by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | CH, ST
On Passing the Orthodox Blue Dome with the Gold Stars that Used to Remind me of _____ An emptiness so empty it contains As little as in space between hot stars, Or almost less, this vacancy retains Not even light, this void that leaves dark scars Across the...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | DE, LU
The Gemini Known as All/Most Loves Are Lost Most loves are lost the moment they are born. Their DNA contains the genes to doom Devotion. Bonded chromosomes are torn, Though only slightly. They become love’s tomb As well, simultaneous the death and birth. Invisible,...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | CH, ST
A Pre-echo from Before the Time When All the Sons of God Shouted for Joy A perfect piece where every chord and note Is played by perfect hands, you are the whole Perfection music always wants the throat To fill, a melody that must unscroll In air inevitably. ...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | DE
The Zero beyond Omega My friend has entered something like a sphere, A universe as unified as God In green Jehovah’s Witness Bibles. Fear Is absent there, but so is love. It’s fraud To say it’s something else, some pleasant place Of solitude and quietness. It’s...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | IS
God as Dominatrix, not joie de vivre The yearning youths who simmer in the sweat Of boredom in banlieus in France, or In slums of Belgium, or London have met A new god recently. He is The Bore, The Great and Monolithic Deity Who needs submission from such needy guys....
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | SH
Miscegenation Forgotten on the bottom of the sea Or buried under conquered, conquered stones, Lost cargo holds and funeral urns are free From passion. They are there because the bones Of empire need some place to rest and be A vintage slightly redolent of...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | BE
In the Canterbury Choir How beautiful and long a face can stretch, In competition with a sculpture on A Norman pier, Modgiliani sketch, Or long as a Tahitian mountain dawn. Can lips assume this richest red, as warm As classic bricks in hillside twilight, more...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | AU
November 3, 2015, Bracknell, Ascot and Windsor Great Park A boredom colored gray has settled on The unsuspecting morning. Gray invades The brighter colors grubbied by this dawn. Not even that reddish pub front evades This slumped power. This murk has a smell like...
