by phillipw | Jul 11, 2024 | DA, MO, SA, SU
Do Not Be Silly about Dalí or French Alexandrines no room for dream and its inexact flower ~ Lorca, “Ode to Salvador Dalí,” (Oda a Savador Dalí) We still have room for dreams as well as flowers. Uncertain blooms? They fail to exist, no Approximate lilies. His signal...
by phillipw | Jul 10, 2024 | MI, PO, RO
Thrills and Swoon Romantic Novels Your fantasy reaches as far as your hands ~ Lorca, “Oda a Salvador Dalí” (Ode to Salvador Dalí) The prophet is a poet. His experience is one known to the poets. What the poets know as poetic inspiration, the prophets call divine...
by phillipw | Jul 9, 2024 | AS
Love’s Unreliable Astrolabe Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A rose is like an astrolabe if you Will use it wisely. Let it find the stars You want to lick beyond earth’s lowering blue. Allow...
by phillipw | Jul 9, 2024 | AU, FL
Fingering and Throat Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Wooden flutes pacify the air. ~ Lorca, “Ode to Salvador Dalí” (Oda a Salvador Dalí) A flute alone can bring the best of peace To air and...
by phillipw | Jul 9, 2024 | MO
Madness and Modernism Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem https://x.com/i/status/1810148186025017458 The Modernists will say my measures mar Since made of sharp steel rulers; mean the soul Of poetry...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2024 | CO, ME, NU
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The novice nun waits still, a candle flame. The flame burns still. These three are still; no, not The column only, white, avoiding shame. A dusk of autumn fills her with...
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2024 | CH, CO, ME, TO
Tranquil Tokonoma One thing a perfect purple rose cannot Accomplish is a type of sadness. Man Is best at that. That is mankind’s special blot. The plants and animals have learned to ban Such uselessness. They settle in their fur Or leaves and just get on...
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2024 | CA, DE, OX, PA, PR
Shade The quiet, silent things send echoes through Each other. Rosebush leaves above the tom That naps beneath them are more quiet, strew Their silence down, reverberating calm On nearly silent breathing through his two Pink nostrils held by...
