by phillipw | Dec 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
This post is the 4,100th post on this website. Because the useless tools provided by WordPress do not allow the creator of the website, Phillip Whidden, to distinguish a post that is just one sonnet from a post that has more than one sonnet in it, readers need to be...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2025 | AD, ED, LU, MO, SA, WH
Guardian Angels God Will Send Thee / Dark the Path that We Are Treading Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The moon in the creek shines upon the breeze in the pine-trees” ~ Wang Wei “The white horse...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2025 | MA, NO
A Blunt History of Two Early Novels “…the blunt end of that mighty engine … presented itself at the entrance…” ~ Fanny Hill When novels long ago were male, male, male And not just written by a man, they tended to Be read by men and women, not like pale Ones written by...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2025 | FE, MA, SE, SI
Romantic Male Love Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Today I saw a novel with the name A Song of Me and You. The order of The pronouns says it all. In loving’s game We’re tempted to remark in most men’s...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2025 | BR, FL, TI
A Florida Grove after Dawn Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The white of orange blossom petals seems Much higher in the morning when the light First licks them fully. They awake from dreams, From fragrant...
by phillipw | Dec 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Woman Contributed Cleanliness but Not What He Craved Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You are like a Delphic Sibyl — but made Of marble like the temple pillars. You Are like a moveless oracle of jade,...
by phillipw | Dec 5, 2025 | PE
Enormous Fulfillment If only men were quite angelic like as Creator crystal Christ had wanted each To be, or archangelic with pizzazz Of six-winged flight to take you through the breach When love prepares escape from workday traps, Then men would be as good as...
by phillipw | Dec 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Whacko Mum, the Desired Dementia Inspired by Sylvia Plath’s “Morning in the Hospital Solarium,” classified as part of her juvenilia and by the actual experience of the wife of Alan in the sonnet. “hoping for some incredible dark man To assault the scene and make...
