by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | LO, RO, SE
The Virus: Innoculation against Sentimentality The best fact of romance is that it cures You of romance. You fall in love with man Or woman, girl or boy, and that secures Protection from this illness. That will ban It from your later years. It’s best in youth,...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | CO, GE, SE
Sacred Barrel, Sacred Target, Sacred Ammo He lines it up. It’s softness has gone hard And it at least knows perfectly its need. It’s like an aching, pulsing, fevered shard That’s full of its intelligence and greed. It knows one thing, and that’s enough. That’s all...
by phillipw | Apr 1, 2020 | LO
Ageing Worst The things that age the fastest are love’s thrills. An adult mayfly, living only hours, Is emblematic. In love’s heat are chills Of dying. Love has only briefest powers. Its chills are fevers seeking some escape. We just don’t know that...
by phillipw | Apr 1, 2020 | WH, WO
Woodrow Wilson Whidden, Senior My father did not smell of manly sweat. He smelled of loyalty. He smelled of faith And dedication. His idea of debt Was what he owed to family, wife, love, faith, And sons. An elder in a tiny church, He sat behind the pastor; did not...
by phillipw | Apr 1, 2020 | BE, MI
Like Shalimar by Guerlain Beauty is the wonder. The truth is there For all to see, touch, hear, or taste, or smell. The skin on young ones and their curly hair, The sound of clearest singing of a bell On Easter, each is wondrous miracle Enough. The tastes on tongue...
by phillipw | Apr 1, 2020 | VA
When Juan is Dressed in his Best Outfits When Juan is dressed in his best outfits, he Is like soap opera stuff in a deluxe Gift wrapping, like a flame vine covered tree All brilliant orange and green, or like Starbucks Tricked out as Tiffany’s. He might not wash As...
by phillipw | Apr 1, 2020 | LO, RO
Air Perfumed with Smouldering Frankincense Comes Ashore Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II The way that Paris floats around inside The heart and levitates around my mind, The way gold-trimmed, though black, gondolas glide So near my lungs and try...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2020 | Ho, IS, LO, LU, RO
Testosterone Trumps Religions “Pleasure is the most insolent of all things; and … in amatory enjoyments, which are said to be the most powerful of all, even perjury has been pardoned by the Gods, as if pleasure was like a child, incapable of...
