by phillipw | Nov 27, 2025 | PR, TR
Profiles in Pusillanimity “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.” ~ Emerson, “Self-reliance” It used to be that we had Senators And Congressmen and women. Now that’s changed. In decent times we had progenitors Who gave us heroes. Now we are...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | FA, RE, TR
Over the Rainbow “The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and changing, not in the become* and set-fast, and therefore, similarly, the reason (Vernunft) is concerned only to strive to the divine through the becoming and the living,...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | NI, SO
Supreme Socrates and Nay-saying Nietzsche Considered in the Context of the Eternal Recurrence Nietzsche in ancient Greek straitjacket as Socrates with hemlock; image produced by Grok AI at the direction of the poet If Socrates had had a watch, he would Have wound it...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Harlequin Ruse Honeys Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Spun sugar on a five-star chef’s dessert Looks like romances sold at checkout tills In Walmart, women wanting needed spurt Of unattainables, not...
by phillipw | Nov 25, 2025 | CH, ST, Uncategorized
48 53 58 63…Februaries Schisms as Chasms Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The five-year gap between the times that you And I were born, our ages (ever spread) Will never be erased until the skew Of death...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2025 | IN, MA, WE
Epithalamium Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The love affair continued only long Enough to give him throbs, bypassing pain, (Yet pleasure’s pain). That pain was not as strong As stinging needle prick...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2025 | FU, SI, Uncategorized, WE
Unspoken Truths For Aunt Ruby, Uncle Hubert and Donald No words are spoken. Still this silence speaks, No silence in synapses. Thinking there Inside the minds waits. Patience slyly seeks For something, scarlet bliss or quiet blare Of revelation. Either one will...
by phillipw | Nov 23, 2025 | EN, Uncategorized
Golden and Silver Lights of the Inner Heaven of Dreams, Visions and Revelations Revelation Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.” ~ Sir Thomas...
