by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | AP, CA, Uncategorized, WH, WO
Quivering Like Cassandra but Between “the salt-estranging sea” and Brine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He did not know it as a boy or teen, Not even in his cosmos known as dreams. He did not know that...
by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | AB, YA
Lost in Today Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “forever—never. They are the two saddest words in the English tongue.” ~ J. M. Barrie, Dear Brutus “What doth Joy most borrow” George Eliot, Daniel Deronda...
by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | CH, RO, ST
Charles Randall Stanfield in a Friday Evening, Sacred Singing’s Sabbath Service Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The kindliest symptom, yet the most alarming crisis in the ticklish state of youth” ~...
by phillipw | May 8, 2026 | NI, PS
Above and Not Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Above the depths of mind a bridge floats, dreams. Though insubstantial dreams float brighter than The Milky Way, more stretched out than dark streams Of...
by phillipw | May 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Au$trian Jewe$$ Addre$$e$ Her Tubby Hubby in her Heap of a $hop on Main $treet in Titu$ville in the 1960$ Far Away from Auc$hwitz But Not Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The unexamined lifele$$ne$$ i$...
by phillipw | May 7, 2026 | BR, CA, DO, PH, WH
Bluest Sky “by meer playing go to heaven” ~Henry Vaughan We played beside Canaveral’s shore, the two Of us, he strong and beautiful as men Can be, and me a silly boy, a stretch Too far that sunshine afternoon, and then We strained to life beyond the gilded sand And...
by phillipw | May 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
Choose Golden or Hard Steel Rule Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The nationalist white Christians want to rule The nation (and the world). But they are not True Christians. White ones such as them would...
by phillipw | May 6, 2026 | Uncategorized
The God of Mercy “rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.” “the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever” Some people want all poetry to be Like Bambi sans the death of mother, their Theology to be...
