by phillipw | Aug 6, 2019 | DI
For Pati I look upon my life like Disneyworld. In Disney’s realm the days are sunny stark, Or when it rains the wigs still stay stiff, twirled In spite of the humidity. The park In evening’s brilliant, too, since Klieg lights blare Away what darkness that sneaks in...
by phillipw | Aug 6, 2019 | LO
Sentimentality A sadness in his face that isn’t dark But maybe contemplation of pale things Like loss of love not worthy of remark Because it’s past and now has purple wings, No longer scarlet, settles in his eyes. His forehead, veiled with curls,...
by phillipw | Aug 5, 2019 | CU
Two Sides of One Channel, Sea, or Ocean A strand, another strand, two banks of one Wide river separate — but offer more. Exotic poetry entails a sun Unseen until the poems reach the foreign shore Across the currents of division. Then The poets there, beyond the...
by phillipw | Aug 4, 2019 | AN, PR
The Creator and Destroyer God He came at last from nowhere, almost, dark His absence and his motives, like a djinn Who hid away inside a rudeness, stark With silence made of sulk or worse. Like sin He perpetrated punishment, a dumb Revenge for something that was...
by phillipw | Aug 2, 2019 | HE, ME, PH
The Incensing Mystic Power of Philetadas The slipperiest of Gods is Hermes, known As Mercury to Romans, he with wings On ankles and on head. This God was prone To really hard erections. Stony Things Were carved on statues of him in the Greece Of Alcibiades. One...
by phillipw | Aug 1, 2019 | CH, ST
Made Unique by God the Father and Son Almighty: the First Day and the Sixth He had a head so full of dawns that God Must clearly have been there when it was made. Another reason was that he was odd. That also showed divinity had played A kneeling part in his creation...
by phillipw | Jul 31, 2019 | CA
Delights of Owning Cats The joys of owning cats or being owned By them are many, multifarious. Your house is eau de cologned With tomcat sprayings from the various Invaders through the cat flap, neighbourhood Intruders for widened territory. Humans who love the...
by phillipw | Jul 31, 2019 | AU
The Calmer Autumn Colors Range The calmer autumn colors range along Wide walkways of the city parks. The greens Predominate. We forget that their strong Insistence is the background to the scenes That poets paint about the season. Bold Explosions of a brigher...
