by phillipw | May 13, 2025 | RE, TR
Invisible Gold The temple built on what is missing, pure For that, is holier than marble. Priests Would hide the structure if they knew for sure That it would clarify. Daniel’s beasts Are far too concrete. They must not be shown Except in...
by phillipw | May 12, 2025 | MA, Uncategorized
In Various Lights A shadow is a young man who’s exposed To certain types of light. These vary. Some Are megawatt demands that are composed By all the males around, his manly scrum. No wonder he’s diminished in this crowd. The light of women also...
by phillipw | May 12, 2025 | MO, PO, SU
Modernists and Surrealists and Postmodernists Ad Nauseam as Spoiled Brats Like Rimbaud Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “A desire for form and limit conquers us.” ~ Lorca, in “Oda a Salvador Dalí” The...
by phillipw | May 11, 2025 | SU
The Autocrat His soul has balls but they are held by spoons The god of cannibal would hold them in. The scrotum of these balls is dark like prunes That God might use to cleanse him of the sin His sexuality deserves. Christ might Have bought a...
by phillipw | May 11, 2025 | HE, ST
Sonograms of Lust My heart has all the chances of a map Of ocean floors to find the kind of love She yearns for since her dreams are more a trap Than God’s celestial guidance. She can shove Her fairytale around, consult the Grimms And Hallmark, dream away...
by phillipw | May 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Grammar, Syntax, Idioms Most nouns have S as part of nouns’ own souls. S starts them or may lodge in ampersand At times. The nouns are searching for the holes In meaning. Nouns prefer a damper sand That they can penetrate or plain dislodge. Their verbs are...
by phillipw | May 11, 2025 | SO, SU
Academic Naffdom He had a nightmare, sort of. He was charged With setting up a new department of Some sort of sociology. Enlarged It might become Surreal, a Dalí* dove (Because so mild and boring, useless, doomed Because not science) filled with footnotes...
by phillipw | May 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Straight is Always Right You know them. They are right: right angles at Their elbows, always, at their armpits, too. The world was made in six days, though not flat. They hold in their theology that two By two and seven seven sorts marched in To Noah’s...
