Author Archives: thepensmight

Everything You Are

~~~~~ Everything you see comes from an exploding star. Your laughter, your smile. Your anger, your eyes. Everything you hear comes from an exploding star. Your hopes, your dreams Your pains, your sorrows. Everything you recall comes from an exploding star. Your unborn children, your future. Your songs unsung, your wit Everything you touch comes […]

The Biggest House

~~~~~ I stroll along beside a languid stream as it moves gently along. I see rapids ahead. It grows in power and volume, carries me along as each rill, tributary feeds and speeds the growing river. Bringing the animals who thrive there, despite or because of it, together. No matter our view, both predator and […]

What We Lack

~~~~~ Rain patters, drops on the roof, tickles the windows, plops in puddles. Laughs, cries, reminds us of sunlight, which is always there, though unseen. We no longer believe the sun rests when we can see it no longer, Whether night or clouds, our own cave, where we crawl to disappear. The only one who […]

The Score

~~~~~ Target Practice ~ Philip Brent Harris Does your life sound off to you; dissonant and assonant? Is it flat or sharp, despite the score on which you must perform it? ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See […]

Random or Planned

~~~~~ I fill my life with all the truth and beauty I find as I walk along my way home. Perhaps it is passing cloud or a pebble, The changing tides or the seasons.  As innocent as a newborn’s smile. As bitter as our first rejection. Our own generosity leaves us open for hurt that […]

The Only Sound You Hear

~~~~~ Magnificent, when you’re sure you hear the stars singing, the earth laughing in tune with you. Because you’re in love. for the first time, though each time is first. That’s simply the way love works, whether you remember or not a time where the only sound you hear is each other. Moments, minutes, days, […]

The Home You Built

~~~~~ The strife and turmoil which sometimes visits every relationship when the barometric pressure rises and hard silence rules. At times you think your ears will pop; deaf for a reason the reason for the trouble hidden from you even if hidden by you until something must be said, despite the repercussions. Many may forget […]

A Roosevelt Elk faces the setting sun.

On the Page

~~~~~ Does the world beat you bloody, and slowly tenderize your brain? Could your deity help? Would he? Let you splatter the page, to stain ? ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings […]

Anything and Nothing

~~~~~ Hear the spirit on the stairs, the ticking of the grandfather clock in the hallway. It’s your choice. Which are you picking? Does this have anything, nothing to say? Hear mummers ring the changes, last call. Starting again from the final note, licking blistered fingers, thinking about their fall. Their final stop, leaves that […]

Without a Single Word

~~~~~ Flowing Through Time ~ Philip Brent Harris We walk slowly towards the entrance as the crowd grows around us. We hear conversations. You reach and take my hand. Love floods through me in a current; no place can I imagine I would rather be We dance, run, skip, still hand in hand. Through the […]