by phillipw | Jan 28, 2020 | AS
Diamonds Embroidered on Blue Black Brocade Would beings where eternity has run, Who look and tell Earth’s lights, seeing them In glows of clusters, think that they were sun Configurations or perhaps the hem Of galaxy or constellation light? If such observers were the...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2020 | NI
African Bottoms Nigeria’s the bottom food-chain place Where factory rejects are deposited, Where Chinese goods considered a disgrace Are dumped, where decent men are closeted Because they’re gay and presidents retain Their power for decades just because...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2020 | PO
I Never Had Sex with that Woman “Where every prospect pleases and only man is vile.” ~ Isaac Watts The only thing in Africa that has Some dignity is wildlife on the plains. Hypocrisy and all the human jazz Are what spread evil. Even in the pains Of death impalas cast...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2020 | FO
Death Be Now Proud: A Highly Articulated Shrimp as Gem The lighting strikes, extreme in angle, from Above and glints from it a glory, gold And glowing. It’s as if it is a-hum With lustres of the richest hue and bold In purest warmth. The sandstone it is...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2020 | MO, MU
The 12 Ensemble in St James’s, Piccadilly, Twentieth-Century Music Like ghosts refusing to waver because They are in a church, strings abandon form. An eeriness gripped, disabused of laws, A tremoloed intensity, not warm By any means, gnashes, sails, gnaws and slides...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2020 | BE
Sublimation ~ Xenophonic Symposium, l. 8-10 When Autolycus entered, reverence stilled The room. The men were moved as if a wave Of quiet washed through hearts and bodies, filled Them gently, cleansing. He became a nave— And worship filled it calmly. ...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2020 | FR
Cast in the Mould of Eternal Flame The law corrects the imperfections, flaws, And weaknesses of individuals. It can’t perfect them. Make as many laws As you might frame and still residuals Of cussedness will thrive like tares among Genetically engineered crops. Tell...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2020 | RI, VE
Four Hundred & Twenty Some Odd Days When genius lived in London, English brains Were unaware. When genius loved among Them, drinking gin is what they did. The chains He broke in poetry and sex with tongue And knife and fists, the bindings he destroyed,...
