by phillipw | Apr 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
Long Before You and Long After You No poetry requires its reading by A lukewarm reader. If we do not want To read it, it will live within the sky Of poetry forever and will haunt That heaven if we do not bother with Its royalty, its kingship, with its crown. Our...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
Galaxies of Diamonds Predicted and Discovered in Your Rib Cage Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You do not have to travel far, past stars And past the space beyond the farthest one; You do not have to go...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2026 | Uncategorized
Competing Mockingbirds in Song Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The orchid and the daisy are the same; Though they are different, manifest as one. The difference is the sameness though we name Them...
by phillipw | Apr 12, 2026 | CL, DE, EP, ET, FU, MI, SA, Uncategorized
Flown to Rest Forever and Forever Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The valley leads to distance and to clouds. Beyond them comes horizon that we see With seer’s mind’s eye through the evening shrouds. Then...
by phillipw | Apr 11, 2026 | Uncategorized
Sedge Warblers and Stellar Constellations Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem SEDGE WARBLER (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) – songbird factfile Each singing bird is like a singing star (Though other...
by phillipw | Apr 11, 2026 | BL, MO, PA
Perfume of Mockingbird Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A sadness hovers in the fact that things, Not just a few but many, have no voice. A tree however lovely never sings. It never speaks in sonnets to...
by phillipw | Apr 11, 2026 | BA, RO, Uncategorized, WI, YE
“from everywhere, from nowhere” ~ R. H. Blyth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I hand the cosmos over to your heart And hand. Why not? I do not have the power To give it to you, but because pure heart...
by phillipw | Apr 11, 2026 | PE, PO, SH
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We know that poetry desires to sing From everywhere. From everywhere the song Is launched. It comes from voice upon the wing. It comes from everywhere where hearts may...
