by phillipw | Apr 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Beauty and Truth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I have never seen a man who loved virtue as much as he loved beauty.” ~ Confucius Men love the truth . . . perhaps . . . if...
by phillipw | Apr 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Black, Not Shining, Yet the Truth Strikes Through Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The tiny fly or wasp-like beast walks six Legs straight across my screens, computer’s, then My phone’s. He pauses for a...
by phillipw | Apr 16, 2024 | EI, PR, WH
Above the Big Old White-paged Bible She Held, Though Below It Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem She did not have to breathe. Why breathe when lungs Were lifted into visions and in trance With Christ and...
by phillipw | Apr 12, 2024 | CR, MA, ME, VI
Damned Quixote Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When William Blake went mad, it was his soul That drove him to it. It was far too straight, As straight as light, unerring in its goal When...
by phillipw | Apr 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Sea of Floating Crystal Balls Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The reason poetry has always been Required is that most people lack the power To spell out utterness as perfect kin To Tuesday nights,...
by phillipw | Apr 9, 2024 | CO, PU, SN
Meaningless in French Restaurants With grace in every part the snail moves, fast Like all perfections, fast in nature, form And beauty. Snails do not want meanings vast And mystical. The snail is not a warm Enlightenment from Zen, sparros picked By Christ for...
by phillipw | Apr 8, 2024 | AN, GR, JA, MO, RO
I Canali, un Pranzo, il Arsenale Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Romans, Japanese and Greeks once had A reverence, religious in a calm Way, quiet, for the clockwork things, the sad (The...
by phillipw | Apr 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Chalk Hill Blue and Duke of Burgundy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Eyes need to let the butterflies go in And settle where they will inside the chest Or brain, in memory, or spread wings within The...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Cleopas, His Friends, and the Stranger with Disappearing Powers “and he vanished” ~ Luke 24 The day was ending. Evening was about To settle in. They asked a man to stay And eat with them. The twilight suffered rout Because he raised his hands. Dark leapt away. They...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Undarked Revelation Ottawa physicist challenges dark matter’s existence, doubles universe’s age (msn.com) No dark, dark matter can be found inside The universe though stars swell vast beyond Imagining. The cosmos being wide Enough to...
by phillipw | Mar 26, 2024 | BO, CH
The Boy Jesus When Not Working in the Carpenter Shop Unthinking grace is like a child at play. The hummingbird in hover, April flight, Does not consider gracefulness in sway Of gorgeousness or whether beauty’s height Is being skated through the blossom air. The cat...
by phillipw | Mar 24, 2024 | SH
Shakespeare of the Dogberries Spite’s Shakespeare almost always forced to dinge The lower levels of society. When Cleopatra, though, is on the fringe Of death, she gets plain words, sobriety, From Iras saying simply that “bright day Is done and we are...
by phillipw | Mar 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Stones of Venice Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We call the blinds Venetian but of course If opened they don’t yield Venetian views. They block the sight of English boredom, force Much...
by phillipw | Mar 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Amorino Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I loved to buy the things that she deserved, Venetian and Parisian in style, The Positano, surcoat-like coat served With jewellery...
by phillipw | Mar 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
All Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin” ~ William Shakespeare, Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida Electron microscopes can...
by phillipw | Mar 18, 2024 | BR, DE, OR, TI
Winged Deer Tongue on a Sunless Tuesday Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Deer tongue leaves The local council mowed the grass along The edge where buses come and go. My scooter drives me past and...
by phillipw | Mar 17, 2024 | AR, CH, ET, FR
Étude in C Minor, Opus 25 no. 12 with Porphyry Shouts Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Chopin étude rams the room with power, Arpeggios that swamp and swamp, then swamp The purple, pulsing chords,...
by phillipw | Mar 17, 2024 | CA, FL, SI, WH, WI, WO
As Dead As Sabbath-keeping Saints Columba and Patrick on Their Long Lost Shores Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I cannot quite call back to mind and heart My father’s voice, not even when he told...
by phillipw | Mar 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Day before the Great God’s Sabbath Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “By meer playing go to Heaven” ~ Henry Vaughan (April 17, 1621 – April 23, 1695) My brothers, cousins (I, too) went...
by phillipw | Mar 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Stalking My Prospero does not need Plato’s thought Or Jesus’s. No Buddha is required. My cat ignores the mouse that he just caught, Walks past it where it, crumpled, lies expired, Ignores it since it isn’t any fun Once crushed. It isn’t that he...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2024 | GE, MA, QU, Ta
A Twenty-eight Year Old Baker Boy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We go to evensong and never think Of Tankerfield, not once. The anthems rise More jasmine-like than incense — not the stink Of...
by phillipw | Mar 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Small Carved Ivory Spheres Inside of Small Carved Ivory Spheres Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I’m fearful for I’m coming to the last Crammed pages in my last book by the man Who long...
by phillipw | Mar 9, 2024 | FI, Uncategorized
Remember Life and Death Are Indivisible — and That Means One Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem First poems — and the last — let each one seize. If it’s the first, make sure...
by phillipw | Mar 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Secular Satori Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “a chance to live in the eternal world now, in ‘Eternity’s glad sunrise.’ ” R. H. Blyth, Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics p....
by phillipw | Mar 5, 2024 | EN, SA
After Prolonged Dark Moving Hours His life is opened by the sight of dawn, One dawn unlike the others as the sun Predicts itself before the sunrise drawn By something more than splendor, night outrun By waking in eternity of sky, A realm that never knows horizon or A...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Fringe Benefits I Called Him for the White Fuzz Decorations on the Edges of Black Ears Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In garden ground there just behind my house Is where we buried Bene in a box...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Greyfriars’ Bobby Notwithstanding Let others mourn when we have died, when I Have died, if that is what their inner selves Require. Some humans may decide to cry Yet cool in sepulchres along the shelves Are jars that hold the final outcome to Such tears. Black...
by phillipw | Mar 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Prospero and Death Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When Prospero with black and white fur, pink Of nose and subtle green his staring eye Greets God and Christ, he’ll meet them...
by phillipw | Mar 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Compassing the Truth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Suffer the little children” ~ Jesus Christ If you are tempted to fly up to truth, Consider bending down instead where you Might find a...
by phillipw | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Magnolia x Soulangeana Floral Deposits Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The buds that die before they blossom fall On asphalt and the common. Even pinks, The whispered stripes of pinks are...
by phillipw | Feb 29, 2024 | MO, NE, SA, Uncategorized, UR
Tiny Moons of Neptune and Uranus in Humans’ Unimagined Years-long Hours Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The news is that “new tiny moons” have been Discovered near far giant planets made Of gas, past...
by phillipw | Feb 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Everest and Oceans Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Because I have you, now I want to climb Among the mountains known as love, the peaks That glisten with romance and hear the chime Of...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Moon’s Climb Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The purpose of the moon is not to rise At twilight or to signal start of night, To mark the end the day or make more wise The half light of...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2024 | FR, MA
Father and Friendship My father, he believed in friendship, so Much so he called his two first sons the names Of closest, most beloved of friends. Forgo The family obligations, family claims, Cut straight to purer love than heirdom’s weight, A nobler...
by phillipw | Feb 24, 2024 | BO
Inklings of Immortality Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Perhaps these stones are where the gods sit when We spend mere time away from boulders, waste Our spirits. Rocks like these wait not...
by phillipw | Feb 24, 2024 | EX
Destruction of Nihilism Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The silence of the flowers is heard by ears Inside the ribcage, there inside curved bones, Their marrow. Silence of the flowers...
by phillipw | Feb 23, 2024 | EN, SA
In the Woodland This moment, then another, cherry trees Experience a lifted limb, their blooms Go up and down. A blast of wind, or breeze As gentle as the blossoms sees their tombs Implied. “Is this enlightenment?” spring asks. In Maytime forests here...
by phillipw | Feb 22, 2024 | CH, ST
The Pleiades and the Church of the Savior Bing Videos When he has died, perfection throbs through all, Not just through him but also through a height Complete, distilled, sublimed. An Everest tall With peak of ice both see-through and pure white Like heaven’s...
by phillipw | Feb 22, 2024 | CH, ST, Uncategorized
For Charles Randall Stanfield on 71st His Birthday Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If suns were smog and smog were suns, if fog Were clean and bright yet suns’ corona’s dim Like haar, if deserts’ sun...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low” Cordelia’s mistake was in her taut Mouth, silence, she refusing praise where praise Was needed, truth expressed as praise. She ought To have found other methods, other ways To counter sisters’ flattery. She gives Lear...
by phillipw | Feb 12, 2024 | GR
Saw-toothed Tapeworms Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Despite how giant tortoise-like the years A man may live, his pains outweigh that length And they are harder shelled. They come with spears To...
by phillipw | Feb 12, 2024 | CH, FR, MA, ST
“One Soul in Bodies Twain” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Seventh Type of Ambiguity ~ William Empson A single photon passes through two slits At once, impossible, yet not quite so. The quantum...
by phillipw | Feb 11, 2024 | AL, JO, MI, PA
“The mind is its own place” ~ Paradise Lost, Book I, Lines 221-270, John Milton The mind creates its own space/time inside A rumpled space in skulls. The gravity In that dimension grows as long and wide As heaven and hell to hold depravity Of atom bombs and...
by phillipw | Feb 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Foldable Blossom Doom Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Because his fancies were not quite the norm, The notion of hydrangeas being like A mad old lady, mind and heart in storm, Had never...
by phillipw | Feb 8, 2024 | DR, FA, GR, NO
Creature of Compassion Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Although in worlds outside of Asia some Might think that pink and green are linked to love Of softness, few think dragons might succumb To...
by phillipw | Feb 7, 2024 | JA, NI
James Points the Way to Future, Foreign Adventures My plane takes off not quite as bumpy in That flight beyond the crabgrass at the end Of runway launch as Piper Cub wings win The sunshine wind of Florida, extend Their grip and take us jostling through the air Above a...
by phillipw | Feb 6, 2024 | GA, Ho, IR, MA
Irises Not Dreaming of Other Irises Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem An iris cannot dream. It cannot dream Of blue, not even nearly purple blue, That wishes it were black. A cherubim, Once it had...
by phillipw | Feb 5, 2024 | GE, OL, SH, WI
He Looks as Old as Hatred Now Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Alas, poor Yorick” “instruments of darkness tell us truths” ~ Shakespeare, Macbeth He looks as old as hatred now. This scene...
by phillipw | Jan 29, 2024 | CH, FO, HE, ME, SA, UN
No, Not Really The Christ will not ascend to heaven while One sinner screams in hell or close His gates. This absolute is known, or, if not, vile That Gospel truth of love since hellfire waits Forever and forever forcing God, Omniscient, to feel the...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2024 | GA, Ho, KA, LO, LU, MA, NE, RO, UN
Unlike You and Him There seemed a time (if time can merely seem) When we soared parallel, so did not touch, The lack of touching sinful as a dream (Though close the lack of touching hurt too much And so I had to comment face to face With little gifts of...
by phillipw | Jan 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Blue Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem ‘But gang she east, or gang she west” ~ Robert Burns; “The Blue-eyed Lassie” as published in The Analectic Magazine September 1813 This...
by phillipw | Jan 24, 2024 | MO
Unending Length and Strength Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If Buddha be correct that everything Is One, the universe, the cosmos, Soul, That all be unity and all these sing In unison, not harmony,...
by phillipw | Jan 23, 2024 | EN, SA, SH, VI
Despite the Yearlong Darkness Under the Hedge Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I pass the place of violets along The little lane that leads me from the square I live in, in my red brick house. No song Is...
by phillipw | Jan 22, 2024 | LO
Ancient Trees without Freud Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The longest living trees don’t daydream while They live for several thousand years in drought. This lack of dreams might mean that...
by phillipw | Jan 21, 2024 | AB, AE, BE, DE, ES, PH, Uncategorized, YA
Awe of the Heavenly Bodies Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The moon would kill to have a face the shape And beauty that yours shows, the smoothness, force, The splendor of your dazzle with escape...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2024 | AG, CE, SA
Love Makes All Things Equal Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem My wants are arms alone. My rest is war; My bed long lasting woes, Sleep unending vigil. Don Quixote, first part, chapter II Suppose we do...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2024 | CA, FA, SA
Insatiable Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Insatiable, your death creates a hole That sucks, a vacuum, a vortex made Of solar wind without a sun. No coal Was ever black as this. No...
by phillipw | Jan 19, 2024 | ME
Life Lives the Life of Life Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A friend asks you the meaning of our life. As soon as it is asked, the question fails. To ask it shouts religions’ godless strife. To...
by phillipw | Jan 17, 2024 | AU, FA, PA, PR
Heroic The autumn brings the woods to life at last, The life of splendor made of God and light, The light and colors dreamed of though more vast Than men imagine even in a rite Of Orthodox and patriarchal sheen Of silk, embroidery. The...
by phillipw | Jan 14, 2024 | GA, HA, HE, NO, ST
The Female Pheasant’s Handsome Lover Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Noh fan opens out upon the stage. The female pheasant’s lover is the point. Her attitude to beauty makes her sage: When males are...
by phillipw | Jan 13, 2024 | AE, AR, BE, CH, ES, MO, underarm hair
Microbes’ Excretion in the Priests’ Hair Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I ask you, what’s the use of beauty if It’s undermined by nuns and monks at prayer, Their hands unknown to you that have a whiff...
by phillipw | Jan 9, 2024 | CO, ER, HA, Ho, MA, PE, RU, SE
The Haunt of Manly Dreams Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A tingling in his skin with hairs makes nubs Rise up. They pop up from connections to His heart, nerve wires. His left-hand searches,...
by phillipw | Jan 2, 2024 | EM, SE, WI
Exponential Nuance Z = Z2 + C When meaning’s sense transforms from words like notes Do when they turn to melody with chords, The harmonies with rhyming rhythms, throats And instruments all blending widely towards That certainty which saints and...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Annie Dillard’s Appetite Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When God set up wide worlds, He did not know, Or, if He did, that makes things even worse. The splendor of the slaughter, black light...
by phillipw | Dec 31, 2023 | NE, OX, PA, TI
Noxymoron The paradox of New Year’s midnight Eves Is ever new and ever old because The endless carries on. The moment cleaves The past from present in unchanging laws And also causes pasts and presents to Cleave hard together changelessly the...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2023 | SO, SP
Parament Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The spirit world is not as spectral in It colors, in its mauves and oranges, pinks And greens as veils, so halo-like and thin Spread...
by phillipw | Dec 24, 2023 | BU, CH, GR, TO
Frankincense Thrones “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying . . .” ~ Luke 2:13 A spoken hymn it was — not sung. They spoke, Those angels, spoke those words, spoke far above Mere music. Right...
by phillipw | Dec 22, 2023 | FE, MA, RO
Masculine Self-reliance ~ Know Thyself Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The fact we do not think about when, BANG, The climax happens (male) or comes and comes And comes if in the woman, when nerves clang...
by phillipw | Dec 20, 2023 | MY, SA
Jesus Smashes Saul to Blindness with Vision Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “the only pure mystics are brutes” ~ George Santayana One mystic that I know who lives with me Is Prospero. He...
by phillipw | Dec 18, 2023 | DN, EV
Deathbound Notions Attuned Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem ………. The minds we have in us emerged, arose Arose through chemicals, mere matter first, Then mindlessness like...
by phillipw | Dec 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Margaret Arbuckle Paterson Graham Whidden and Prunus x subhirtella Fukubana Prunus × subhirtella ‘Fukubana’|winter-flowering cherry ‘Fukubana’/RHS Gardening Where freedom flurrs is wisdom if the mind Where freedom flies is purified in form...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
David Rejected Weaker Emotion at Least Once in His Strength Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “To be ungrateful to your intellect is just as bad as ingratitude to a benefactor.” ~ R. H....
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2023 | CH, FO, SE
Deceived Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Long past, when souls were young, yes, even souls And never mind our bodies, packaged truth Was taught to us in Bible class. Controls...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Buckle Sometimes the language sings much wiser than The mind. The mind is left behind by lines That supersede the poet and the man. He knows as soon as they are written, signs From heaven or Nirvana nimbus-like, Unknown high astral bodies...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Unthinking Music of the Stars “night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.” Psalm 19:2,3 Near infinite in number, stars, these spheres Both vast and small, are singing to the ranks Of angels and archangels, to...
by phillipw | Dec 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Supposedly Mute Swans Sing Only When They Court Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In nature hymnal words are absent, no Necessity for them in wildebeests. No piety is needed. Creatures know Their niches. ...
by phillipw | Dec 4, 2023 | GO, MY
Gautama and Māra Iniquity is starlight in the wrong Location or the purest atom gone Awry, a darkroom with a delving song Of light inside it, thinking in its dawn. The sin is not the light itself. Its height Is not the evil, black the background not Its...
by phillipw | Dec 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ho Ho (Hum) Seven As boring as an alto’s pulsing throat (Or tenor’s) singing Schumann lieder, or “Four Seasons” on your phone, an anecdote Your uncle has retold ten times before, A James Yawned movie comes around again. They’re all the same, same...
by phillipw | Nov 30, 2023 | MO
Bound No dirty atom or electron can Exist. No dirty god can reign supreme Since that would not be deity. A man Cuts off another person’s leg. Does gleam Of goodness come from that, or bad Come pulsing from it? What if he has cut It as...
by phillipw | Nov 30, 2023 | FL, HA, IS, MA
Palestine Protesters in Perspective Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In Michigan an X-er in one town Is all upset because an Xmas band Is drowned out by a protest. One cold frown Is sent across The...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2023 | IN, LO, UN, Uncategorized
Lunar Martyr Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He thought of just this one, this one, this one — Again — Again — AGAIN — as if insane With love, or something, powerfully as a gun That blasts away...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2023 | LO, RO, YA
Genesis 1:2-3 Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When losses rise, not anything can fill The void excepting you. The paradox Resulting from these losings makes...
by phillipw | Nov 12, 2023 | AB, GA, LO, RO
Alchemy’s Golden Paradox in Heaven’s Streets of Transparent Gold Love, I am full of lead. ~ Antony in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, III.11.76 His heart was made of lead, its poison, weight And darkness till he met the one, that one Who mattered only, only,...
by phillipw | Nov 11, 2023 | AB, Uncategorized, YA
Not Just Stars Your eyes glow, not just stars , more moon and sun. The stars and sun are more than fire, the moon Of water made. Its frozen waves are one With ever meltingness and change too soon Yet they are overarched by solar heat And North Star fixity. ...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2023 | BL, CH, ST, UN, WI
Not Holy Enough my Bow He gave to me the end of this, a string Of gold. I tried to make it endless, pure. His love of Heaven’s white hot God might sing Perfection. Love like that, though, could not cure His sickness. My affection also could Not heal...
by phillipw | Oct 19, 2023 | ER, ET, Uncategorized
The name that can be named is not an eternal name. ~ Laotse Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A flower exists in some place far from men, Or far from where its colors and its smell Can be rejoiced in. Far...
by phillipw | Oct 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Continuum Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The lotus rises through the pond but first Through mud. The stalk, the floating leaves, the flower Itself arise. In silences they burst In...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2023 | DE, RO
Pastel Death The petals, lavender and pink and white, Have fallen, fallen on each other, by Each other, making little heaps here slight And heaps there slighter, as they fell to die Beneath the living bushes and the flowers Alive above these ones. ...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2023 | BO, EN, Uncategorized, ZE
Tuesday as Spiritual Breakthrough Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The master teacher of the Zen monks tells One monk to jump to foaming whirlpool waves. He jumps and finds himself in no deep wells...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2023 | CE, CH, OC, SQ
Single-hearted like Humans Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem chambered nautilus images – Bing images Jeremiah 17:9 The chambered nautilus unlike its kin, The octopus and squid, has just one...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2023 | RO, TR
Buirdly Pitlochry was the nexus of the soul, Religions’ soul, when Stephenson was young. He might have been a Hindu in his role Of savant. There he spoke with seer’s tongue Upon the village street. He saw a man Mistreating his puir dog and...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2023 | JA, SA, Uncategorized
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Japan has gods. They know their place. Their place Lies set in leaves and flowers, in anger’s sea. These gods all know one law of Stoic face And steel, as rigid as those...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2023 | CH, LO, MO, Uncategorized
More Lovely than a Golden Spiral Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The chambered nautilus propels his shell Through nighttime waves. He sails much longer than His cousins, octopus and squid. The swell...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2023 | MA
Entasis Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The curve of beauty comes more often than The strictness of the straightness made by hands. In fact Greek pillars made by thinking man Require a curve in...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2023 | VI
The Vietnam Memorial on the Mall Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If I had been a sculptor way back when, The monument that I might well have sketched To win the contest with clean paper, pen And...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Epics and Roads The epics of the Greeks, then Roman roads — They go — and go, and last — and last — . The Appian Way’s length — and Olympic odes — Seem destined for forever. Histories cast From ancient lyres and interlocking stones Now teach the...
by phillipw | Oct 8, 2023 | GA, Ho, LO, MA
Fraught and not Fraught [Today, October 7, 2023, I bought Abhishek’s wedding ring.] Where only black and gold are, gods will lie In wait. The black ones are uncountable, The gold ones only three. The black ones fly Around and in us, unsurmountable The...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2023 | AB, YA
I think that we will live apart as trees Must live, not even in two woodlands near Each other. Maybe some stray autumn breeze Will carry messages from sphere to sphere And I will try to feel that roots and roots Will almost touch — but dreams are only...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2023 | CA
Love Always Leads to Let Down My Prospero has changed to jumping up And settling down in comfort on my lap. I move my palm and fingers, making cup Of love around his rump. He moves to nap The way that cats do, circling with pink paws And winding down with nose...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Artificial Sintelligence Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The world will hardly be the world at all In coming years and decades, never mind Millennia. Reality will sprawl Away from humans. ...