Category Laughter
To Arrive or Return
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What are the things we pushed down and bury deep inside? Memories and feelings we hide. Is it more than this, I wonder/? What about earlier intentions, hopes and dreams and prayers all that we wanted to believe and life said not so fast, bub? Some rebel, fight […]
Sixth Extinction Blues
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Here’s Looking at You ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Humans are nature and nature is them. We’re near closure. Will we spin again? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent […]
Dream of Day
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Thunder rolls; rain takes small steps, flows in rivulets. Watch the splashes. Slowly, we contemplate the meaning. Thunder booms, rumbles, rain patters. Louder, closer; we await the lightning. Sunlight shreds dark clouds like tissue. We dance and play, splash the puddles. Our chores, responsibilities forgotten, for now, until […]
Wait and See
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Fried Egg on the Ocean ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Waiting for this strange device to startle me and tell me, my order’s ready, hold the ice, How good the food is, wait and see. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite […]
Slaked and Sated
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Falling Water ~~~~~ The water descends in trickling rills.Light plays on the surface as it turns,flows together into a deepening pool.Sunlight strikes brief, bright sparks.Separate, anticipated yet unexpected.Their beauty from light sweet treasureWhere next will we discover lifegivingwater which we can never quaff. Still, We perceive our thirst has […]
The Time Has Come
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ And now the time has come, he said, to wisely wonder where we are. When few have all, many beg for bread, it appears we have gone far too far. Does anyone now even remember where we thought we were going? Did we start this trip one December? […]
Me, Myself and Why
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Wings ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ I’m a clever fellow, if I say so myself. I make green from blue and yellow When I pull paint from off my shelf, I paint pictures, then some I’d sell Must market better if I am to win. Something I’m not doing […]
I Will Begin Again
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Duplicity Times Two ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ I wish I had more stamina, so much more than I possess. Like athletes in the cinema, I’d compete with all the rest. Any reason to worry now? I near three score and ten. Days hurry; I’ll not kowtow At the […]
The Spaces Between Redux
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Fire Seeks Surface ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Shall we talk then, shall we sing, discuss Rachmaninoff, analyze Proust, remembrance of future things? Will you tell me no one knows what tomorrow brings? As musicians fingers fly, over strings, along the keys; quickly, quickly, come listen. Not only notes, […]
Nor Any Other
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I know the truth. You know it, too. And so does everyone we know. As children unlearn what they knew. The connections deep within them which recognizes infinite possibility. They know miracles mere party tricks and magic is the norm; in no way evil nor any other manufactured […]