by phillipw | Feb 28, 2021 | DR, FL, RE
Escape from Recurring Pain The water comes before, then comes the flow Of water after. Now, forever, these First lead then follow. Floods or trickles go Wherever they insist. Priests can’t appease Them. Always they repeat their sequence, force, Retreat, return. ...
by phillipw | Feb 28, 2021 | NE, WI
The Wisest Words were Written Long after They Were Spoken The wisest words are of the ages long Ago, so long that many people now Are not acquainted with their force. A gong Is struck but sounds more like an echo. Thou And thee are how most think of them, at best. A...
by phillipw | Feb 27, 2021 | GU, LO, PA, RO
Le crème The mouth would speak. The poem disappears. The heart desires to love. Sweat fades away, Though. Passion lasts for moments, not for years. He sits alone, Parisian café Amour around him where he used to sit With more than newsprint words. ...
by phillipw | Feb 27, 2021 | LO, RO, SE
Leave it Unnamed It never is created by mere speech And silence cannot penetrate it. Deep It always is. It has a wounded reach Too often with a name, sometimes, in sleep But in the waking hours the names that come To it are shallow, like a shallow pond. No...
by phillipw | Feb 27, 2021 | AE, BE, ES, SW
Above, Beyond The swan does not desire to leave his white On water. Swimming on the surface he Turns neck and head towards his goal with slight Concern for beauty. Serendipity Meanders on the surface. Folded wings Are calmer than the flowing stream he...
by phillipw | Feb 27, 2021 | AE, BE, BU, ES, PH, PL, SW
Solemnity The swan reflects the water. Water’s light Shines off the grace. It moves like moon-drawn flow Up rivers. Streaming feathers claim the white Of foam on ocean waves. The feathers go Where God would go if he were mortal in A world devoid...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2021 | EM, MA, PH, ST
The Tonic of Thought from Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Not all of thought is good, but thinking heals, Or offers therapy. The thinkers past Give guidance in their...
by phillipw | Feb 24, 2021 | BU, RE, TR
Día de los Muertos and Egyptian Pyramids Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Basile Morin, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The lotuses in...
