by phillipw | Jul 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
One The logic (?) of the East where everything Is One turns every ancient Holy Word To sludge made up of One, archangel wing Is garbage dump, Upanishads are turd. Primordial the Wise Ones of the East Were onto something accidentally. Each...
by phillipw | Jul 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Below the Lower Edge Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Of course a man can engineer a trance Inside his mind, a chemical event Within synapses. He has every chance— As history, the saints and mystics...
by phillipw | Jun 19, 2025 | BU, SA
Sacred Blah Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The pain, the pain, the pain caused Buddha to Withdraw from lfe, the tawdriness of rows Of shops in nowhere tows, the pious queue To plead...
by phillipw | Jun 19, 2025 | BU
Heavens of Hiroshima, Nirvanas of Nagasaki Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Buddhist statues offer only bronze Or stone, whatever. They refuse to aid— They can’t. They’re wood and gilt. A temple...
by phillipw | Jun 18, 2025 | PE
Brevard County in March before the Tracts of Residential Invasions Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “every tree that is pleasant” Eau de Cologne impérial, Guerlain (1860) The essence of one hundred...
by phillipw | Jun 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Insight Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A haiku does not have a title since Its subject hides, not wanting to be named. The reader’s sensibilities evince The tacit notes performed, the...
by phillipw | Jun 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Mixed Fag If poets all were beautiful inside And out, we might expect all beauty in Their lives and lines as white as first-time bride Or Easter lily, but real poets sin With booze and booty, Dylan Thomas with His lips and wavy hair. The notion that...
by phillipw | Jun 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Words “what we wish to say is just that which escapes the words” I beg to differ. What we wish to say Awaits in words exactly what we want, As blossoms want to shape in God’s bouquet, As maples wish for scarlet in Vermont....
