by phillipw | Oct 31, 2019 | CL
Climate, Strange Can you remember when the daffodils Meant spring was on the way? Each yellow drift Beside the bank or just beneath the hill’s Slope gave the eye and soul a gold bright lift. That doesn’t happen now. We remember How promise of revival made us new...
by phillipw | Oct 31, 2019 | GR
Everlasting Loop of Covetousness We want eternity to stretch out more, To be extended past infinity. We want our human, tattered, pulsing core To break the boundaries of divinity. The gods of many faiths have died. They used To be immortal. They are now as dead As...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | MA
Skateboarding and the Unsolved Equation You know how young guys are. They move their arms Uncertainly but certainly and mean To look as if they comprehend. The harms Just round the bend are what they haven’t seen. The shoulders move, too, with those...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | NO
Hair Penetrating Hair Why men grow strands in noses is beyond Me, frightfully unsightly as it is. I can’t imagine anyone who’s fond Of ugliness like that. I mean, Gee Whiz, It’s sexy as a witch’s withered tit And yet the ones who fancy men must put Up with the...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | CH, ST
On Passing the Orthodox Blue Dome with the Gold Stars that Used to Remind me of _____ An emptiness so empty it contains As little as in space between hot stars, Or almost less, this vacancy retains Not even light, this void that leaves dark scars Across the...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | DE, LU
The Gemini Known as All/Most Loves Are Lost Most loves are lost the moment they are born. Their DNA contains the genes to doom Devotion. Bonded chromosomes are torn, Though only slightly. They become love’s tomb As well, simultaneous the death and birth. Invisible,...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | CH, ST
A Pre-echo from Before the Time When All the Sons of God Shouted for Joy A perfect piece where every chord and note Is played by perfect hands, you are the whole Perfection music always wants the throat To fill, a melody that must unscroll In air inevitably. ...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | DE
The Zero beyond Omega My friend has entered something like a sphere, A universe as unified as God In green Jehovah’s Witness Bibles. Fear Is absent there, but so is love. It’s fraud To say it’s something else, some pleasant place Of solitude and quietness. It’s...
