by phillipw | Dec 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Magic Circle Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It’s strange, but, still, he wears that golden thing. He doesn’t know quite why. It’s like a weight That can’t come off, this wedding golden ring....
by phillipw | Dec 7, 2025 | AM, GR, LU, PR, SA
By Reason of Thy Brightness Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If we attain exactly everything, Yes, even far beyond what we have dreamed, Our wishes filled with sex and love on wing In Heaven’s flight, if...
by phillipw | Dec 7, 2025 | MA, WH
Alleluja Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem She carried daisies (marguerites), the flowers Of Chaucer’s love though “showers sweet” refrained From hurting her or wedding light. Those showers Were...
by phillipw | Dec 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
This post is the 4,100th post on this website. Because the useless tools provided by WordPress do not allow the creator of the website, Phillip Whidden, to distinguish a post that is just one sonnet from a post that has more than one sonnet in it, readers need to be...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2025 | AD, ED, LU, MO, SA, WH
Guardian Angels God Will Send Thee / Dark the Path that We Are Treading Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The moon in the creek shines upon the breeze in the pine-trees” ~ Wang Wei “The white horse...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2025 | MA, NO
A Blunt History of Two Early Novels “…the blunt end of that mighty engine … presented itself at the entrance…” ~ Fanny Hill When novels long ago were male, male, male And not just written by a man, they tended to Be read by men and women, not like pale Ones written by...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2025 | FE, MA, SE, SI
Romantic Male Love Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Today I saw a novel with the name A Song of Me and You. The order of The pronouns says it all. In loving’s game We’re tempted to remark in most men’s...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2025 | BR, FL, TI
A Florida Grove after Dawn Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The white of orange blossom petals seems Much higher in the morning when the light First licks them fully. They awake from dreams, From fragrant...
