by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Harlequin Ruse Honeys Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Spun sugar on a five-star chef’s dessert Looks like romances sold at checkout tills In Walmart, women wanting needed spurt Of unattainables, not...
by phillipw | Nov 25, 2025 | CH, ST, Uncategorized
48 53 58 63…Februaries Schisms as Chasms Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The five-year gap between the times that you And I were born, our ages (ever spread) Will never be erased until the skew Of death...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2025 | IN, MA, WE
Epithalamium Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The love affair continued only long Enough to give him throbs, bypassing pain, (Yet pleasure’s pain). That pain was not as strong As stinging needle prick...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2025 | FU, SI, Uncategorized, WE
Unspoken Truths For Aunt Ruby, Uncle Hubert and Donald No words are spoken. Still this silence speaks, No silence in synapses. Thinking there Inside the minds waits. Patience slyly seeks For something, scarlet bliss or quiet blare Of revelation. Either one will...
by phillipw | Nov 23, 2025 | EN, Uncategorized
Golden and Silver Lights of the Inner Heaven of Dreams, Visions and Revelations Revelation Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.” ~ Sir Thomas...
by phillipw | Nov 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Youth Under the Steps of Lynn Wood Hall at Southern Missionary College The office underneath the steps was where We had our fun and where I felt my first Success that seemed complete, though I a tare Among the truer wheat. My little burst Of glory, small as cap gun...
by phillipw | Nov 22, 2025 | BU, CH, JA, MY, Uncategorized
Monks Near Bamboo Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bamboo is too exact for Japanese And Chinese mystics. Unimpeachable In perfect pipes, it bends in Buddha’s breeze. His wise enlightenment feels reachable...
by phillipw | Nov 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Family as Furniture Down Under * Assorted furniture is strewn around Our lives, our parents, uncles, cousins, aunts And siblings, sisters and half-sisters found (Along with those adopted) like the plants In pots among the brothers in our rooms. We take this all for...
