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...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2024 | PA, Uncategorized
Paradox of Coleridge’s Liberty “the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.” ~Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” “Art submits itself to law in order that freedom may be brought out by contrast.” ~...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2024 | JE
Rethink of Wordsworth—Recollection is the Point Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I saw gods ascending out of the earth.” 1 Samuel 28:13 Tranquility is not the point. The calm In future shadows does not...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2024 | IN, PO
Primeval Will A poem is primeval will as strong As impetus in evolution for Our trees around the globe. The words push, long, Enduring as a Giant Redwood, core Of heartwood at trunk’s center. Poetry Demands that humans write it, speak it, sing Its...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Henry David Thoreau as an American Philosopher on Poetry Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “As naturally as an oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, the man bears a poem, spoken or done.” ~...
