by phillipw | Aug 3, 2021 | CO, LA, SK
Coded by Broad Daylight, Lost in Beauty Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Why hide in night, when you can hide in day? God hides in His effulgent, banging light That kills if you should see its...
by phillipw | Aug 2, 2021 | BI, LA
The Longest, Tallest Whole Notes Ever “Seen melodies are sweet but those unseen are sweeter.” The eyeless melody rains down. The sky Seems filled with music—and the space beneath The blue demands the listening grateful eye Should search above the...
by phillipw | Aug 2, 2021 | AC, AS
Aspire Past Platinum Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem …… Rise high enough and you will be unseen. Rise high enough and others will not know. Your essence will be lodged...
by phillipw | Aug 2, 2021 | AS, PA, PE, RE, SE
Singing Sacred Ones When things become invisible, they turn To something like the Holy Ghost. They might Come back like torching tongues of fire to burn Above apostles’ hair, or come at night Like floating space ships filled with promise, hope,...
by phillipw | Aug 1, 2021 | BI, MU, RA, SK
Invisible Music Made Opaque The rain falls down as if in chords, as if A symphony in quietness, playing on The quietest of instruments as stiff As thin percussion ones with brushes drawn Across them, metal brushes on a drum. The only notes we hear as notes...
by phillipw | Aug 1, 2021 | BE, BI
The Skylark Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The skylark sings in darkness and in light, Away down there just at the edge trees, And then away beyond them, in its flight, And from the...
by phillipw | Jul 30, 2021 | AN, GR, NU, OL, RA, RU
Wearing Only Sunlight and Beauty, the Racer on the Track at Ancient Olympia Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Dressed only in the sunshine and his skin He steps as strongly as a stallion to The line. He...
by phillipw | Jul 29, 2021 | BI, DA
Serenade, Intensive Intermission, Concert The birds begin their songs before the light Begins to tinge the sky and hide the stars. These early voices start to banish night: They are the dawn’s commanding feathered czars. They carry on their chorus till the day...
