by phillipw | Sep 8, 2026 | FA, PR, SC
Blind Seers Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The fact defined lacks sense, the sense that hearts Desire. The meaninglessnesses of facts Are multiplied because there are no charts From blanks to show our...
by phillipw | Sep 8, 2026 | AE, BE, ES, SP, TR
Mollusks and Modern Poetry Editors Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The loveliness which shapes the look of shells On snails is something snails can never clasp. Their sense of beauty has no swelling...
by phillipw | Sep 8, 2026 | IN, PO, RO, SH
Writing Iago and Macbeth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We know the truest playwrights, poets see The world through lenses not their own, but through The organs of the characters they free Up on the...
by phillipw | Sep 8, 2026 | Sonnet
A Weeping Willow Tree, Fare Thee Well From the willow tree On the road over the moor Day starts to darken. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden to regularize its lineage] As day begins to darken from the grace Of one green willow tree, the poet’s pause Presents an...
by phillipw | Sep 8, 2026 | Sonnet
Plum Blossoms Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Every night from now Will turn to dawn from the white Blooms of the plum tree. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] If white is purity, then truth is true...
by phillipw | Sep 7, 2026 | PR
Brutus, the Armored Stoic The axe bites the trunk Of the cherry-blossom tree; The snail moves, serene. ~ Baishatsu [Englished by Phillip Whidden This snail inside its moving home in rain Or sunlight crawls as calm as cherry blooms. S(h)e never broods on jealous...
by phillipw | Sep 7, 2026 | BE, NI, PA
Blonde Rosebuds Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Beyond the rosebuds or the deaths in gas In Auschwitz and beyond translucent trails Snails leave behind, beyond the ice crevasse Of Everest and beyond black...
by phillipw | Sep 7, 2026 | EP, OD
Achilles Drags the Body of Hector Behind Bad Battle Chariot Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Truth’s poetry is wider than the range Of science, breadth’s tall theories and facts. To disagree with this you...
