by phillipw | Mar 29, 2020 | AR
Trinkets When artefacts are placed in galleries, Museums, or the other places where They linger, what cultured calories Exactly do we get from them? The spare Particulars we have about them tease Us more than tell us fully what we want. They are like...
by phillipw | Mar 29, 2020 | AR, MO
Déja Do you remember when a piece of art Held truth or meaning in its oil or stone— And beauty even? Paintings would impart Aesthetic truth and not just some sweet tone Of glowing like a Rothko, luminous But void like Close Encounters of the Third...
by phillipw | Mar 29, 2020 | AG, AN, GR
Classic Clarity Who’d want to read the ancient poets, myth And tales, because of facts? Aegean blue And empty temples, ancient gravesites with A beaten gold mask may be facts and true, But true enough? Excited Schliemann sends The king of Greece a...
by phillipw | Mar 29, 2020 | SI
Love and Delight …… …………………………..~Wikiwand I love simplicity. Don’t you? Why choose A decadence of fretwork when instead A simple life and heart are pure? Tattoos On skin and soul...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2020 | GR
Computer-generated Reverence Achaean gods and monsters have been morphed, Becoming Hollywood and cartoon hypes. These pumped up Marvel heroes lately dwarfed The deities now turned to hollow types In most kids’ brainscapes. Disney, Warner Bros, And animation rule...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2020 | VI
In a Baroque Cathedral, Counter Reformational The paintings, slick and artful as can be, Are pompous as a pope in peacock robes. Such scenes sneer at spirituality, Though that’s unclear. Our lucid thinking probes The glossy oil meaning. Saints can feel Their cloaks...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2020 | AN, GR, SC
Unexpected Metallic Mental Images Imagine being naked, turned to green Bronze, appliquéd with gold growths on your chest, And trying to look calm. The metal sheen Of gilding, coral-like, has coalesced Upon the semi-gloss of sternum, mounds Of breasts, and upper...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2020 | AN, GR, MY
We Innocents, Maidens, and Virgin Lads Waiting for the Minotaur More than slightly puzzled in a distant way By artefacts from long-gone cultures, we React as people always do when they can’t say Exactly what the ancients then could see In their religions and their...
