
by phillipw | May 22, 2026 | DE, FI, Ho, WO
Chine-jo’s Death Haiku . How easily it Glows, easily it goes out, The fire-fly blink. ~ Chine-jo [Englished by Phillip Whidden] . The worker bee goes out; comes in from bloom To bloom; from hour to hour. She brings Her nectar; brings it; finds an eight-sides room To...
by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | AP, CA, Uncategorized, WH, WO
Quivering Like Cassandra but Between “the salt-estranging sea” and Brine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He did not know it as a boy or teen, Not even in his cosmos known as dreams. He did not know that...
by phillipw | May 4, 2026 | BL, MY, RO, WI, WO
Blake District Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem What Wordsworth felt about the rocks is just About as crucial as the way that they Regarded him. If they cried out in dust About the lakes and hills,...
by phillipw | Mar 22, 2026 | BE, CA, SH, WH, WO
Tiny Bits of Banging Boy Bullets that Betrayed His Bursts His father’s blood and semen caused four sons Inside the woman whom he loved, loved, loved And loved. His manly semen overruns All other genes. The semen that he shoved Inside her womb filled all his sons...
by phillipw | Feb 27, 2026 | CA, FL, WO
The Child and Man Woodrow in Brevard County Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem ”bright jewels of the mine” The mountains of my father’s childhood scene Are cumulus tall white. The Matterhorns He...
