by phillipw | Sep 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Smoke of Their Torment Ascendeth Up For Ever and Ever Like Incense to the Nostrils of Jesus Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Religions’ basso ostinato, drones, Those undercurrents are of dread. The...
by phillipw | Sep 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Resonating Through The part of truth that matters is not part, But whole. A part of truth is goodness, yet That’s like a lovely body lacking heart, More like a corpse, a mango seeping blet. If truth has beauty in it, that is not Enough, the way that...
by phillipw | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
“soft, gentle and low” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The time of Lear, a darkness like the piths Of blackness in the innards of those oaks Unopened for four hundred years, the myths He lived in...
by phillipw | Sep 4, 2025 | AL, DA, HI
Adolf Chewing on Heinrich How long the evil in your life will stretch Beyond your death you cannot know. Your deeds Will find a living tombstone where they etch Your message planted there among the weeds Of time, perhaps eternity. Perhaps The tongues of angels...
by phillipw | Sep 3, 2025 | HE, LO, MU, PA
Widespread Love Those lovers who love love are killers of It often, often as Black Widows eat The eagerness and guts of males who love Them, giving up their sperm and lives, complete The sacrifice to love and life. Love such As this is like Medea’s,...
by phillipw | Sep 3, 2025 | DE, LI, LO, LY, SO, ST
Never Mind Astrophel and Stella Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem http://www.phillipwhidden.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/star-exploding-208576_large.mp4 If sonnets are supposed to be about Love,...
by phillipw | Sep 2, 2025 | LO, SE
Never Still but Still How dangerous a poet set in Zen Might be is shown: erased Komachi mossed In centuries knowing all too well how men And women lose their love, how love is lost In bed — and everywhere, in incense burned More hotly than their lovers’ bodies...
by phillipw | Sep 1, 2025 | JA, ME, PO, WA
Ono no Komachi Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Ono no Komachi – Wikipedia Imagine thinking of a man’s love like The petals and the fragrance of a flower As it is wilting, or a white love...
