by phillipw | Dec 26, 2025 | AS, MY, OR, PH, RE, Uncategorized
The Citrus Grove Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “root and all” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson If you can see a perfect orange bloom, As most such blossoms are, and see them on Their darkling orange branch, and...
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2025 | AU, BL, WI
Reduced to Perfect Expansion — Grammar for Mystics Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It’s quite a trap, you know, this seeing of The universe contained within a grain Of sand, the sending of a thought above...
by phillipw | Dec 25, 2025 | DE, RO, SE
That Deeper Calendar Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The songs of love live stronger than the songs Of seasons. Lancelots and Guineveres Go singing through the souls. Their love belongs In every age,...
by phillipw | Dec 25, 2025 | SN
The Truth Floats More Like Murk Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contempverse morary odern poem contemporary poem In the evening mist the frogs are loud. ~ Yamabe Akahito The mist that rises from the water lures The sentimental mind to turn to wings Of...
by phillipw | Dec 25, 2025 | FU, HE, SE
Pistol Clear Beneath the Branches of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Adam knew Eve his wife, and . . .” Genesis 4:1 In autumn nights the waters of the stream Are...
by phillipw | Dec 24, 2025 | LO, RO, Uncategorized
“Let no man wait within” ~ Thomas Merton He does not need to swallow bombs. He’s loved Enough. They taught him worse than Molotov Combustions. Those he loved . . . rejected, shoved Or silently exploded, “Bugger off.” He chewed on fuses. They of course did what A...
by phillipw | Dec 23, 2025 | BO
After the Sposalizio de Mare The tedium of Tuesday; echoes heard in a Shop in Kyoto. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] Slow days occur, not just in Titusville But in Kyoto, cherry petaled time Well past. The monks are used to thinking, still In meditation...
by phillipw | Dec 23, 2025 | JO, SU
The Ocean of Seasons Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another.” ~ Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors Throughout the seasons water drips. In...
