by phillipw | May 16, 2022 | DR
The Fix that Wasn’t He made a cup of coffee, cream and mild, So mild that Chuck would not have drunk it. He Preferred it black and strong and bitter, wild As Chuck’s addiction, which was white. The glee It gave him was a feral thrill. It blocked...
by phillipw | May 14, 2022 | TR, Uncategorized
Untroubled Gaultier Green The May-time trees put on their costumes, green, Green, green, and greenish yellow, style. A few Are copper beech in color. All have sheen Of silk and satin, every one. Their coup D’etat is total like a Paris show Composed by...
by phillipw | May 11, 2022 | CY, GA, Ho, LO, MA, PH, RO, Uncategorized
Someone Special Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Who has to be a special someone when He knows that he is loved? Perhaps some sun God loves him. Maybe he knows more than men...
by phillipw | May 10, 2022 | AR, ED, MI, ST
Love is Empty, Friendship Dead Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Pierrot, a macaroon! I cannot live without a macaroon!” The puppets, dressed in satin, purply, ruffs, And skirts of apple green, cerise...
by phillipw | May 9, 2022 | CH, HA, JA, PO
Burden Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem All the cherry blooms I saw today have become A pink load on me. ~ Sobaku [freely and unfreely paraphrased by Whidden] Sobaku’s postscript to his painitng...
by phillipw | May 6, 2022 | Ta
Laotse and Chuangtse All nature palpitates with life, more true When life has died. Philosophy might try To be as true. Religions have their pew In nature’s temples, roofs a higher sky In thought and feeling. Mind’s mysticisms Fail, though, when man’s...
by phillipw | May 4, 2022 | AE, BE, ES, HE, JU, LI, MA, PH
Junge Männer, a Sonnet Sequence on the photographs in Herbert List’s Junge Männer [Each sonnet is about at least one of the sonnets in List’s book. Before the title of each sonnet is the number of the photograph the poem is about, as in (#1). Often (or...
by phillipw | May 2, 2022 | OC, PO
West and East Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The best of western poetry brings stabs Of truth and recognition to the lung And heart. Those lines do not bring hardened scabs,...
