by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | BR, DO, FL, IV, LO, PH, RO, SI, SU, TI, TO, Uncategorized, WE, WO
Lone Ranger Sunshine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Some buttered beams of light assured him that His world was not just treacly tombstone jewels. The shafts were shining from a cowboy hat Of boyhood...
by phillipw | Oct 24, 2025 | FI, NE, PO, ST
“To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores”: My Hauling Work Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It is as if you pull upon a net And bring up starfish—and . . . with them the stars, The Pleiades, the seven stars...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | AU, DI, DO, EV, WI
Siniquity The cleansing of the temple and the deaths Of Ananias and Sapphira failed To scrub the world of all its worst bad breaths. Along came Donald tRUMP—and Hitler sailed To power. Pol Pot and Stalin rose to heights Of depths. Queen Mary burned the...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Indivisible Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In Eastern though a person’s loneliness Is linked with all the creatures in the world. Denying this just worsens loneliness. Your loneliness means you are...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | EA
Indivisible In Eastern though a person’s loneliness Is linked with all the creatures in the world. Denying this just worsens loneliness. Your loneliness means you are always swirled With everything including rocks and trees. An interpenetration with the whole Of all...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | AN, GR, PA, PH, ZE
Zeno of Elea “It is true greatness to have in one, the frailty of a man and the security of a god.” ~ Seneca as quoted by Bacon in Of Adversity Just one reality exists. The rest Subsists in falsity. A paradox Occurs in other thoughts, their falseness best...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | CH, GA, JI, KI, KY, RO, SC, SE, ST, UN, Uncategorized
G., C., A., and G. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He has an echo bone inside his chest. It sends its slight reverberations when His heart remembers, with a slight arrest Of breathing, kisses in...
by phillipw | Oct 22, 2025 | BI, FA, HU, Uncategorized
“New Year’s Day”; and “Poet Paradox Pushes away Opposition”—Two Unrelated Sonnets This is the 4,000th post of sonnets by Phillip Whidden on this website. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem New Year’s Day...
