by phillipw | Mar 17, 2025 | DE, RO
New England’s Sand-bound Coast Never mind Felicia Dorothea Hemans and Governor DeSantis In Maine the tides of histories are shown In waves and sand, yet strangely upside down. The past is in the foreground, sand waves sewn Along the coast, a grayness almost brown...
by phillipw | Mar 17, 2025 | CH, DA, GU, PE, RE
Waiting for Sentimental Water “The Gospels, along with the rest of the New Testament, have been translated into at least 1,726 languages”. Google AI Overview See also Acts 5:1-11. https://images.app.goo.gl/S3FbtPPAU7X2qkFm6 The church presents...
by phillipw | Mar 16, 2025 | MU, PH, PO, Uncategorized
Gravity Music Poetry Love Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem £Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Though poetry, it seems, cannot resist The...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Performance as Sacred Solitude; Bach’s “God’s Time is Best” on the Sabbath in the Village Church, So. Lancaster, Massachusetts Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Performing music is a private thing. An...
by phillipw | Mar 14, 2025 | MU, SA, SC
Rhythms Remain and Are Broken Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem These hills in Scotland are like movements of A symphony. They rise and form, and rise And form–and rise like lovers form their love....
by phillipw | Mar 13, 2025 | AM, FA, PO, PR
“signifying nothing” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We do not want our poetry to reach The moons of Saturn. Reaching Saturn’s clouds Will be success. Those clouds are cousin speech...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2025 | DO, WH
Donald, the Man Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For reasons that I do not understand, Society requires that men should show Themselves quite plain in clothes, not seem too grand. I think this...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2025 | AB, GA, RO, Uncategorized, YA
In Romeo’s Ghost’s Clutch I slept in you without your knowledge. You Were sleeping in my arms and I slept in Your brain and yet because my eyes are blue Your mind did not hold on to me. No sin Arose, at least not in your sleeping soul. I cannot promise...
