by phillipw | Nov 18, 2019 | FL
Fletchers Make the Feathers on God’s Shining Arrows Genesis 1:3 “Love is life’s end (an end, but never ending), All joys, all sweets, all happiness, awarding; Love is life’s wealth (ne’er spent, but ever spending)….” ...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | JU, LI
A Spiritual Reading: I Corinthians 13 What merit does this image have? Why print It in between two strangely moving ones? There is a bit of beauty here, a hint Of dreaminess as well, yet nothing stuns Us. Light and shade and texture form the whole Here. Nothing...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | KI, MI
Lightest Dusky Orange, Pearly Grey, and Softest White; Her He Should Have Worshiped Poor little darling Minon got ahead In life by starting from behind. They dumped Her in the basement. She hunted bread To keep from death. From that bad start she jumped To...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | RI, VE
The Price of Poetry French Wikipedia “It’s Verlaine just arrived from Brussels…. He is handsome in his own way, and, despite being severely short of clothes, gives no sign of being overwhelmed by...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | RI, VE
Not Nearly Twenty Thousand Leagues across the Sea Two poets took a science-fiction trip Together, leaving sonnet Europe for Modernity in London. Comic strip Futurity of hardness spread before Them: coal fed dragons belched out smoke and fire On rigid iron tracks...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | DE, LI
Dreary Literary Theory There’s nothing quite so clear that scholars can’t Transmogrify it to opacity. There’s nothing academics won’t enchant Away to mud with their audacity. They do this with their stupid fancy words And jargon they deploy to make them seem More...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | NA
Ugly Beauty You might want to read this sarcastic version of the Greek myth http://www.shmoop.com/echo-narcissus/summary.html before you read the sonnet. The music comes from speakers. Radio 3 broadcasts strains and sounds. They’re more like...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | AS
Rocklike Truth Across the Eons Ashoka “proclaimed that morality is the only act of fame and glory.” https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/AshokStambhaThailand.jpg ancientorigins.net Ashoka chose to speak. He spoke in stone. The Buddha was his guide. His...
