by phillipw | Apr 22, 2020 | ET, GR, OR
Etymology of Orpheus If “of the river bank” is what the name Of Orpheus might mean,* then that might flow From jet slick River Hades and the shame Of failing to recover, to the glow Of life and sunlight, his lost love. Again It might refer to two of his five...
by phillipw | Apr 22, 2020 | AM, PO
Ambiguity When poetry resembles life, the best Of lines are rich in ambiguity In ways that life is. Open up the chest Of meanings posed and their congruity With doubleness in masks will show the worth In words. A mystery unveiled is like A sliding...
by phillipw | Apr 22, 2020 | HE, LO, ST
Poets, Poetry, and Women For well thou know’st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel. Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold, Thy face hath not the power to make love groan ~ Sonnet 131 …….. Who thinks of blank...
by phillipw | Apr 22, 2020 | JO, LA
The Aroma of Myrrh and the Beloved of John “Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.” ~ John 11:39 (KJV) “he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come...
by phillipw | Apr 21, 2020 | AD, CH
Florida Sunshine Although my memories, bleached by time, by years And decades, are both pale and patchy, some At least float, vivid. Often those with fears And pain recede. Noon beauties overcome These bad ones. Photographs of me when blond, So blond that it...
by phillipw | Apr 21, 2020 | AS, FR, IN, SA, ST
Intercessory Prayer and St. Francis of Assisi …………. I tried to hide my hands but God was more Manipulative than my ploy. He zapped Around with holy beams. He loved the gore, I guess. He thought that while my mind was rapt In mystic trance...
by phillipw | Apr 21, 2020 | OR, SA
Plagiaristic Christianity Saint Francis was derivative of long Lost Orpheus, though Orpheus has not Quite died, not ever. Symbol of the song, His haunting and the myths of him have brought Him through millennia. He caused the beasts To fall in love with lyre and...
by phillipw | Apr 21, 2020 | AN, GR, PO
Poetry before Writing “Greece down through the fifth century has aptly been described as a ‘song culture’.” ~ Michael Schmidt in The First Poets, 10, quoting Leslie Kurke, “The Strangeness of ‘Song Culture’: archaic Greek poetry’” In ancient Greece the...
