by phillipw | May 24, 2021 | SO
Facebook, Twitter, TikTok … When great Gods go, sly half-gods come. They take The holy landscapes over for their needs. Christ disappears and in His stead a snake Comes dangling, offering shining huckster beads On tv screen or deep from cyberspace. They...
by phillipw | May 22, 2021 | NA, SI, TO
The Yellowstone Experience and Grand Canyon Experience, etc. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We see the sinkholes roiling up from stained Ennui. We gawp at geysers spewing scald Of superheated water...
by phillipw | May 21, 2021 | FO, SE
Painting by Numbers The largest parts are numbered with a plain 1, meaning I should use the color of Your skin in parts without the darker stain Of body hair—or nipples made for love. Much darker areas are shown by 2, Those parts where tufts of nearly...
by phillipw | May 21, 2021 | SE
Dwelling in Thick Darkness Here, deep inside, so deep it’s in my guts A sacred steam begins to build, all this Because I hear a sound. A stallion ruts Inside my soul. I hear your stream of piss One room away, beside our bedroom. Hot And long it sounds like Sinai’s...
by phillipw | May 21, 2021 | CH, FR, LO, MA, RE, RO, SP, ST, UN
Tightly Closed in Open April during the Cherry Blossom Time Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Remembering sapphire air, I think of you. We shared a cut gem spring which lasted long And long because the...
by phillipw | May 20, 2021 | LO, LU, SE
Men as Objects of Desire The myths have got it right about the males And females. Males are hunters in each myth. They go out stalking victims in these tales And tragedy results. The females, with A sudden craze, are forced to fall in love With men who love to...
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...
