by phillipw | Oct 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Puzzle “Right . . . what is my point? My point is simply that I love you, that we’re linked in some way that none of the others is linked.” ~Anne Rice, Memnoch the Devil Of course I don’t remember this gilt...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2019 | FR, LO
Mt. Rainier and Companionship I lie, a lake beneath your mountain range, Beneath your Cascades peaks and steepest sides. I brood and find the highest heavens strange Except that they bend down and stir up tides Because you touch them with rock beauty. Your Crests...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2019 | AT, DA
Soundless Hymns of Dawkins Hmmm. Even if there is no God, is that A truth that needs a celebration? Should Huzzahs of glee erupt if faith goes splat? Is triumph fitting if eternal good And Love are shown to be a sigh, no more? If godlessness is proved, do humans...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2019 | GO, OM
If God Foreknows Everything, He has Already Agonized for an Eternity No rebel myth of iron, or lead, or gold Presumes that we should feel a molten ruth For God. No revolt, even in one fold Of plot or detail, hides a prophet’s truth That pity for Almighty God...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2019 | BE, MA
Imperfections He stares out, haughtiness implied in brows Here blackly burned above uneven eyes. That large, uneven nose might just arouse Distrust. Unevenly an eyebrow lies Distorted at the nose as if it grew More chest hairs there like those revealed inside His...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2019 | AR
Beyond the Frame An outline always touches things outside Itself and so is more inclusive, though It does not mean to be. Its lines collide Not only with what edges touch, just so, Inside a painting’s bounds, for instance, but The vast surroundings everywhere about...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2019 | AR
The Lost One “Master Alfred de Musset says great artists … belong to space, to the universe, to anything infinite.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan I could not give an outline of him, for how Could I begin, or end? A paradox Is all that could result. He’s just...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2019 | FR, RE, SA
Brother Shun Who got St. Francis of Assisi’s clothes, Those ones he shed in nakedness before The bishop? How could anyone dispose Of solemn beauty in that scene? Who wore Them after that self-abnegation made Of silklessness and stripped down young male skin And...
