by phillipw | Mar 17, 2025 | CH, GU, RE
Waiting for Sentimental Water “The Gospels, along with the rest of the New Testament, have been translated into at least 1,726 languages”. Google AI Overview See also Acts 5:1-11. https://images.app.goo.gl/S3FbtPPAU7X2qkFm6 The church presents...
by phillipw | Mar 1, 2025 | BO, GA, GU, Ho, Uncategorized
Awe, the Akkadians, and Two Men in Love Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Loch Awe, embraced by Scottish hills alone, Lies long beneath the troubles caused by wind, Perhaps of troubled hearts. The cairns...
by phillipw | Feb 21, 2025 | BO, GA, GU, LO, RO
“but in our stars” We wonder whether we can ever find Each other in between our words and signs, Our gestures with our hands and arms. We wind Remembered kisses as if valentines Among our pains of exile. Not just lochs Divide us; more like...
by phillipw | Feb 20, 2025 | BO, GA, GU, LO, RO, Uncategorized
Orange Passion Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Not often mango sunset clouds and sky Cause burnishing of Scottish lochs that shine In orange of special garnets. Northern Skye Is foreign to...
by phillipw | Feb 9, 2025 | BO, GA, GU, LO, PA, RO, SC
The Lochs, Coldness, Love Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Large lochs move far away and farther. So It seems at least without you near in space And time, in eons time, or nearly slow As that without...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2025 | BO, GA, GU
Miniaturization of Romance in Showers .. The wind’s rain shows the light like stars across The cosmos, but some eyes decide to see The vacuum of nothingness. Shine’s gloss Is not desired enough. Instead a scree Of pessimism made of Scotland reigns. The...
by phillipw | Aug 5, 2024 | GU, Uncategorized
A Religion for Bergamot, Lemon, Iris, Jasmine, Rose, Patchouli, Vetiver, Opopanax, Tonka Bean, Frankincense, Sandalwood, Musk, Civet, Ambergris, Leather, and Vanilla Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If...
by phillipw | Aug 9, 2021 | GA, GU, HE, IS, JU, LA, PA, TR, ZE
Pitifully Bulging with Restraint The ancient myths refrain from giving hot Exactness to sex swollen loves. The gate Of Troy is breached, but Homer leaves out taut Male flesh in ram and slam of lust in spate Between Queen Helen’s legs. When Zeus rapes up Inside...
by phillipw | Jun 2, 2021 | CO, GU, ME, NE
Phantom A special shadow might reveal much worse, Much more than just a silhouette of shade That trails you. It might cast a hex or curse That clings because of sly mistakes you made So long ago you thought that you should not Be punished for them, or the...
by phillipw | May 19, 2021 | CL, GU, OR, SE
Tight before Release The bowstring waits to twang. The tension raves Against the fingers. Then the arrow zings As deeply as it can. The target braves The penetration. Tautest Imai strings Await the plucking of a classical Refinement. They desire release...
by phillipw | Feb 27, 2021 | GU, LO, PA, RO
Le crème The mouth would speak. The poem disappears. The heart desires to love. Sweat fades away, Though. Passion lasts for moments, not for years. He sits alone, Parisian café Amour around him where he used to sit With more than newsprint words. ...
by phillipw | Nov 12, 2020 | GR, GU, MA, SE
The Opposite of Trance Etheric this one isn’t. He is steep With hairiness and muscle like a Greek Guerrilla killing Nazis. Flesh is deep If worshipped. He is foreign to oblique. He wants to thrust and press his chest against His victim as he rapes or woos. A...
by phillipw | Jun 12, 2020 | GU, Ho, SE
Constitutional Slaughter: Connecticut, Nevada, Florida, Texas Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate.” ~ Medea, Euripides The women don’t do this, except...
by phillipw | May 15, 2020 | GU, SI, SP
Edict How dull the gilded dome seems under clouds Of London gray. The perfect, swerving shape Looks saddened as if wearing mourning shrouds, Or dirtiness, or veils of thinnest crepe. Such beauty should not be degraded thus. But London,...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | GU
Constitutional Slaughter: Connecticut, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Texas Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate.” ~ Medea, Euripides The women don’t do this,...
by phillipw | Apr 6, 2020 | GU
One of the most famous mythological figures in Chinese Buddhism is Guanyin Bodhisattva. His name means “observing voices.” When he hears suffering cries , he appears instantly to help . He is enshrined in Buddhist temples in China . He is also she,...
by phillipw | Jan 13, 2020 | GU
Pure and Gold ….. They rise, two domes, one white, one gold, and knurled Like pleated manna ice cream, exotic, Exoticism of the East, a world Away. Here they are, almost erotic Because they are so beautiful and shaped Like love, or like our loves...
by phillipw | Jan 10, 2019 | GU
Edict How dull the gilded dome seems under clouds Of London gray. The perfect, swerving shape Looks saddened as if wearing mourning shrouds, Or dirtiness, or veils of thinnest crepe. Such beauty should not be degraded thus. But London, unremorseful, just goes on As...