by phillipw | May 31, 2019 | SO
Melodies for Sonnets I searched the Web for melodies to singA sonnet to, and YouTube offered four.Four measley tunes for sonnets! Here’s the thing:I reckon at the very least that moreThan 40,000,000 sonnets will have beenComposed since Petrarch tidied up the formAnd...
by phillipw | May 30, 2019 | PR
“All His Biddings are Enablings ”* — The Higher View Jehovah is in charge. There’s nothing in Our universe outside His widest strength. He works mysteriously to counter sin; No agency, no matter to what length And what extremes it goes, escapes that reach. Negation of...
by phillipw | May 30, 2019 | PO
Seldom Pure and Never Simple: Fawlty Thoughts There’s freedom in the speaking of the truth. I know we’re not supposed to think that such A thing exists. It’s fashionably uncouth, Post-Modernism says, to use the crutch Of common sense. Too many minds have come With far...