by phillipw | Oct 1, 2025 | BU, MA, Uncategorized
Needy Men Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The love inside a man needs rest though not Inside a woman, maybe. He must turn To other things or he will be too fraught Perhaps like baited bull. The...
by phillipw | Oct 1, 2025 | AP, BE, CU, GA, Uncategorized
“Nothing is good or fair alone” ~ Emerson, “Each and All” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We know that no thing can be “fair or good Alone.” The Star of Africa when set In darkness in the deepest mine...
by phillipw | Sep 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
No Half-lights Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He sleeps and sleeps and sleeps. He dreams and dreams And dreams. He sets his sonnets wide upon An unsuspecting world. His manna seems To fall...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2025 | BE, DA, EN, SA, Uncategorized, VI
Enlightenment in One Nothing-like Moment in Nowhere Michigan Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The earliest of light, a line across The sky, the thinnest strip of sacral light Above the past’s horizon,...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Nietzsche of the Theory of the Eternal Recurrence Went Completely Crazy Men seem to need infinity, all, times Itself. One cosmos isn’t quite enough For them since their intellectual crimes Are righteous; multiverse, all such guff, Is what men want. The theoretical...
by phillipw | Sep 27, 2025 | EP, HA, PO, SO, Uncategorized
Brobdingnag and Lilliput Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When weakness is the power needed, choose The “weakness.” Orchid glory flares too, too Much. Choose the single cherry blossom. Blues Of...
by phillipw | Sep 26, 2025 | PA, Uncategorized
Metamorphoses Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Apart, together we at once are both. We want impossibilities because They are impossible, a Shabuoth Of cruising liberty, not crushing laws. Apart...
by phillipw | Sep 23, 2025 | AP, LO, Uncategorized, ZA
Zakynthos and Cyprus Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Zakynthos reddish rocks recede where blue Of water colored like no Grecian wine Could hope to be, no wine that Homer knew, The rocks and...
