by phillipw | Feb 17, 2022 | CI, HA
Dying Cicadas Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem May at least just one Of them live on this night, Autumn cicada. ~ Yayū Much weaker and much weaker comes the sound Cicadas...
by phillipw | Feb 12, 2022 | CI, HA
Either Audible or Visible—You Can’t Have Both Together The cicada is Seen when it stops crying Finally—and flies. ~ Shiki The insect does its dry annoyance Of noise, but, not until it flaps its wings To fly away, the best clairvoyance Will ever find him where he...
by phillipw | Jun 1, 2021 | CI, CO, HE, TH, VE
“Resistance to Government,” the Tract that Wrested India from Britain and Led Martin Luther King, Jr., to the Lincoln Memorial Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Maine A natural Sabbath brings a...
by phillipw | May 11, 2021 | AN, CI, GR, Ho, MA, PA
Might Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In real man Greece the reason for the male Grown up in masculinity to be The one to be allowed to vote and rail Against opponents in a vote was...
by phillipw | Feb 1, 2021 | CI, MA, OV, PE
Oxymoron The mystery of a circle makes not quite A mystery. Circles are a perfect shape And with ideals, so like the Phoenix’ flight, Renewals endlessly, the mind must gape. Since circles are, each one, a flawless line, The only way that they can be the nth...
by phillipw | Apr 20, 2020 | CI, Ho
Plato Would Have Hated Movies “the stones would immediately cry out” ~ Luke 19:40 No sound of landing penetrates the rocks. The total lack of atmosphere here on This moon forbids the din. There must be shocks While lander touches down, like when long gone...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | CI
Bewitched Wikicommons When Circe is reduced to trivial Tableau by Burne-Jones, caught in old gold, blue And black and white, tainting convivial Containers in “The Wine of Circe,” true Iniquity is camouflaged. He seemed To realize this...