by phillipw | May 31, 2019 | LO
Three Words He said the words to me today, the ones We want to hear, the ones that every heart Grows ears for, and the source of benisons That all religions wish they could impart. He said them on the telephone, this first Time ever, yet they seemed as spit-warm true...
by phillipw | May 31, 2019 | SO
Melodies for Sonnets I searched the Web for melodies to singA sonnet to, and YouTube offered four.Four measley tunes for sonnets! Here’s the thing:I reckon at the very least that moreThan 40,000,000 sonnets will have beenComposed since Petrarch tidied up the formAnd...
by phillipw | May 30, 2019 | PR
“All His Biddings are Enablings ”* — The Higher View Jehovah is in charge. There’s nothing in Our universe outside His widest strength. He works mysteriously to counter sin; No agency, no matter to what length And what extremes it goes, escapes that reach. Negation of...
by phillipw | May 30, 2019 | PO
Seldom Pure and Never Simple: Fawlty Thoughts There’s freedom in the speaking of the truth. I know we’re not supposed to think that such A thing exists. It’s fashionably uncouth, Post-Modernism says, to use the crutch Of common sense. Too many minds have come With far...
by phillipw | May 30, 2019 | TR
RachelROBERT The ancient myths about strange beasts composedOf body parts from different creatures fillSome need inside the psyche. Boys enclosedInside a female body ache untilThey realize the truth about their sex.The suffering starts as if it’s just a bruise.It’s...
by phillipw | May 30, 2019 | LO
On Waves of Song Relief comes in as slowly as a tideOn gentle coasts but feels as urgent asThe tidal bore up Severn. Hope had diedUntil you spoke and now I feel like jazzIs jiving in my bones. The slowness cameBecause my heart was made of numbness, soMy blood required...
by phillipw | May 30, 2019 | DE
No One When you are dead, the violets will bloomIn quiet purple or in white. The yearsWill pass, will pass to centuries, and winters loomWith blossomed frost on window panes. The spheresAbove this world will spin and sweep untilEternity arrives and then perhapsThey...
by phillipw | May 29, 2019 | MO
Marilyn The radio announced that she was dead As flatly as a Stock Exchange report. My heart turned satin and began to shred And leaked out doom and beauty. In the court Of Heaven Gabriel reached up to wipe God’s eye and Jesus hid his face behind The bloodied robe of...
