by phillipw | Dec 2, 2025 | DI, VO, WO
Locked Up Like Lucifer in Hell Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He gropes for that immortal active verb, That one you know, that every lover knows, The total verb just waiting to disturb The mortal gods...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2025 | DA, DR, Uncategorized
Alone My dream remains alone. It lurks inside My core though hoping to escape. In sleep it twisting sneaks for ways to slide To daylight thrills. A hero in a cape Might help but in my doubts he will not swoop And lift m high to glide far up above Low...
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 | Dec 1, 2025 | AU, DE, FA
Fall? But what if it’s an autumn leaf? Can you Lean back to April and the early spring? If so, the challenge will be making new From withered old. The leaf may be a wing October soon will send across the chill Of air, Vermont in varying leaf veins Of yellow,...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Peace Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When silence and its stillness really mean, Blue flutes become involved with azure drums. The silence, stillness, flutes and drums are seen As one by...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2025 | IA, RO, SC
“The lunatic, the lover and the poet” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The iambs run berserk in Shakespeare when He deals with madmen, lovers, poets crammed Together in one line. He knows that men, Poor...
by phillipw | Nov 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
Streaming Through the Firmament Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If Absolute be Absolute, it shears Away the Relative of voids and voids Among the galaxies, between the spheres, Between Dark Matter and...
