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...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
All in One Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “such delight from the whole as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge The one is many. Starfish legs...
by phillipw | Nov 1, 2025 | DR, Uncategorized
Samadhi Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Sometimes as I drift idly on Walden Pond, I cease to live and begin to be.” ~ Henry David Thoreau As if in floating in between the sleep Of depths...
