by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | DA, DO, IV, JA, WH, WO
The Orange Grove Behind Our House Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A grove can take us anywhere. The leaves Shine distances: blood’s pirates that we play Are in the Caribbean*. Vision cleaves Us with...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | AR, GA, LU
Richard Wilbur in Omiscience Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For Tom Wehtje When poetry is poetry, it zings Eternity as if the one true God Remembered after He had made the wings Of gold on Gabriel that...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | DO, FL, IV, PH, TI, WO
Little Pulses in a Sabbath Afternoon after Church— Helen Not Knowing Any Better Gets Some Rest Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A belfry or a Steeple Without a bell spreads Peace by citrus groves. ~ Shiki...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | AU
Uncertain Omens on a Dry Pond, Georgia Farm with American Beauty Berries Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Aunt Ruby turns the light on in the room And suddenly the garden twilight burns To darkness. This...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | Sonnet
At Least It Wasn’t at the Piggly Wiggly Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He dreamed he went to A & P . . . and not. The street was there, but dreamscape, indistinct In dreams, their weather never quite...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | AN, GR, NE
Aspiring Gyre Held Together Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The triton seashells manifest as far More beautiful than Triton merman god Could ever be. Charonia, bizarre In shape and flare, a visual...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2026 | AB, YA
Purification Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bing Videos Perhaps I shouldn’t say cascading truth To you. Just now, though, love is all I grow, Not best for you today alone in youth But maybe best to ever...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2026 | DE, FA, LO
“O cursed spite, /That I ever was born” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Unless you are a Hamlet (not on stage But really royal, really real) surrounded by Reality complexly evil, rage Of wickedness around...
