by phillipw | May 28, 2025 | AB, MU, NO, Uncategorized
Hard Produces Hard and Soft The poet is just plain peculiar if He opposes cosmic law. Unique Is what that law requires. If there’s a whiff Of uniformity, a tiny tweak Is DNA-deployed. This law insists On freaks. No perfect copy is allowed. There always have...
by phillipw | May 28, 2025 | RI
The Truest Stone Will Cry Out Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you were water stored inside a stone, What should your color be? Would blood choose blue, A brilliant blue, a blue that God would own As...
by phillipw | May 28, 2025 | ED
Blackford Pond Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The pond expresses clarity. At first The surface is a mirror catching sky And clouds. This surface seems to have a thirst For clouds,...
by phillipw | May 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Consequential Contradiction Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Spring’s wind has disappeared. The petals fall, Continue falling, pink in mystery Still falling. Mystery still sends its call. The abbot...
by phillipw | May 26, 2025 | SU, Uncategorized
Flouting Celestial Spheres Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Wherever waters are, wherever their Waves flow, the sun strikes towards their surface, towards Their depths. The moon and...
by phillipw | May 25, 2025 | BR
The Housing Estates with Royal Poinciana Killed Off the Groves Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Vast realms of orange groves spread out across The sands of Florida. Uncounted trees Became the kings and...
by phillipw | May 24, 2025 | BR, FL, Uncategorized
Late Spring and Early Autumn Before palmettos flourish out in flower (In starburst blooms above the sand below), The coral-colored citrus has its hour In globes like giant orange pearls on show In Florida. They hardly seem to be Within the same dimension,...
by phillipw | May 23, 2025 | BU, EN, EY, SA, Ta, TR, Uncategorized, ZE
Zen and Lucas Samaras’s Inner Mirror Cube Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Note: If you step into this cube and the entry door is then closed, you will understand this sonnet… and perhaps much else about...
