by phillipw | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Human Eyes Must Glare Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Our most important goal is adding strength To feebleness, our own. If destiny Is rigid, weaklings wait. Then cladding strength (Our...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2025 | NE, PS, RE, SU
As Close as Your Father Inside You Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Those things we fail to meld organic in Our lives may well come back to marrow-haunt Us. Since these issues have been stored within...
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2025 | BA, HE, SE, WI, WO
Annette Vallon, Romantic Poetry and Heterosexuality Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “And ’tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.” ~ William Wordsworth, “Lines Written in Early...
by phillipw | Jul 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
One The logic (?) of the East where everything Is One turns every ancient Holy Word To sludge made up of One, archangel wing Is garbage dump, Upanishads are turd. Primordial the Wise Ones of the East Were onto something accidentally. Each...
by phillipw | Jul 6, 2025 | Uncategorized
Below the Lower Edge Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Of course a man can engineer a trance Inside his mind, a chemical event Within synapses. He has every chance— As history, the saints and mystics...
by phillipw | Jun 19, 2025 | BU, SA
Sacred Blah Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The pain, the pain, the pain caused Buddha to Withdraw from lfe, the tawdriness of rows Of shops in nowhere tows, the pious queue To plead...
by phillipw | Jun 19, 2025 | BU
Heavens of Hiroshima, Nirvanas of Nagasaki Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Buddhist statues offer only bronze Or stone, whatever. They refuse to aid— They can’t. They’re wood and gilt. A temple...
by phillipw | Jun 18, 2025 | PE
Brevard County in March before the Tracts of Residential Invasions Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “every tree that is pleasant” Eau de Cologne impérial, Guerlain (1860) The essence of one hundred...