by phillipw | Nov 10, 2025 | SY, Uncategorized
Delicate Neon ⁷ He never saw gray eyes though they are sung In praise. Telemachus’ and wisdom’s eyes, Athena’s, Homer chanted from his tongue Yet reverenced. Ancient lines, still, alchemize The silver grays, presenting them as facts Of...
by phillipw | Nov 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Fly? Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem No, you will never know the thousand hints That he would send you, wrong and silent type That he insists on being. Sonnet glints Among his messaging? Well, no. The...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Parthenon by Ictinus, Callicrates and Phidias Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “With the soul’s awakening, direction, too, first reaches living expression,–Classical expression in steady...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | CH
Directions to Nowhere The “Chinese in free, hither and thither wandering that nevertheless goes to the goal; Egyptian in resolute march down the path once entered.” ~ Oswald Spengler, “Symbolism and Space,” IV The Chinese being Oriental flop About in mists’...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | AL, CA, LE, SU, TH
Single-mindedness “Five times as warm, and five times as cold, just as I am five times as rich as you are, and five times as clever.” ~ The Red Queen The old pond; A frog jumps in — The sound of the water. Basho, Translated by R.H. Blyth There’s nothing that...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | SO
Heating for the Poor Deplorables Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouses as from rich man’s abode.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden That university...
by phillipw | Nov 4, 2025 | RH, SC
Line from Woodnotes I Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bing Videos The weakness of “departed lover” in The line is maybe only slightly weak, Not weak enough to be condemned as sin, But weak is weak. When...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | NO, PA
Nonko, a Seventeenth-century Ceramicist Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The black bat makes its sounds beyond my ears, A pitch too high for human nerves to hear, But, is there, like ultraviolet tears From...
