by phillipw | Jan 24, 2026 | BE, DE, Ho, YO
Across the Cosmos Desire Gets What Nature Dooms Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The egg desires to be a larva. It Desires to be a pupa. That desires To grow transparent wings to fly, then flit From...
by phillipw | Jun 15, 2025 | BE, CO, Uncategorized, YO
Travesty of Singing from the Stage Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Just screaming and then shouting—not like jazz Or any type of music—that is what We suffer. Gone are bourbon razzmatazz STREET MUSIC...
by phillipw | Jun 26, 2024 | HE, LO, RE, RO, YO
Knots Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Every word was once a poem. ~ Emerson We try to tie a knot to give some truth To life, our lives. At times this means red grace, A bow of...
by phillipw | Jul 12, 2023 | AN, FR, PE, PH, VA, YO
Orange Penetrates so Intense that It Throbs as Purple Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Why bother with bare beauty when deep sex Comes offered in the package? Canyons etched With liquid bearing scree...
by phillipw | Oct 9, 2020 | ME, SE, YO
Little Nooks Our selves, our other selves, remain in some Place, somewhere. They are in our minds, the minds Of others, in our memories. They come Up, recollections in our brains. These rinds Are what we used to be when younger, young In places...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AT, DE, NA, YO
Two Men from Two Small Places Save Poetry for the Universe: Athenaeus of Naucratis and C. D. Yonge of the Village of Eton Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem One thousand and six hundred later years...