by phillipw | Apr 14, 2020 | BE
The Councillor on Radio Four Today after the Grenfell Catastrophe The councillor on air is very plain. He wants the money. However urgent The need, however huge and hot the pain, They care about money. No detergent Can wash away that dirt. The bureaucrats, Elected...
by phillipw | Apr 14, 2020 | SP, TI, ZA
Zantedeschia, Spathe, Spadix, Anthurium, Philodendron, Tillandsia Cyanea, Etc. Those flowers, those ones that are not flowers, have weird Words given for the blooms that are not blooms. For scientists plain English disappeared When naming parts like these. In lab-like...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | DO, TR
TORToise President He bestrides the world like a colossal tortoise When everything he touches turns to mould, You know there’s something very, very wrong. His gold-like wife has sold herself for gold, Though, yes, we could have known it all along— That she’s not...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | CA, PR
Peace Accord He doesn’t, if he understands and knows His master is not angry. He has learned We do not want him through that door. He goes To stare out longingly. Romeo burned Less fervently for Juliet than our Pet, Prospero, desires to use that front Way. Still,...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | MA
Enlarging and Tight to the Feel “his unfolding mental powers, and his promise of ultimate manhood” ~ Morton M. Hunt, The Natural History of Love Unfolding—that is what a young male aims For. Larger manly muscles must unfold. The mind unfolds. Another part that flames...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | PO, PR
Earliest Poetry The sunlight, bright as gods could ever hope To be, fell down on isthmus, valley, sea, On life and death, and limestone mountain slope Before mere humans. Greece, as it would be, Was meant for poetry but did not know It. Men and women and their...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | MA
The Wedding of Heaven and Hell: Two Types of Matrimony Dedicated to Elizabeth Taylor and Melania Trump I don’t believe in marriage. It’s rotten From start to finish like a match that’s thrown By bribery. It’s not cricket. Ill-gotten Agreements made for fiscal gain are...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | GO
Lollygagging on Olympus The gods are idle all day long like pale Silk hanging from a sultan’s wrist while gone On holiday and drowsing with a veil Around his satin bed. Supine they yawn By banquet tables weighted down with wine, Ambrosia and grapes. They laze about On...
