by phillipw | Aug 25, 2022 | AS, BL, MU, PH
The Music of the Sphere Known as a Black Hole "Listen to the Spooky Sounds of a Black Hole in NASA Audio" https://t.co/h55hr9lOBy — Phoenix Rising ♀️☯️🧙♂️🇨🇦🇹🇹🔥💫 (@Phoenix22555220) August 23, 2022 Beyond the realm of Seven Sisters, sound Reverberates...
by phillipw | Aug 22, 2022 | AU, FA, WI
Autumn Wind The autumn wind has never found its shapes. October sends it through the yellow leaves, The orange ones and the red ones. Wind escapes, Not ceding any clue. Each leaf receives A hint about the contours of the wind But does not...
by phillipw | Aug 22, 2022 | CR, PA
Occam’s Razor Answers the Question of Creation … ’Tis the Gift to be Simple and Sophisticated The ship, complex, is yet not like a whale With all its DNA. The many bits, The hull, the rudder, engine, or a sail, Together move across the sea that hits The bow...
by phillipw | Aug 20, 2022 | CH, DE
Cherry Petals and Bronze The temple bell resounds right through the white Of cherry blossoms making them more pale, Transparent almost. They become more slight. The sound rings sacred, making them a veil For death since April clothes herself in doom. Their...
by phillipw | Aug 19, 2022 | CA, DO, DR, SL
Unleaping He lies there in a leap, or so it seems. He lies there on the bed as if propelled In hunting. Maybe in his twitching dreams He saw a mouse or bird and felt compelled To grasp it in those whitest sleepy paws Though in a dream they couldn’t...
by phillipw | Aug 8, 2022 | AE, BE, ES, PR
Yearnings White clouds are lovelier or much more bright Than high blue domes. The sky above them both, And clouds and Orthodox cathedral, write A trinity of beauty, God’s own oath. A prayer for monks to chant these three compete. A shape of...
by phillipw | Aug 7, 2022 | PO, SE
Platonic Sweat Only, Please Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You thought that poets do not have plain sweat In armpits, or in crotch . . . or on the chest. Admit it. Poets shouldn’t have a wet...
by phillipw | Aug 6, 2022 | EL, FE, JO, SM, WH
Godly Stones Crying Out “to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness” Leviticus 16:10 The prophet’s tongue is loose. It waggles, this Direction, that. It solemnizes truth, Then censures it. It gives Jehovah’s kiss But then his condemnation. God...
