by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | ST
Religious Fanaticism The whore-like magnetism of a god Is lurking on the corner for those fools Who have that weakness. Consciences are awed By come-ons utilizing sexy tools Like mysticism, scripture texts employed As mesmerism, asceticism For feeling guilt for...
by phillipw | Oct 29, 2019 | KE, PO
The Political Poet I really LUV the way they try to see A poet’s politics. The latest life Of Keats puts forward a pitiful plea To think of him as if the loving strife Inside him isn’t quite the point. His heart And lungs were doomed and we’re supposed to care...
by phillipw | Oct 29, 2019 | WH, Y
The Poet at 26 The miracle is that once I was a young Man. Innocence was colored gold and white Then. I was living like an angel’s tongue Before the fall of Lucifer, as bright As tongues could be in heaven with its gem Foundations and transparent...
by phillipw | Oct 29, 2019 | UN
The UNITary God: According to the Bible & the Qu‛ran, Jesus and Adam Are Male* If God be single & has lasted since E-t-e-r-n-i-t-y, this means we have to ask, “Just how did this completely lonely Prince Live up to that start-less, limitless...
by phillipw | Oct 21, 2019 | WH, WI, WO
Father’s Voice I can’t remember what my father said Except when he was storytelling, or Declaiming poetry, or when his head Was full of politics or God. His store Of beauty came in tales, or ringing lines Of loveliness and joy, and plots he spun, And...
by phillipw | Oct 20, 2019 | AR, MO
Arthur Moody He used to play ice hockey at John Nike The leisure center here in Berkshire where That sort of thing went on. This boy was like A miracle because I couldn’t square His clear intelligence with something dumb Like sport. But then the only reason...
by phillipw | Oct 20, 2019 | CH, ST
The Landscape of Love “all things to rive the heart are here, and all are vain” ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road, 147 All things to rive the heart are here, and all Are vain. What trees there were have shed their bark And leaves and blooms. It is the...
by phillipw | Oct 19, 2019 | AR
Sonnets for Computers ARTificial Intelligence When Alan Turing did an interview About computers way back when, he said That they could do whatever we can do, Most likely… yep, what any human head Can handle. Pressed by that reporter, he Insisted, yes, these...
