by phillipw | Oct 27, 2025 | AD, BR, CH, CR
“One world at a time” ~ Henry David Thoreau Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Crown of thorns with breathing diamonds Too many of the world’s religions, faiths, Philosophies (like Buddha’s) spurn square...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Your Voice Your voice is joy to me. Your voice is more Than joy. Your voice is more than ecstasy. Your voice is more than plainsong. Let it pour Through me as arias, as if the sea Of love itself gushed glaringly in chords, And notes, and more than melodies, in...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Gate to Lucifer’s Paradise Lighting one candle With another man’s candle˸ An evening in spring. ~ Buson Instead of all those candles at the Gate’s Love Feast, white wax, flamed wicks among the fruit, And challah bread implying mystic states (Agape love), I spied a...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Greedy Black Hole Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” ~ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, scene 1 She often whined to ears beside...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | BR, DO, FL, IV, LO, PH, RO, SI, SU, TI, TO, Uncategorized, WE, WO
Lone Ranger Sunshine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Some buttered beams of light assured him that His world was not just treacly tombstone jewels. The shafts were shining from a cowboy hat Of boyhood...
by phillipw | Oct 24, 2025 | FI, NE, PO, ST
“To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores”: My Hauling Work Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It is as if you pull upon a net And bring up starfish—and . . . with them the stars, The Pleiades, the seven stars...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | AU, DI, DO, EV, WI
Siniquity The cleansing of the temple and the deaths Of Ananias and Sapphira failed To scrub the world of all its worst bad breaths. Along came Donald tRUMP—and Hitler sailed To power. Pol Pot and Stalin rose to heights Of depths. Queen Mary burned the...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Indivisible Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In Eastern though a person’s loneliness Is linked with all the creatures in the world. Denying this just worsens loneliness. Your loneliness means you are...
