by phillipw | Nov 7, 2026 | Sonnet
Cape Canaveral with Fades and Spots Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem What use are snapshots if they have no names Or words attached to them as . . . years . . . go by As merciless as cheetahs with...
by phillipw | Nov 7, 2026 | AR, BI, CH, DE, RE, Sonnet
Archepiscopal Regret Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Dedicated to Nikolai Klyuev and Sergei Yesenin together The growth of galaxies is where the grave Begins. Your death beamed there when light flashed...
by phillipw | Nov 6, 2026 | CA, DE, Ho, JO, KE, PE, RE, SH, Sonnet, TU
Still Unchangeable Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias” The treasures of the pharaohs robbed and robbed...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2026 | Sonnet
The Fortunate Fall For Nikolai Klyuev and Sergei Yesenin together The autumns of New England shine bright-sad. They, though mixed with gray of rain and twinned With exultation and with howls, break glad In spite of death. If Eve had never sinned, This brilliance of...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2026 | AN, AR, SA, Sonnet
Seraphim as Seamtresses Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The angels of the inmost heaven are not clothed.” ~ Emmanuel Swedenborg What kinds of clothes do angels make for those Who choose to wear...
by phillipw | Nov 4, 2026 | FR, LO, MA, RO, Ta
Senseless, Tasteless Man Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Dedicated to Nikolay Klyuev and Sergei Yesenin together Imagine sunsets written out in Braille That only blind ones possibly can read, Where...
by phillipw | Nov 4, 2026 | BA, LA, NI, SK, Sonnet
Twitching Eyelids Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The flocks of tiny dreams arise from limbs Where they were sleeping. The bolt and door That held them in and down are rising hymns With whir of wings. ...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2026 | AR, HE, ME, MY, PH, Sonnet, ZE
Zeptoverse Cosmos and the Head of a Pin Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In seas of oceans of the galaxies Are particles of smallest nth degree. One hundred billion times more small peas Called atoms in...
