by phillipw | Oct 31, 2025 | SE
Simplify, Simplify, Simplify, not Saint Inland Taipan Aquinas “People all over the world try to know what they do not know, instead of trying to know what they already know.” ~ Sôshi (translated by R. H. Blyth) When true simplicity is won, we know The truths we need...
by phillipw | Oct 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Archeology of the Mind Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The deeper and more intimate a spiritual communion, the more readily it dispenses with signs and linkages through waking...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2025 | CH, DA
Darwin as Dominie There’s really no such thing as self-control, Free will and all that sort of thing. The brain Has hormones in it. It is like a bowl With soup and spices in it. Hormones stain Us where they spill. They want to be free will. At least they’re...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2025 | DO, TR, Uncategorized
Upstart Creator Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You may not be the Godhead, but you might Be sensible, some Little Red Hen. Make Your world a better place for some despite Cupidity and selfishness...
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...
