by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | MA
Masculinity I pass a giant redwood tree each day I go to London. There across the street The redwood raises its erect array Of dark green bristles and its subtle and discreet Tight bark. Its greyness has the touch of tints Of warmer colors but the...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | RU
A Sacred Lurch .. I often pass a dome of holy blue With golden stars, a prayer-hands, tulip form With many-pointed stars. To give this view, A narrow church stands firm. A cherry storm Of pink blows up from down below. (A sight I spied not...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | FE, MA
Academic 501s With features so refined they almost preach Of sweetness, he requires those whiskers to Proclaim his maleness. Pastel bristles reach Out towards a girliness, though they are true To masculinity in thickness and Conviction. Heaviness of eyelids...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | LO, MA
The Largest Composition All will be lyricism when you tell Me of your love. A rich sonority Will sing its way through words, and chords will swell In rhythms and in rhymes. Authority Will dwell forever in the patterns of Those highest forms of art combined with...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | OP
Happily Ever After The promise is that order and sweet pinks Will be provided to be breathed, a rich Tranquillity as faultless as a sphinx Unharmed by time. Sonatas at a pitch To woo the heart will be reflected, glass To glass, as in a Hall of Mirrors made Of...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | BO, DE
The High Days Great cliffs with deserts at their bottoms mark The years. Each steep descent goes straight to plains Strewn out as sand, and drearinesses arc Out flatter than the rocks of numbness. Pain Would be too much to ask. Boringness spreads Out, wide before...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | CH, ST
Prejudice Opposed to Prejudice Was Charles the East of West? He seemed to be The Buddhist or the Hindu mind in Christ. That mind included more of serendipity Than systematic thinking. He would heist Whatever doctrine his belief desired Among the thousands he could...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | DI, PI
It’s not Much of a Stretch to Say Annie Dillard Reveals that Life = Death Who doesn’t have a fantasy that’s dark? It comes up from the undergrowth like slime Or other fungi. It’s the basic quark That psyches stretch out from. It bides its time. Some night it...
