by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | RO
14 Poetic Months in London and 18 in England Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In morality and talent this Raimbard [sic], aged between 15 and 16 [at the time Paul and Arthur met], was and is a...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | AN, RE, SP
Love Stripped Naked and Transcending Guatama leaves his palace and wanders From his wealth across the plains, sits beneath A tree in calmness made of mind, ponders The cosmos, blasting pleasures, lasting pains, And settles on the center of a flower. It grows...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | RI
An Immodest Georgian Mansion Montpellier House, 165 King’s Road, Reading Do people ever think of Rimbaud as A Georgian or Victorian? Well, no, But turning poetry to razzmatazz Occurred substantially in London, though In Reading, Berkshire, too, so...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | RI, Uncategorized, VE
No Doubt That high position in the mansion might Have reinforced his image of his place In history. Rimbaud conceived no slight Position for himself among the race Of poets. Maybe he surmised that he Could lord it over his boss, who after All was only a...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | BE
Broken, the Delivery Van My wife and I call kittens who are grown Up but are still kittenish (no, not still, But very lively, like a skipping stone On water) kattens. The photo to fill The real gold frame from Venice here beside My laptop is of Bene posing, one...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | LO, PA
Come Walk Across my Heart My heart’s a fiery organ all for you. It searing strength and lightwaves are just for One. It originated as hard blue. When you have turned it into nothing more Than fiery coal, its full intensity Will rage like solar flares if anyone Comes...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | RI
Hard Mast Deck “looks as if the horizon’s been multiplied” What multiplied the poets’ horizon? What took them both together far beyond Mere reality? What was the mizen Driving them past the little bourgeois pond That they had lived in till they crashed against...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | RI
Marked = Scarred “I shall gash myself all over. I shall tattoo myself. I want to become as hideous as a Mongol. You’ll see. I’ll go screaming through the streets.” ~ Arthur Rimbaud Admit it. Geniuses are scarred, as are Perverted men. If we combine...
