by phillipw | Jan 29, 2023 | BR, CO, DO, Uncategorized
Bree and Dawn The nine year old boy, Curving butterflies zig zag Before and behind. ~ Phillip Whidden The only perfect human beings are . . . Our nine-year olds. They’ve learned the sweetness we Had longed...
by phillipw | Jan 28, 2023 | DE, SN, SW
Windsor Swans and Stillness Because their silence Broods complete in winter snow, White swans disappear. ~ Phillip Whidden They know themselves. They know their whiteness shines. Perhaps they have a slight acquaintance with The...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2023 | CL, JO, Uncategorized
Can Freedom Be a Creed? So…never mind twinned paradox (yet not Just two-word oxymoron). “Freedom ruled,” Is what the English peasant poet taught. This writer did not need his knowledge schooled. John Clare, he should have been called Clear. ...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2023 | FR
Can Freedom Be a Creed? So…never mind twinned paradox (yet not Just two-word oxymoron). “Freedom ruled,” Is what the English peasant poet taught. This writer did not need his knowledge schooled. John Clare, he should have been called Clear. ...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Defiance of the Elegance of Cosmic Laws Snow almost hovers When wind and breezes die down Above settled white. ~ Phillip Whidden The snow is tempted towards belief its soul Has travelled near eternity when close To settling on a winter’s...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ricocheting Tableaux The margins of the manuscripts are filled With wonders, painted rhapsodies of flowers And fictive leaves. The vellum sheets are trilled With monks’ imaginings. A Book of Hours Has farming in the Très Riches fields of France And yet our...
by phillipw | Jan 24, 2023 | CO, LA
A Sort of Living Doubt “A sort of living doubt” ~ John Clare, “The Landrail” Take notice how it walks as if it fears Its foot will step upon a circle in the hell Of Dante. Pacing shy (unlike Shakespeare’s Wide eagle lines) the corncrake...
by phillipw | Jan 23, 2023 | PE
If Adam Had Rejected Eve All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. John 1:3 No finger ring could hold the type of rose Called peony, so rings adorned with gems Are substitutes. These glints are cheapest prose,...
