by phillipw | Jan 10, 2019 | CH
In so Modest a Setting Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A giant diamond on a slender ring Of chrome is what he was. He showed the flash, Flash, flash of bevels, many, not like cheapo bling, But...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2018 | OR
ORPHEUS: Invisible Ivory Music Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ~ John Keats Herus Pamphilius claimed that Orpheus’s drifting soul, destined to be incarnated anew in some other physical form after he had died, elected to be born a swan so that...
by phillipw | Oct 20, 2018 | RE
That poem is a new world on your tongue. It is as if Jehovah spoke a sigh From somewhere in between your heart and lung, Or more like Aphrodite spread one thigh And opened up divinity for men, Or maybe inspiration rose up through your mind From guts and bones as...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2018 | AS
SOCIAL MEDIA: Ascension Let go. Let go the laptop and that phone, The iPad and the Instagram that bangs Away. Turn off the Twitter storm. Dethrone Technology and screens. Those Facebook fangs Are in you, worrying your mental throat Like some sophisticated pack of...
by phillipw | Oct 9, 2018 | S
Safe Spaces—“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” ~ ~ “When the Athenians sent leaders of their philosophy schools to Rome on an embassy in 155 BC, one of them, the sceptic Carneades, pleaded on one day for justice in politics, on the next day for injustice. Cato...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2018 | L
Death’s Lepidoptera Sample My face falls hard against the layered plush Cloth. Underneath is trapped his curly hair Inside a ziplock bag. My whiskers crush Themselves against the folded towel. A flare Of one immortal flame, this curl, or so it seems, The tress is not...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2018 | DE, LO
The Island of the Dead I sail to see the island of the dead. A stillness emanates from it across Its mist of waves. This quietude is spread...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2018 | P, PO
Poetry is Not the Lever and Fulcrum of Archimedes “The full-flowering Scottish tradition of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas was defeated when Scotland was defeated.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The Story of Poetry War changes poetry. Old English verse Had reached an apogee of...
