by phillipw | Dec 25, 2025 | SN
The Truth Floats More Like Murk Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contempverse morary odern poem contemporary poem In the evening mist the frogs are loud. ~ Yamabe Akahito The mist that rises from the water lures The sentimental mind to turn to wings Of...
by phillipw | Dec 25, 2025 | FU, HE, SE
Pistol Clear Beneath the Branches of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Adam knew Eve his wife, and . . .” Genesis 4:1 In autumn nights the waters of the stream Are...
by phillipw | Dec 24, 2025 | LO, RO, Uncategorized
“Let no man wait within” ~ Thomas Merton He does not need to swallow bombs. He’s loved Enough. They taught him worse than Molotov Combustions. Those he loved . . . rejected, shoved Or silently exploded, “Bugger off.” He chewed on fuses. They of course did what A...
by phillipw | Dec 23, 2025 | BO
After the Sposalizio de Mare The tedium of Tuesday; echoes heard in a Shop in Kyoto. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] Slow days occur, not just in Titusville But in Kyoto, cherry petaled time Well past. The monks are used to thinking, still In meditation...
by phillipw | Dec 23, 2025 | JO, SU
The Ocean of Seasons Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another.” ~ Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors Throughout the seasons water drips. In...
by phillipw | Dec 23, 2025 | MY
“We see into the life of things” ~ William Wordsworth The I is interpenetrated with The I of you and me, the cosmos, whole Throughout. Religions perpetrate this myth And it appears again, again. The thought of soul Crops up in almost every creed, in all Of them...
by phillipw | Dec 22, 2025 | AS, DE, FA, RE
Nothing is Cleaner Gone Than Yesterdays Slower days passing— Gathering up—distant Are things of the past. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] Not anything comes slower than the past. The distance of all yesterdays is huge, More distant than the Milky Way is...
by phillipw | Dec 21, 2025 | PE
The Forbidden Fruit Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A scholar says that opened eyes of Eve And Adam show them they are naked, maimed By knowledge of their parts. (Snakes deceive, No shocker there.) The...
