by phillipw | Jan 27, 2025 | OW, SA, SI
Gaslighting Battalions Followed by Fact When poets are involved in war, they take Their stances separately, not set as corps Like soldiers in platoons. To undertake Their poet duty, each perceives the war From different angles. Some, among the first, Are those who...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2025 | BO, GA, GU
Miniaturization of Romance in Showers .. The wind’s rain shows the light like stars across The cosmos, but some eyes decide to see The vacuum of nothingness. Shine’s gloss Is not desired enough. Instead a scree Of pessimism made of Scotland reigns. The...
by phillipw | Jan 25, 2025 | BI, BR, GA, SK
He Was Real Before He Became a Pablum English Myth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Reduced to being hero, poet, dead And soldier, he is trapped up on a plinth Above pink paving stones, his gorgeous head...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2025 | BI, Uncategorized
Birds Control with Melodies the Changes of the Hours Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The mockingbird sings not to us but to The hovering night. He brings the evening on Northern Mockingbird Sounds,...
by phillipw | Jan 19, 2025 | CH, SE
Perversion to Uncouth When families shun their sons, religion kills Whatever it can find. What faiths love best Entails the worst, Jesuitical skills To shunt the highest laws to sidelines, wrest Those laws away from central truths, and shrug Those principles...
by phillipw | Jan 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Buried for Millennia in Darkness of Dead Dreams Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If roses turned to pyramids, their weight Would add no beauty. Brilliant hues would all Be banished in blank sanctums to...
by phillipw | Jan 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Not Silently, Not Silently, the Wondrous Gifts Do not forget the shapes that you have known. You ken the ones I mean. The ones you took Out, played with, licked, you now recalling groan As only hearts can moan. Don’t overlook The forms that you have fondled. ...
by phillipw | Jan 14, 2025 | FE, MA, Uncategorized
Curves with Weight “and Adam knew Eve” Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pixabay The beauty in a woman shows the etch Of curves. Those hips are not just there as on That early man. They forced the Christ to stretch Them in His universe at...
