by phillipw | Oct 29, 2025 | BR, CO, DE, DI, MA, WH
Stepping Into the Ambulance that Would Take Her to the Thames Valley Hospice Margaret Arbuckle Paterson Graham Whidden When I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ~ Shakespeare, Othello “Courage is life, living. Life is change; change is suffering; the will to...
by phillipw | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bravery “When Raleigh sailed into Cadiz, and all the forts and ships opened fire on him at once, he scorned to shoot again, and made an answer with a flourish of insulting trumpets.” Robert Louis Stevenson, “The English Admirals” Since life is mathematics, life...
by phillipw | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Ghost Town Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When we came back to Titusville, it seemed Quite small, a tatty miniature like scenes In matchstick hobby art and only dreamed, Unfinished, by the...
by phillipw | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
What Sought You Thus Afar? Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Could twelve-streets Titusville, that little town Grow groves of sonnets and of poetry? Each larger, richer city wore a crown, Those places...
by phillipw | Oct 27, 2025 | AD, BR, CH, CR
“One world at a time” ~ Henry David Thoreau Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Crown of thorns with breathing diamonds Too many of the world’s religions, faiths, Philosophies (like Buddha’s) spurn square...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Your Voice Your voice is joy to me. Your voice is more Than joy. Your voice is more than ecstasy. Your voice is more than plainsong. Let it pour Through me as arias, as if the sea Of love itself gushed glaringly in chords, And notes, and more than melodies, in...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Gate to Lucifer’s Paradise Lighting one candle With another man’s candle˸ An evening in spring. ~ Buson Instead of all those candles at the Gate’s Love Feast, white wax, flamed wicks among the fruit, And challah bread implying mystic states (Agape love), I spied a...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Greedy Black Hole Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” ~ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, scene 1 She often whined to ears beside...
