by phillipw | Mar 27, 2021 | PA, TH
Wakes and Contrails Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Away, Far, far behind, is all that they can say. ~ Arthur Hugh Clough, “Where Lies...
by phillipw | Mar 26, 2021 | AU, FA, NO, OC, OX, PA, SE
Perfect Paradoxes, October’s Oxymorons The point of fall is melancholy joy. The oranges, yellows, and the reds are breaths Of autumn but in parallel destroy. Their bright solemnity a trillion deaths Entails. The oranges are calmly rife With gorgeouness of gloom. ...
by phillipw | Mar 26, 2021 | EL, Ta
A Prophetess’s Eyes For Charles Randall Stanfield Her eyes were deep clairvoyant blue but streaked With selfishness, a kind of hate, that stabbed The hearts around her. They were like the beaked Face eagles have when talons have just grabbed Their victims. ...
by phillipw | Mar 26, 2021 | AR, GA, MO, PA, RI, VE
Irradiated Irises Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His eyes were deep clairvoyant blue, and blue Of lighter kind, both present in his face At once for Paul to fall in love with. True To...
by phillipw | Mar 26, 2021 | CO, JO, MA, NE, NO, RA, TE, TV
Forget About Your Duties, Journalists Not everything must be about the spiked Coronavirus. Tell the media And they would laugh. You see that they are dyked Up, blocked bowels. Encyclopedia Materials imply ten thousand things That could be focused on instead, but,...
by phillipw | Mar 24, 2021 | AN, LI, PO, TE
Textually Abused It used to be that English teachers taught Us poetry by reading it aloud Or telling us that on our own we ought To memorize it. In the distant cloud Of eons past all poetry was set In memory by bards but maybe no One else. Our teachers...
by phillipw | Mar 24, 2021 | DE, HE, LO, PA, RO, SE
Carving Out the Measure of Devotion Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You hardly know the truth of passion till You put it in the context of its doom. It seems as hot as sun spots or the spill Of lava...
by phillipw | Mar 24, 2021 | BE, DE, EN
Off and Off, or On and On Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem So . . . everything will die, disintegrate, Be lost, and atoms will be less than mist. So what? The poets have remarked this fate For...
