Category Laughter
Thundering Falls
~~~~~ Water flows gently past you. The current is strong. Boaters glide by and leaves dot the surface, caught on tree roots, bushes, like swimmers stopping to rest. Then swimming on. Ripped away, flailing, spinning. Whirlpools briefly save them from thundering falls. ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, […]
Anticipation in Silence
~~~~~ Deep into the night, rain, drums down on the roof, cascades from the eves. The water the only music in this dark, empty city. A lone woman, turns her collar up against the mist. Heels click streetlamp to streetlamp in vacant lanes, anticipating the city alive. ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Flowing Along
~~~~~ Where are all the people we used to know? Their track has faded, gone, dropped away. Was it us or them who decided to go? Or, Ask the same question about who stayed. Stranger becomes acquaintance, then friend. They stay and play a while or even longer. Job changes moves, ennui, a loss […]