by phillipw | May 20, 2021 | MO
Eclipse You keep on looking for the moon. It fails To show itself. At times the afternoons Destroy the view with heavy crumpled veils More like a burkha made of godless dunes Those scores of million centuries before Mohammad’s Allah was...
by phillipw | May 19, 2021 | CL, GU, OR, SE
Tight before Release The bowstring waits to twang. The tension raves Against the fingers. Then the arrow zings As deeply as it can. The target braves The penetration. Tautest Imai strings Await the plucking of a classical Refinement. They desire release...
by phillipw | May 17, 2021 | AU, UN
The Swing on Aunt Ruby’s and Uncle Hubert’s Porch in Georgia Twilight Slow days passing, accumulating– How distant they are, The things of the past. ~ Buson The slow days come and go, but creeping, so Drudged they seem to be going back. ...
by phillipw | May 17, 2021 | AD, BA, CH, CR, EV, JE, TE
Fingering of Instruments So, we are made of dust; at least we men Are. God created us from dust. He bound The dust together with some liquid. Then He made us breathe. Between our thighs two round Or oval things he hung. He must have meant For us to use...
by phillipw | May 17, 2021 | FU, SE
Spelunking You breathe, then bend. The search began with slick Communication of those probing lips And tongue. It gave a fleshy, snake-like flick Between them and you felt it near your hips While warmth was still there in your mouth. Not quite...
by phillipw | May 14, 2021 | FU, LO, RO, SE
Midas Touch He wants to make his lovers glow like gold, Except that gold is tame. He wants to make them Glow, gold eternity, that makes them scold The lesser beauties. He will lift the hem Of death since it is only thin gold rags And find beyond it...
by phillipw | May 13, 2021 | NE, Uncategorized
Ceaseless Becoming Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Things do not begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop; there is simply ceaseless becoming.” R. H. Blyth For Bonnie...
by phillipw | May 13, 2021 | ME, NO, PE
Difference and Sameness Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Each rose is slightly different yet the same As all her sisters (or her brothers) on The stems. Perhaps it might be quite a shame If all...
