by phillipw | Jun 17, 2021 | SE
Septuagenarian Silliness Our lives are rounded by our follies at The start and end. In infancy and youth We grow from babyhood, to child, to brat, The two year olds and adolescents, truth Be told, the worst, then girls with swelling breasts And boys with...
by phillipw | Jun 17, 2021 | AM, BI, BL, WI
Black and White Lambs Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Black And White Lambs by Pat Scrap on Pixabay If I were just a little lamb in spring, I think that I would want to be both...
by phillipw | Jun 16, 2021 | SY
Meditation In twilight times the balance in between The beauties of the sweet is tinged with dim Blue homage muting thoughts of sadder sheen. The weight of twilight fills the heart’s wide brim With happiness expressed with darker dreams. A color mild...
by phillipw | Jun 16, 2021 | PH
Twilight, Midnight, Morning Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The sunset settles on the copper breast, Its black point speckles, and the cascade fall Of dark enamel down the sunlit chest. The first to...
by phillipw | Jun 15, 2021 | LO, RO, SE
Gone Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A smouldering in the core of ribcage bones Is what his heart is causing. Blood does not Allow an outbreak, flames of red. The zones Of marrow in...
by phillipw | Jun 14, 2021 | LO, RO, SE, UN
Relief The roses come. He does not think of you. Their pinks are far too delicate, their reds Too overwhelming, and their whites too true. He does not think of you and cuts their heads. The peonies arrived. Their petals are Too perfect, fine, and...
by phillipw | Jun 11, 2021 | MY
Japanese Epiphanies Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Sardines have sunlight shining their eyes And, from the scales along their sides, the light Is light as from divinity. Each dries Here hanging...
by phillipw | Jun 10, 2021 | BI, GA, HE, Ho, LO, RO
Ganymede Has Auroras Glowing in His Captured Air The largest moon of Jupiter is male, Much larger than the female ones. Its weight Is less than Mercury’s but then the scale Of Ganymede is larger. Zeus’s mate Forever clings around his greatest god And spins forever...
