by phillipw | Aug 25, 2026 | AB, YA
Purification Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bing Videos Perhaps I shouldn’t say cascading truth To you. Just now, though, love is all I grow, Not best for you today alone in youth But maybe best to ever...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2026 | AB, AN, CH, CR, IN, NI, Sonnet, ST, YA
Slurs and Omissions Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You know what dreams are like, are like the white Of orchid petals, innocent above The scarlet rose, its stabbing thorns at height Of Lucifer before he...
by phillipw | Aug 20, 2026 | AB, BE, DR, GE, SW, YA
Synthesis Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He sleeps away the German afternoon. He has to sleep because no friend will go To swim with him. Inside his dreams now swoon As if he swims with calm. Their...
by phillipw | Aug 20, 2026 | AB, LO, MA, PA, YA
The Village Crops Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His mother almost saw the seaweed brown In irises. Perhaps his father could Foresee his ocean travels and the gown Of graduation, but that likelihood Was...
by phillipw | Aug 20, 2026 | AB, LO, YA
The Indian Boy Who Does Not Want to Be an Indian Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Not suitable at all except . . . that he Is beautiful and male, he wants away From marriage, even to a man. The sea...
by phillipw | Aug 8, 2026 | AB, LO, Sonnet, YA
“I talk of dreams” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “guard your person while you take your nap” ~Shakespeare ~ The Tempest, Act 2, sc. 1 “Well, I’ll fetch my nap...
