by phillipw | Nov 28, 2020 | DE, LO, MA, SE
Redolence Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem As empty as a bed without a man, His warmth and hair, his shoulder and his thrust, His smell and breath, that widened, spread thigh span, Is...
by phillipw | Nov 28, 2020 | AU, GH, LO, NI, TH
Starving Phantoms Missing Thanksgiving Ghosts love to gather in the kitchens where We want our memories to be. The ghosts Are hungry. Famished ghosts would love to snare Lorena’s apple pie, the smell of roasts, Aroma of her pie when bringing slice And whipped cream...
by phillipw | Nov 28, 2020 | CR, DO, GO, ME, MU, PH, SP, SU
Still God Amphibole Tremolite-121232. By Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10140515 Suppose that God could resurrect you whole, By quarks and hadrons, nth particle by Nth...
by phillipw | Nov 27, 2020 | AL, GO, IS, PR, RE
Revenant Religion The ancient skies were filled with gods and gods And gods. We sickened of them, most of them. The priests and prophets held them up at odds With us. The gods were one vile diadem That crowned creation. But these gods were red As death...
by phillipw | Nov 27, 2020 | AL, CA, LA, LI, MY, SA, ST
Lost Legends Long Before the Vedas and the Iliad Go far enough in time and all becomes Strict mists and stone. Fire circles heard the tales So long forgotten now that tribal drums Are recent evolutions, compared. Trails Do not exist to take us back to spells And...
by phillipw | Nov 27, 2020 | CH, ST
À La Recherche du Temps Perdu That beauty comes again from time lost, strong As muscles on the shoulder, thigh, in arm, And struggling heart. The beauty comes in long Nights filled with strangled thrust and with love’s harm. That face appears again with fatal hair...
by phillipw | Nov 27, 2020 | AR, GA, HE, Ho, LO, MA, PA, RI, ST, UN, VE
Wedded Love vs. Armpit Stench Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Romances sans Paroles (by Verlaine) has a “consistently high standard … and reflects his troubled emotional state over the rupture...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2020 | DR, EZ, RE, SU, UN
Holiness of Rationality Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If we could ripen sleep to more than dreams And nightmares—visions verified by veiled Ezekiels, Isaiahs, or the beams Of truth from...
