by phillipw | Oct 9, 2026 | BU, DE, RE
Kyoto Shrines Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Inside the temples there beneath the trees Love’s lights remain aglow. Beside the eaves Of holy places as if under seas Religion offers solace as from leaves...
by phillipw | Oct 8, 2026 | JA, RE
Sacred Sects and Shinto Shrine Because of Grief and Woe Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Imagine living where a street is lined With temples and with weeping willows, range Of willows and of temples, life...
by phillipw | Oct 8, 2026 | CH, ST
“almost mad with ecstasy” ~ Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditation A man of limbs, a man of limbs and limbs Who cut through limbs and cut through life, appeared As if theophany, he requiring hymns. Not quite theophany he disappeared In lightning’s flash, slashed in...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2026 | CH, MY, ST
Saint Teresa of Avila Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His thoughts were as a mystic dreams alone And maybe, thus, a pure validity. His loves were like a many legged, high throne That rules a cosmos of...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2026 | ED, IN, SI
A Gate at the End of the World Genesis 3:24 The first of gates that opened and then closed, That gate which opens possibilities, Is set by seraphim from Christ. They posed With sword and flame to thwart abilities. The notion of a choice from freedom made Was...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2026 | EV, GA, IN, SI
Perhaps on Their Seven Hundredth Day Together and Apart Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” Genesis...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2026 | Sonnet
Trees Never Ravished Him Except in Autumn “The green trees, when I saw them first through one of the gates, transported and ravished me . . .” ~ Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditation “Love refuses nothing.” ~ Cosimo in The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino The...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2026 | SE
The Twain “Seraphim” of Torture Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Genesis 3:24 KJV A gate that ravishes with rudest hair Christ fashioned but he then forbade with sword, Held flaming sword, of cherubim. ...
