by phillipw | May 27, 2023 | CO, DE, PO
My Treatment of You is Far Worse Supposing that you wrote a new computer tongue, String codes, a new computer language, whole, From start to finish new, completely strung Out like a spider’s web from you, its scroll From nowhere else but from your mind—and you Then...
by phillipw | May 27, 2023 | LO, RO
Twenty-four Carat Ecstasy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Envisage that you turn his eyebrows gold As Eros’ bow the moment just before He shoots. Another heart is forced to fold In agony of love. ...
by phillipw | May 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sublimation from Solid Straight to Neon If we could turn you into something pure, We might choose poetry, or paint, or stone. The words might cleanse out faults then scalpel cure. The words would take away all gasp and moan. The painting on the canvas would not...
by phillipw | May 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Creators of G gle Couldn’t Spare the Time to Spell Its Name Right “The problem with instant gratification is that it isn’t quick enough.” ~ attributed to a Hollywood starlet An ancient literary thinker writes That after you have written...
by phillipw | May 21, 2023 | AP, AR, GR, HA, SE
How Humans Came to Know Themselves “Know thyself.” ~ the pronaos of Apollo’s temple at Delphi Jeremiah 17:9 By juxtaposing paradoxes of Crabbed contradictions ancient Greeks called gods, Greeks learned to know themselves, thus taught that love And...
by phillipw | May 12, 2023 | Ho, MA, RE
Of Divine Feet Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The truest God would make most horses wear Those manes of gold that stallions and their colts Deserve. These all and phillies—and...
by phillipw | May 11, 2023 | PH, SA, SI
The Opposite of a Pastel Rainbow If you were god Apollo, you could tell The sun hawks, “Bring adventure to me here In form of youth and let the man expel Opponents of the notion that male fear Is part of worship and of love. Let him Hold bravery in himself...
by phillipw | May 1, 2023 | CA, DE, PE
We Had a Dog Once We had a dog once whom (?) my brother killed. This little doggie should have lived a long, Long time because she was so small. She filled My mother’s heart with little warmths like song Despite the high-pitched barking, barking...
