by phillipw | Oct 7, 2019 | LO
Polish Splendor Near the Grand Hôtel des Bains We walk across the Lido towards the beach To see the Adriatic, but they’ve blocked The view. It happens it is hard to reach Our goal. In several ways the sea is locked Away from us—with buildings, wall and fence. Desire...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2019 | JE
Myrrh When God Became Small Two times the God of Heaven and earth became As small as God can be. The first time he Was laid in swaddling clothes. They made him tame As any ox or sheep. Eternity Looked down upon a little mite on straw, The might of heaven in a...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
Sheldon’s and Hawking’s Desperation Goes Way Beyond String Theory The Standard Model of the Universe Ain’t actually true. The Big Bang Theory, It seems, is full of gaps. Each one is worse (Or just as bad). Physicists are weary (Or should be) about the...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2019 | LO, ME
Smite the Rock My thoughts and words and realms are in a sealed Compartment, memory, that you must not Trespass until a signal makes me yield. What watchword? Yes, that moment which is fraught With love for both of us, a moment you Recall to me in such a way that...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2019 | AR
Daughters of Mnemosyne Now what is knowledge but a shadow of Wisdom? And what is poetry but tints Of life and death? Music is only love, Perfected love, spelled out in measured hints, Reverberations set in echoes culled From hummed geometries, from pieces heard In...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2019 | LO
Loving Water Love’s well is living water or a spring Of liquid life. It comes to us. We search It out. To this encounter we both bring Our liplike offering, mouths as in the church Of adoration. Love is full of thirst For us, as full as we for drink. ...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | ON, PH
Ontological Problem Solved We bless the darkness first, if we are true To life. We come from darkness in the womb. We live in darkness half our lives. The blue Stars in the sky above us speak of doom Because, like us, they spend their essence far Too fast. In...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | LO, MA
Force and the Angels Not Thrown Out from Heaven The lover loving you will die but not The love. His adoration, like a soul, Is made of immortality and wrought Like Jesus, Who, eternal, God and whole Man, wholly man, cannot be killed by death But lived unconquered...
