by phillipw | May 31, 2025 | CH, ST, TR
Absolution for Absalom Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His work required the killing of some trees. He cut them down. He cut them up. He said He loved them, but he wasn’t really free....
by phillipw | May 31, 2025 | AS, IN, PO, SU
The Music of Throbbed Spheres Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A poem comes from inner space — and not. The regions round the ribs are where it comes From, or, from in soul’s sun, its mind, a spot...
by phillipw | May 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Spectrum of Orthodoxy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem One blush of peonies comes out as pink, A pink Jehovah dreamed of long ago. It flourished there in eons. Then a chink In his subconscious...
by phillipw | May 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Eight Legs Can Never Seem Completely Parallel, Especially with a Person with a Soul Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The octopus lives trapped inside a tank, That life a brief one at its best. No...
by phillipw | May 30, 2025 | BU, CH, HI, MY, TR, UN
Concord Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The two are two resoundingly. The two Are one resoundingly. The two are one In Buddha, indivisibly, as blue Is yellow, hues invisibly, haar one...
by phillipw | May 30, 2025 | AS, LU, SA
Circles, Spheres, Ovals Expanded Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Rewrite the stars tonight if only you Can do that. Constellations need not be So limited in color: white, red, blue And yellow. They...
by phillipw | May 29, 2025 | AE, AR, PO, Uncategorized
“What Is the Price of Those Chintz Curtains?” For most, true poetry seems too like art, Those other arts. The artifice is not What weakens it. They don’t object to heart In verse. The problem is that it is nought (Or less than) in its power to make things change...
by phillipw | May 29, 2025 | DU, PH
Enlightenment from Siddhartha and the Others Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Know first yourself. Then, thus, the classics come. They come from in you. They are there inside Your deeps. As...