by phillipw | Feb 1, 2026 | BU
The Methods of the Buddhist Monks’ Bakery and Buddha’s Lips like Horizontal Slugs Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If God’s archangel were a slug or frog The Japanese might write a haiku on God’s glowing...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2026 | IM, RE
Religionists Are Like Pooh, a Bear of Very Little Brain Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem While milking breasts of immortality, That tortured stretched out, racked out thought of life, We find the awful...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2026 | AU, DE, DI, ST
The Golden Bastardized Egg The brutal colors of the Nazi folk Are now repeated much around the world. Their grey and black and brown are like the yolk In black Beelzebub’s brown egg that’s swirled With Satan’s semen. Echoes of the Reich sound Reverberate in Europe...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2026 | HY, PR
Kiss of God Revelation 2:27 She felt as if the prophets were like flies That ran across the lips of God and thought He loved them or he hated them. The skies Were small for him but underneath them fought The prophets since the one thing he had failed To do was make...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2026 | AS, AU, FA, MA, PA, Uncategorized
Solemn Piano Music Forever Ecstatic Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When autumn comes, it comes because it goes In everyone. Because it goes, it comes Outside and in us. Autumn does not doze But grows...
by phillipw | Jan 30, 2026 | CH, SH, ST, Uncategorized
Jesus and I Lose Him in the Fumes that Rise above the River Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When I looked around Over my shoulder, the man Was lost in his mist. ~ Shiki [Englished by Phillip Whidden] He...
by phillipw | Jan 30, 2026 | ID, SA, SE
Idol, Slick Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The mist refuses to enhance the power Or beauty of the mountain or the hill. Their granite beauty is a gray, white tower Above such silliness. They hulk...
by phillipw | Jan 30, 2026 | PA, SY
Salvific Interdictions Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When colors are not colors but are notes And notes are not the pitches of a song; When shadows are not specters wearing coats Of transubstantiation...
