by phillipw | Jun 2, 2026 | PO, SU, ZY
Who Needs Jung or Salvador? Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Fantastic fills the real as much as real Fulfills the unbelievable. Around Inside the chest of each the two can feel The other indivisibly, two...
by phillipw | Jun 2, 2026 | CH, GI, MI
Nursing Anguish Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem She burst out, sobbing coming from her throat And eyes, and ran to dolls to dandle with. Although she still felt sorrow as a bloat Around her voice box,...
by phillipw | Jun 2, 2026 | IM, TR
The Humor in Death Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The mass of humans feels a ghostly pulse Inside their minds because those brains are weak. The thought of death makes all of them convulse With...
by phillipw | Jun 2, 2026 | MA
The Poet not the Critic Sees the Truth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The willow cutting, grown, Becomes a holy place with lights, The fireflies floating. ~ Issa [Englished by Phillip Whidden] The critic...
by phillipw | Jun 2, 2026 | SA, WI
Endorphin Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The past is never finished, never gone. It comes to haunt you, ever living dead. It sucks tomorrow’s blood, today’s. A thrawn Dead Janet it refuses to be...
by phillipw | Jun 1, 2026 | BL, FA, RE
Shuttered Eyes in Billions Most people love the fictions from their youth Much more than factuality. They love Those fictions much, much more than manful truth. They hold divinity, as taught, above True common sense and truest science. Faiths Around the world all...
by phillipw | Jun 1, 2026 | Sonnet
The Throat and Mouth from which Exquisite Melody Flows Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Divine and human, music, mystic, sings Combined. The tenor or soprano sweeps The choir along. As seraphim’s gold...
by phillipw | May 31, 2026 | DE
Ruthless Do not forget that darkness drifts along Forever and when galaxies are gone The darkness, deepened, will go on . . . more long . . . Than light could dream of. Then no dawn Will ever drag itself above that night. No planet will experience the rise...
