by phillipw | Aug 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
What Religion Does “When Teng Yin-feng was about to die at Wutai, he said to the would-be mourners, ‘I have seen monks die sitting, and lying, but have any died standing?’ ‘Yes, some,’ they replied. ‘How about upside down?’ ‘Never heard of such a...
by phillipw | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Different Slant The ancient Chinese poets had no room In lines for love (romantic love), for love With hairy sex thrown in, but if a groom Lives long enough with bride, that love’s above The raunchy stuff so lines can be about It. Even then the facts...
by phillipw | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Strange Clubless Club The ancient Chinese poets thought that sex With love was not poetic, not between A man and woman. That was more like hex Than beauty. Married love was more their scene Because in it they didn’t have to deal With body parts. I...
by phillipw | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Revelation of Justice Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If monks can turn a toothache or the bray Of donkey’s throat to something mystic, that Does not imply that you can say, Cassandra-like, the...
by phillipw | Aug 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Immaculate Conception Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The East concluded that the point of Mind Is not Socratic pathways’ patterns, but Instead their opposite. The point is blind Acceptance of a...
by phillipw | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
All in the Head He likes it when he’s swallowed, swallowed down Inside, the way that Shakespeare puts his mind Beyond himself to be the beer-drunk clown, Or be the witch-fooled king, or be as blind As Queen Macbeth in madness. Poets need This...
by phillipw | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Etiquette for Using Cell Phones and Mobile Phones Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Don’t send a text before you call to see If such is inconvenient. After all Convenience for the caller is the be All and...
by phillipw | Aug 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
What the Seeker for the Truth Must Sell Sell all you have and give the proceeds to The poor? The poor in what? The poor in mind And spirit? Or perhaps we misconstrue The Gospel. Only Christians seem too blind To see the truth about the riches of The world. They...
