by phillipw | Jun 20, 2026 | AB, GR, YA
Higher Still Desires Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His graduation goes still higher, his height Increased by dance with mortarboard of black Flung high. From earth of foreign land his flight Soars...
by phillipw | Jun 16, 2026 | AB, LO, RO, YA
“the salt, estranging sea” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He met a man called Abhishek. Although Unlikelihoods of that were overcome By Web-like wonder, life itself can throw Improbabilities, a giant...
by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | AB, YA
Lost in Today Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “forever—never. They are the two saddest words in the English tongue.” ~ J. M. Barrie, Dear Brutus “What doth Joy most borrow” George Eliot, Daniel Deronda...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2025 | AB, LO, YA
The Test is Best You do not need to write to him or call Until you do important, bigger stuff. You know YOUR stuff that’s large and not that small Stuff like the stuff for loving, small enough Because it’s only stuff for love and not Important like a driving...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2025 | AB, LO, Uncategorized, YA
Fighting not to Answer My WhatsApp Messages Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A dribble of slight WhatsApps has become What we can manage. That is quite enough For you. That trickle is the final sum Of...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | AB, LU, YA
Paris, not Berlin, is Called the City of Lights Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The silence that you forced upon me shows Me that I do not need you as my wife Or spouse, whatever. Truth about that grows...