by phillipw | Jan 19, 2025 | CH, SE
Perversion to Uncouth When families shun their sons, religion kills Whatever it can find. What faiths love best Entails the worst, Jesuitical skills To shunt the highest laws to sidelines, wrest Those laws away from central truths, and shrug Those principles...
by phillipw | Jan 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Buried for Millennia in Darkness of Dead Dreams Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If roses turned to pyramids, their weight Would add no beauty. Brilliant hues would all Be banished in blank sanctums to...
by phillipw | Jan 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Not Silently, Not Silently, the Wondrous Gifts Do not forget the shapes that you have known. You ken the ones I mean. The ones you took Out, played with, licked, you now recalling groan As only hearts can moan. Don’t overlook The forms that you have fondled. ...
by phillipw | Jan 14, 2025 | FE, MA, Uncategorized
Curves with Weight “and Adam knew Eve” Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pixabay The beauty in a woman shows the etch Of curves. Those hips are not just there as on That early man. They forced the Christ to stretch Them in His universe at...
by phillipw | Jan 14, 2025 | AI, BO, ED, GA, LO, RO
On Wings of Longing In future I will fly to Spain to find . . . And find. I hope to find a long-lost past With someone in it, long in heart and mind Of meetings, Edinburgh, Aix . . . memories vast For me, as long as forty years and more. This one I hope to...
by phillipw | Jan 14, 2025 | SY
In a Glass of Absinthe Mixed with Trojan Blood Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The oldest Homer, blind or not, might see That caves of poetry are where the dark And torches, wavering with black, agree....
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2025 | NO, OR, RE, SU
Red Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The red around us means STOP, DANGER, NO If it is human-made. Perhaps it hints Some other code in nature. In the glow Of skies at sunset,...
by phillipw | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
“The silent stars go by” ~ Phillips Brooks The stars are silent, always silent, though If one soars through another auraed star, A roar must sound. Their particles must go Right through coronas. Each hot haar must scar The other but the silence, once profound, Turns...
