by phillipw | Nov 19, 2019 | AN, MU, PO
The Greek Gods Must Have Loved Simplistic Singing Fragment of Oxyrynchus hymn, Wikipedia The ancient Greeks were primitive about Their choral music. It was like a grade School choir in unison, with notes devout In worship of Apollo. One lyre played— Or aulos with...
by phillipw | Nov 19, 2019 | FR
In Chains and Shackles of the Presumptions of Free Verse The poets who disdain tradition’s forms, Reject the sonnet and the villanelle, Prefer arthritic shapes like tortured corms Or stringy roots that grow from mocking hell To desecrate pure pages with crabbed...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2019 | LO
Surging Defeat Surging Defeat Is this Lot’s wife or some stone ghost-life lost? A dumb catastrophe like meteor hits And speaks to us. We feel the holocaust Despite not knowing what it was. A blitz Has thrown her clothing back while hacking at Her head. ...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2019 | LO, UN
Music of the Contours Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you view this on your phone, view it in landscape mode or the unique formatting will be lost. The way that curls are lovelier than...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2019 | CA
Milele Tranquility, despite his tiny size, Rests strong in him as if a tiger’s dream Has come to dwell behind his calm blue eyes Because it chose to sleep encased in cream- And-grey striped cranium of fur. Of course He dozes almost all...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2019 | FL
Fletchers Make the Feathers on God’s Shining Arrows Genesis 1:3 “Love is life’s end (an end, but never ending), All joys, all sweets, all happiness, awarding; Love is life’s wealth (ne’er spent, but ever spending)….” ...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | JU, LI
A Spiritual Reading: I Corinthians 13 What merit does this image have? Why print It in between two strangely moving ones? There is a bit of beauty here, a hint Of dreaminess as well, yet nothing stuns Us. Light and shade and texture form the whole Here. Nothing...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | KI, MI
Lightest Dusky Orange, Pearly Grey, and Softest White; Her He Should Have Worshiped Poor little darling Minon got ahead In life by starting from behind. They dumped Her in the basement. She hunted bread To keep from death. From that bad start she jumped To...
