P.H. Wise PM
Universal Ponderings
The dawn, the universe, a 'someday, soon.'Poetry: Life, K, English, Poetry & Spiritual, words: 103, 3/17/2010
Apostolic Mission to the Finale of Seem
A poem about doubt, death, horror, and other cheerful things. Is there any goodness to be found in this world? Is there even such a thing as goodness? Shall 'be' be finale of seem? A response of sorts to Wallace Stevens' "The Emperor of Icecream."Poetry: Religion, T, English, Spiritual & Horror, words: 274, 1/12/2009
1 Distant Redeemer
A poem about doubt, Neverland, Hell, and a distant redeemer.Poetry: Religion, T, English, Spiritual & Poetry, words: 562, 1/12/2009
1 Localized Whitman
There is nothing in all the world quite as tiny as the universal. Nothing so enormous as the local, the specific, the singular. This tree, that blade of grass, that woman...Poetry: Life, T, English, Poetry & Romance, words: 234, 2/12/2008
Long Day
At the end of a long, rainy day, a woman has a chance encounter...Fiction: General, K, English, words: 297, 5/17/2007
1 Dawn
Of the dawn, a baby's first cry, good, evil, and renewal.Poetry: Family, K, English, words: 98, 4/18/2007
1 The Stars Knew That
Of truth, the night, and your own reflection.Poetry: Religion, K+, English, Poetry, words: 146, favs: 1, 4/2/2007
New Green Leaves
The new green leaves on the tree the cycle continues.Poetry: Nature, K+, English, Spiritual, words: 37, 4/2/2007
1 Naked
A short poem about a feeling that's hard to express. Not nakedness in the conventional sense, but something other.Poetry: Religion, K+, English, Spiritual, words: 32, 4/2/2007
2 Prometheus
The good thief, the bad master...Poetry: Fantasy, K+, English, Spiritual & Tragedy, words: 231, favs: 1, 4/2/2007
Mezzanine
No longer a lump of coal, not yet a diamond. That's the state of every Christian, I suppose. This poem is about that strange state of inbetween. Sort of.Poetry: Religion, K, English, Poetry, words: 126, 2/20/2007
2 Friedrich's 'Winter Landscape'
Based on the painting 'Winter Landscape,'by Friedrich. An old man faces the winter of his life.Poetry: Religion, K, English, Poetry & Spiritual, words: 107, 2/20/2007
3 Grandpa
Of Grandfathers, Grandmothers, and all that's best and irreplacable about the people we love.Poetry: Family, K+, English, Spiritual & Angst, words: 268, 2/20/2007
3 Looking Back
Of trees and childhood, winter and spring.Poetry: Nature, K+, English, Poetry, words: 68, 2/17/2007
Flying Bears
A poem about birds who learn to fly, bears who don't, and the sad, often uncrossable gap between one kind of relationship and another.Poetry: Life, K+, English, Poetry, words: 191, 2/15/2007
1The Cataract
I led her by the hand along the path of dust...Poetry: Love, K+, English, Humor & Romance, words: 188, 10/13/2006
Resurrection Day
A visit of the sepulcher leads to an unexpected epiphany.
Poetry: Religion, K+, English, Spiritual, words: 179, 10/13/2006
1HeartWinter »
Near the autumn equinox, I took the cemetery road...Poetry: Family, K+, English, Angst & Tragedy, chapters: 2, words: 360, updated: 10/6/2006 published: 9/21/2006