by phillipw | Nov 2, 2019 | EN
Buddha with Acne Imagining the Buddha as a thing Of ugliness might help. Any insights Then might be less lovely. They might not sing Like anthems in a temple full of lights In polished candle holders. Beauty would Become beside the point. Revelation Would...
by phillipw | Nov 2, 2019 | MA, MO
Forever Abreast of Loveliness She knew the way to make us laugh, this clown From Beauty Land, and always made us smile Until she left to go where she came down From. Lips were always open, partly, while She looked at us—or rather at the lens That loved her almost...
by phillipw | Nov 2, 2019 | SU
The Sonnet of the Suicide Bombers Those star-mouthed virgins, crescent-moon-like holes ………………… Lit up beneath their veils, are licking words From Allah’s book to slime across our poles The moment we are martyrs. Softest curds...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2019 | CO, IM
African Supremacy If Africa had been the most advanced Of continents, then long before the West And Islam had invaded and entranced The Africans with two religions’ best Presuppositions, Africa just might Have colonized the rest of us. ...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2019 | TR
Trump Cards Made of Satin Let’s not be coarse or subtle, but some cloth Between, perhaps like raw silk with nubbles In warp and woof. Let’s use the wise god, Thoth, As guide so no one’s falseness troubles Debating of the truth. We need the strong Resilience of...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2019 | CO, ID, MA, PO
Ideals Are More Equal Ideals take over like a virus in Some minds. Disease of thought requires the pills Of fact-based rationality. The sin Of thinking based on higher thought makes ills In cultures and philosophy. The French Left wing refused to dally with the...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2019 | SO
Calm Down, Gautama: the Escape is Eternal I fabricate myself a Soul. It needs Much less than what religions would impose. This Soul of mine is limited. It heeds My own creation, not the rows and rows Of rules that random deities require. Instead it recognizes...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2019 | ET
In English a Double Positive is a Negative: Yeah, Right In Nietzsche’s thinking, joy dies and lives Again, again, again, and yet because It comes around eternally, he gives It an eternal life, and then a pause Of death, then life again, upraising in Its dying and...
