by phillipw | Dec 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Middle Eastern Fan not Japanese: Palistrophes Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Book of Genesis is like a fan, A fan made up of fans, of foreign fans Within one spreading fan. Thus life began In...
by phillipw | Dec 17, 2025 | CI
Circle Set of Circles Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The snowdrop is the spring, the daffodil The trumpet spring . . . and peony the full Completion: birth, then childhood and the spill Of life in...
by phillipw | Dec 17, 2025 | PO, SO
Manna Language Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem This speaking of a sentence made of lines, Of gems and lines and sonnets, is his way. He tried the normal way but life had mines And not the diamond...
by phillipw | Dec 17, 2025 | DE, Uncategorized
Rigor Mortis: Religions Remain Rigidly Wrong Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The list that life provides is brief, not strange. It’s ultra certain: two its items. One Need not be named. The other one...
by phillipw | Dec 16, 2025 | WH
Facing Facts about Postal Delivery Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If he should send a letter home, no good Would come of it. Home vanished long ago So even if a loving letter could Be posted, it would...
by phillipw | Dec 16, 2025 | CA, PR
Art and Music Asleep He lies stretched out, as stretched as white coast strands On Caribbean beaches, but though stretched He lies as calm as palm tree islands’ sands. His calm is comfort, watercolor sketched In softness, softer than an etching’s...
by phillipw | Dec 16, 2025 | MU, PH, PO, RE
Post-meaningism in Seventeenth-century Japan, Never Mind the Pythia Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Do not follow in the footsteps of the Ancients; seek what they sought.” ~ Bashô If no one follows...
by phillipw | Dec 15, 2025 | CH, ST, Uncategorized, WH, WO
Not a Care in the World Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Why hast thou dsquieted me, to bring me up? ~ 1 Samuel 28:15 A mother doesn’t wait. She dies. She goes Before, though after father. Both are...
