by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | AB, LU, YA
Paris, not Berlin, is Called the City of Lights Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The silence that you forced upon me shows Me that I do not need you as my wife Or spouse, whatever. Truth about that grows...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | AL, TE, TW, Uncategorized
Beyond Christian Morals “We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.” ~ Sir Thomas Browne Send out your sails from far inside your soul. Prepare their ships for winds to take you far Away from moored up human heart, its shoal Of shallowness, beyond the safest...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | AE, BE, ES, Uncategorized
In Met Miss Universe in a Diamond Tiara Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The butterfly flapped Away, was gone. My spirit Came back inside me. ~ Wafû The way a comet feels the pull of weight In weightless...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | RE
In Sum Religion is a deaf and dumb and blind Predicter. It pretends — but that is all. Its walking cane is white and red. Its mind Sees less than canes, its hearing aid too small To hear beyond the grave. Religion speaks. That’s true, but backward like an...
by phillipw | Nov 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
Breakthrough Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The desire of the body is real desire, what God desires and this desire must seep through, break through from the body into the reluctant mind. “The...
by phillipw | Nov 2, 2025 | OM
He Always, Always, Always Felt the Pain Upon the Cross and in the Life of Unnumbered Creatures like You Even in the mind Of the mindless one Arises grief When the snipe wings up In the autumn evening. ~ Saigyō, translated by R. H. Blyth If, as the theologians say,...
by phillipw | Nov 2, 2025 | AM, DE, PO
Poetry Means Irradiated Mist and Not Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The point of poetry is mist inside The mind. The poetry itself is not A smog but poetry requires its bride To wear a veil. What...
by phillipw | Nov 2, 2025 | MY
Traherne and Buddha Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When he was born, the Buddha spoke, “Above The heavens and below them only I Am” looked up on, “the Honored One.” In love Of principles of peace, he...
