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,...
by phillipw | May 2, 2022 | AN, OC, SE
Unchangingly Changing Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The sea, though always kind and cruel, both, Is never kind or cruel, but the sea. At once both kind and cruel, not, its oath Will be,...
by phillipw | May 1, 2022 | CH, GE, JE, Uncategorized
“The Very Stones Will Cry Out” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Contemplative are agates, geodes too, And also quartz within them. All are filled With meditation colored with the blue Of...
by phillipw | Apr 28, 2022 | CH, JE
“The Universe, the Mind of God” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The leech that falls from trees in Nippon sucks From animals and humans blood. This leech Falls down and finds the flesh and then...
by phillipw | Apr 24, 2022 | HA, PR, TR
Gleaned from the Darkly Glowing Web Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The rightwing ravings from a friend of long Ago are like the readings in a mind Inside an ancient prophet with a strong Dementia...
