by phillipw | May 1, 2025 | BR, FL, SE
The Concrete Block Box This box is painted white and stands Against the colored world that wants to stain. A doctrine bundle tied with texts withstands The onslaught. Pure, the walls reject the strain Of U. S. Highway Number One so crude In stretch from Maine to...
by phillipw | May 1, 2025 | LU, SA
At an Exhibition in the WhitneyModern poetry modern verse c Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When Samaras’s mirrored cube and room Become the entry to satori, light Becomes reflected endlessness, a...
by phillipw | May 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Mount of Transfiguration and the New Jerusalem in a Romantic Symphony We make a mirror lacking silver for The one we love. We make the backing gold Instead and see the image made. The score That we compose behind the glass is old As any love that men conceive. ...
by phillipw | Apr 30, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Sonnet is a Breath that Tries to Immortalize a Sigh If I could tie a knot in time, that knot Would bind up you and me, a red star bow Around us for eternity; if not That long, since even goddesses all know That nothing lasts forever, then for time Times time, or...
by phillipw | Apr 30, 2025 | CH, SE, Uncategorized
A Resurrected Apollo in the Afternoon in Brevard County, Florida Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem No mist defied his eyesight but a haze Surrounded everywhere he walked. The grove Behind his boyhood...
by phillipw | Apr 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
When the Tain behind the Glass of a Mirror, and the Glass Itself, and the Mirror Itself Are All One with the Universal One, Then We …Know Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Two-way mirror When...
by phillipw | Apr 29, 2025 | DE, VA
Entropy’s Final Nothing Millennia before I died, the time Before me stretched far backward . . . backward — far The eons lay in lifeless silence. Slime Began to grow as if with plans. A star Looked down and saw no life. Some cells appeared Inside some mud,...
by phillipw | Apr 29, 2025 | RO
Shelley Offers Warning Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The desire of the moth for the star” He has a love affair with love so close He even fights with it. Well, he’s a man And men love fights. ...
