by phillipw | Dec 12, 2021 | DE, RA
Rape, Shadows, Spring Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When rape blares out in shadowed parts of fields, The spring is past. Rape glares in yellow swathes Across the farm. All other...
by phillipw | Dec 11, 2021 | CH
Dim and Not Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He carries one white candle in the space Beneath cathedral vaults. He has to hold His hand in front of it, so just a trace Of light...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2021 | DE, FU, PA, SA, VI
Flowers and Men and Fate Palled eons hover in the space between Each falling petal, each palled eon called Eternity or death. These, each one seen As equal, spy themselves as self-same, sprawled Like vileness, black. Each falling petal floats To vacuum. ...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2021 | AL, AR, GL, HA, IN, QU, WI
Magnanimity: Mourning Gladstone Finally Offers a Peerage to Tennyson and Finally the Mourning Poet Accepts It Arthur Henry Hallam William Ewart Gladstone Alfred, Lord Tennyson Forget the jealousy between two men in love. Forget what beardless envies that in youth...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2021 | AL, BR, FI, RU, SE, WA, WO
The War Poet “a rich nature … fighting eagerly towards the truth.” “I have a rendezvous with death At some disputed barricade” ~ Alan Seeger Alan Seeger Not all war poets are the same as Brooke. Not all are like a cabinet display Of...
by phillipw | Dec 5, 2021 | CH, DA, PL, Uncategorized
Blackness Stained to White and Pink Each dawn will come now From the white plum blossoms on Branches of black trees. ~ December 4 2021 Where dawns derive from has been falsified By scientists. They say it’s from the sun Arising. Is...
by phillipw | Dec 5, 2021 | BE, BR, FL, Ho, OR, TI
Enamel Trees Longing Ago The orange blossoms fill my native place. They fill it every year with white perfume. The scent has piquant yellow at heart’s space, The hearts held out bouquet-like, as a plume On green wing branches where the mockingbird Might...
by phillipw | Dec 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
Karen among the Silly Sopranos A gorgeousness was throbbing at the heart Of girls there singing Christmas carols. They Were wearing curlers, stupidly. One part Pulsed utterly among their midst. “Give way,” It urged the others, weak sopranos high And...
