by phillipw | Apr 5, 2025 | BI, CA
Perfect Pearls and Baroque Pearls Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The rivers of Granada and of Spain Above it, like the Guadalquivir, feed Naranjas and olives, leave a stain Of beauty in the hearts...
by phillipw | Apr 5, 2025 | CH, DE, FL, ST
Pyrostegia venusta Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He sometimes thinks he has a flame vine heart But maybe that is just hyperbole. His heart is only overgrown, each part Of its outside,...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2025 | EX, PL
Pitiful Pluto We used to think that Pluto was the far, Far, farthest planet of them all. Today We know from telescopes that distant star And distant star have planets as their prey That cannot ever find escape. These spheres, These exoplanets might...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2025 | bj, CO, FE, OR
Ambiflexual S/he licked the black hot dew from Jorge’s pits. He winced with warlock thrill inside his shaft, Especially its head. S/he pinched his tits, First right, then left. S/he felt the pulsing of the haft That held that head...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2025 | AS
James Webb and Hubble Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The far-sight telescopes, like Allah’s eye, Search out the cosmos. Distant, distant things Come into focus. They then falsify The ancient...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2025 | DR, OE, SU, UN
Inside Our Brains and Otherwise Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We lie in darkness with our souls agog, The midnight hours and those beyond, until We wake to ho hum stuff. We rise as mog And not as...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2025 | CA, ME, TR
A Life As Though on Vellum Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His life was filled with little monsters, not Much more, not cancer and no earthquake, no War. Monsters for this man were no more fraught With...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2025 | TR
Those Who Speak Correctly Are Excommunicated Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The editors bring out the silence since They blow off beauty. And, yet, even worse They publish anti-beauty more like mince...
