by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | AN, GR, NE
Aspiring Gyre Held Together Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The triton seashells manifest as far More beautiful than Triton merman god Could ever be. Charonia, bizarre In shape and flare, a visual...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2026 | AB, YA
Purification Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bing Videos Perhaps I shouldn’t say cascading truth To you. Just now, though, love is all I grow, Not best for you today alone in youth But maybe best to ever...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2026 | DE, FA, LO
“O cursed spite, /That I ever was born” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Unless you are a Hamlet (not on stage But really royal, really real) surrounded by Reality complexly evil, rage Of wickedness around...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2026 | FR, SA
Ardent Anthesis Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He sublimates as if he is a monk In black and white (or gray), as if he swears Off ordinary life, as if life’s junk Is on Transfiguration’s Mount. Despair...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2026 | AB, AN, CH, CR, IN, NI, Sonnet, ST, YA
Slurs and Omissions Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You know what dreams are like, are like the white Of orchid petals, innocent above The scarlet rose, its stabbing thorns at height Of Lucifer before he...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2026 | AB, GA, HE, Ho, Sonnet
Sea Silk Creations Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It is as if true love is like the sea Silk fibers now so rare. The real omits Them if we do not weave an organdie Affection. Beds are full of...
by phillipw | Aug 24, 2026 | DO, TR
Ruthless Anti-social “more stout than his fellows” Daniel 7: 20 “Me Me Me tick hell טphart’s son” Daniel 5:25 Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We see a “man” who tarnishes true gold Which can’t be...
by phillipw | Aug 20, 2026 | AB, BE, DR, GE, SW, YA
Synthesis Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He sleeps away the German afternoon. He has to sleep because no friend will go To swim with him. Inside his dreams now swoon As if he swims with calm. Their...
