by phillipw | Oct 14, 2019 | BU, LO
We Met at the Caledonian Hotel in the West End The Royal Mile is John Knox’s creed, Yet strict stone Edinburgh has the pinks, The lavenders, and blues which lovers need When springtime Presbyterian day winks To twilight. Grayness overawes the eyes Until the sun is...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2019 | CH, FR, ST, TR
Lament for a Tree Surgeon .. I dip my heart in elegy and write, A pen held firmly by the hand of grief. Encyclopedic is the size and height Of this my undertaking. Turn a leaf Of it forever and my sorrow will Have just begun. A hundred trillion trees Can fall to...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2019 | CH, ST
Blood’s Bitonality I know that you are heartbeats at my core But more than that my feelings are impure. Are you the syncopation in the score My veins are writing, or are you the cure For music’s failure? Are you maybe meant As perfect rhythm and this harmony...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2019 | AC, FR, MO
Achilles Named Prophetically One writer has proposed his name must mean The “lipless” one. How strange. Or is that weird? Despite Homeric speeches there’s not been A record of his words. His nascent beard Is what we can infer beneath his nose. The rest is...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2019 | GA, PA
The Second Coming Perversions like when violence becomes Male bravery are worst. When honor slides To murder beaten into shape by drums, Then whitest principle on horseback rides Across the Muslim children in a ward. The Holocaust stalks from the Temple Mount And...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | BR, WH
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | AL
Thucydides: “Because of the Human Thing” We forecast both the worst and best because Of the human thing settled in the crux. Set there like some sapphire to master laws This thing assures the rigid rule of flux Or many faceted uncertainty. This gemstone...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | RI, VE
If Only Someone Had Sent Verlaine Arthur’s High School Report The perfect monster that he grew to be Attained its zenith lacking moons and stars In London. He went on a hateful spree, Campaigning there to gouge his man with scars External and internal, both in...
