by phillipw | Sep 3, 2024 | AM, CO
Gored Matadors and Stabbed Bulls Have Ancestors Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Old oceans too have deaths. Seas wither, dry And turn to stone, compacted with their shells And fossils made without an...
by phillipw | Sep 1, 2024 | SP
Dwindling to Battery-operated Glimmer Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy found their highest bliss in gazing together at a glow-worm ‘laid safely by itself...
by phillipw | Sep 1, 2024 | AR, Ho, LI, MO, PR, VO
The Lion-Man — 35,000 to 41,000 Years Ago Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When craft, religion, mind first made a part Non-human man, part lion in a cave’s Space, Ice Age times ago, this early art...
by phillipw | Aug 28, 2024 | CA, GR
Kabibi Love and Flowers and Other Things Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Kabibi came to me the first day of My teaching in that Great Rift Valley school. At first I did not know how much my...
by phillipw | Aug 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The tears from cavern ice spears slide down, more Like snow, that brief. The entrance where they drip As saltless weeping is like melting hoar Frost caused by...
by phillipw | Aug 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Like Laocoön and his Offspring Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He sculpts a statue where the brow of stone Is filled with something more than words or lines, Much more than marble poetry, more groan Than...
by phillipw | Aug 27, 2024 | BI, CH, CL, DE, ME
Melancholia Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The dreams reach out as branches from the trunk And try to scratch the brain from far inside. More bark-clamped than a deep-celled troubled...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2024 | CH, ST
Beyond the Veil Avoiding ghost temptations to go through The curtain made of voile of silk between The living and the other side, to you Where you are, she pretends that heaven’s sheen Surrounds you now. This helps her camouflage The truth about the man...
