by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | AN
Before Bronze A feeling like a dizziness, or weak Unease, a nausea of paleness, or A seasickness experienced on sleek Internal waves swells up inside my core When suddenly I try to comprehend The eons lost before us. Ancient Rhodes Was ancient long before its...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | MO
.. The Heavy Truth: Monolithic Mohammad Mohammad is impiety made flesh. He dares to say he worships the same God As Jews and Christians–but rejects the mesh Of other Holy Scriptures and assumes they’re flawed. He overrides their teachings and their words...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | CH, ST
Dessication: A Final Farewell I spoke your name this morning, but the air Remained unmoved despite the fact my head Was lying just above your lock of hair. I spoke your name last night while on my bed Where just beneath my pillow I have stored The...
by phillipw | Oct 12, 2019 | SA, Uncategorized
Resurrection near Crucifixion As near as Cana was to fasting in The desert, that is truth. As near as wine And bread to Calvary—such is the skin ………. Of beauty stretched on flesh. These facts define The absolutes. Beside the drinking of The...
by phillipw | Oct 11, 2019 | DR
Trumpet Cries Our dreams are tinctured with divinity. A poet or a genius seizes them And recognizes their affinity To dawn. A lover leans to touch the hem That passes by her in her crippled need. Philosophers, Hypatia-like, reveal Inherent beauties like a knowing...
by phillipw | Oct 11, 2019 | ME, WH
The Windows The windows, shining in an afternoon Long lost, a light of long lost boyhood day, Let in enough of childhood sun to spoon Some beams of beauty for the lad. The stray Shafts through abandoned panes were just enough. His eye fell on the toy...
by phillipw | Oct 11, 2019 | LO
Love Making, in Tenses Yes, I believe in evolution. That’s an Opening of something that is rolled Out, scroll-like; I have now become the man That mother’s egg and father’s seed foretold. Yes, everything I grew was first implied When one tailed sperm broke through...
by phillipw | Oct 11, 2019 | PO, PO
Poetry, the Encyclopedia: Hesiod, St. Luke and St. Paul About eight hundred years before the first Of Christian poetry (Magnificat And Paul on Charity) there came a burst Of hatred from a crofter in a spat Hesiod? About his brother, verses filled with bile For...
