by phillipw | Apr 19, 2024 | CH, CR, RE, RO, TH
Gargoyles Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The gargoyles were created to display Some truth and not to ward off evil things. Perhaps grotesques were fashioned to betray The evils of the Church, the...
by phillipw | Apr 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Beauty and Truth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I have never seen a man who loved virtue as much as he loved beauty.” ~ Confucius Men love the truth . . . perhaps . . . if...
by phillipw | Apr 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Black, Not Shining, Yet the Truth Strikes Through Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The tiny fly or wasp-like beast walks six Legs straight across my screens, computer’s, then My phone’s. He pauses for a...
by phillipw | Apr 16, 2024 | EI, PR, WH
Above the Big Old White-paged Bible She Held, Though Below It Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem She did not have to breathe. Why breathe when lungs Were lifted into visions and in trance With Christ and...
by phillipw | Apr 12, 2024 | CR, MA, ME, VI
Damned Quixote Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When William Blake went mad, it was his soul That drove him to it. It was far too straight, As straight as light, unerring in its goal When...
by phillipw | Apr 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Sea of Floating Crystal Balls Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The reason poetry has always been Required is that most people lack the power To spell out utterness as perfect kin To Tuesday nights,...
by phillipw | Apr 9, 2024 | CO, PU, SN
Meaningless in French Restaurants With grace in every part the snail moves, fast Like all perfections, fast in nature, form And beauty. Snails do not want meanings vast And mystical. The snail is not a warm Enlightenment from Zen, sparrows picked By Christ for...
by phillipw | Apr 8, 2024 | AN, GR, JA, MO, RO
I Canali, un Pranzo, il Arsenale Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Romans, Japanese and Greeks once had A reverence, religious in a calm Way, quiet, for the clockwork things, the sad (The...
