by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | EA
Indivisible 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 always swirled With everything including rocks and trees. An interpenetration with the whole Of all...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | AN, GR, PA, PH, ZE
Zeno of Elea “It is true greatness to have in one, the frailty of a man and the security of a god.” ~ Seneca as quoted by Bacon in Of Adversity Just one reality exists. The rest Subsists in falsity. A paradox Occurs in other thoughts, their falseness best...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | CH, GA, JI, KI, KY, RO, SC, SE, ST, UN, Uncategorized
G., C., A., and G. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He has an echo bone inside his chest. It sends its slight reverberations when His heart remembers, with a slight arrest Of breathing, kisses in...
by phillipw | Oct 22, 2025 | BI, FA, HU, Uncategorized
“New Year’s Day”; and “Poet Paradox Pushes away Opposition”—Two Unrelated Sonnets This is the 4,000th post of sonnets by Phillip Whidden on this website. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem New Year’s Day...
by phillipw | Oct 22, 2025 | DI, EM
The Gnome of Amherst Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem This gnome, who speaks in gnarled-down code and not In silk-like lengths in yarn (not knitted like The lines of others) and in which each knot She adds...
by phillipw | Oct 22, 2025 | DE, EA, LE
Iridescent Fate Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Our souls (which don’t exist) are like a moth Embossed with steel of pin behind the glass, Displays of them against a velvet cloth Too kind and soft for...
by phillipw | Oct 21, 2025 | LO, RE, RO, SE
Life, Love and Faith Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem To make a point of living is to miss The point. Just live and live. Just love and love. Those make the points. Just live to give that kiss, Lips,...
by phillipw | Oct 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Farts Club Band I’m not at all that sure that warmth from sun And warmth inside me when I think of you Are universal unity, that One In Eastern Thought. That Eastern thinking crew Might be quite right. I have my doubts. “Within You and without...
