Author Archives: thepensmight
Tissue Thin, Full of Blood
~~~~~ Rooting out everything we decide doesn’t belongtill we discover through our haste and hubris, wetossed the nails and boards, left the toilet jammed. We believe there can’t be a problem, since we’llmove to another venue, continue the same play.Except there’s no other place we can go or hide. Not for most of us at […]
To Fight as Friends and Lovers
~~~~~ To Fight as Friends and Lovers Will life give us laughter or tears Like some presents, where we smile weakly, all the while thinking WTF. Do we choose what we receive or whatever paths we decide to take? Despite the straightness, strangeness of the road we travel now, we’ll Walk every other path, reap […]
Thoughts About Winning
~~~~~ Everyone I know likes to win, games, contests, lotteries or almost anything. Winning makes us believe the universe or the (G)god or gods we believe in have noticed us. More, not only have they noticed us, they approve. I’ve never quite grasped the concept that some supreme being, responsible for the entire universe, spared […]
Once More, With Feeling
~~~~~ What do we anticipate tomorrow holds? If filled with hope or harsh trepidation, it will not be tomorrow when it comes. What we thought, or not, infinite variations. ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of […]
Ever Shifting Terrain
Just Hanging ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ The sweet trilling of the flowers, baritone voices from an old grove. Neighbors for thousands of years find new sympathies to share or embellish the same stories, again, old conflicts in different ways than on myriad other days, other years. Bees buzz between boles, intent upon the bright […]
Perspective
Event Horizon ~ Philip Brent Harris Cannot explain this to you since it’s still a mystery to me. In time, from a different view it may be something I can see. ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See […]
Never About
~~~~~ It was never about what I lost nor about what I might gain. It was my life’s foolish cost. All the wishes wished in vain. ~~~~~ 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 […]
Distance Between
Blushing Beauty ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Would that I could hold the blush upon the sweet rose you sniff within my mind, strolling the gardens paths with you again. Most not ours alone but our life sweeter for the blooms, fruits, peaceful prospects spreading before us to refresh our spirits. I see you still […]
Celestial Illumination
~~~~~ The starlight pierces me unto my heart and soul. It reveals the vastness within me, connection. Everyone, with no true separation between us, anyone or anything till we realize we pierce the stars as they pierce us. ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy […]
Need to Learn
~~~~~ Without the roots and flowers how will we survive? The answer is unknown, at least for now. Mostly, no one now alive will know. Witness the lost of humanity to know how we’ll live. No matter what, the end will arrive. To survive the near term, what peril we’ll face is unknown. Is there […]