Category Love
At Least Who We Believe
Pause now, mere moments, amble along city streets. Stroll down brassy, brightly-lit boulevards, replete, Preening, peering at our distorted reflections, why, Sumptuous shop windows, blank-eyed passers-by. Captured in and by the lenses of many-eyed CCTV. Our life’s digital Camera Obscura in 360 degrees Do not stare nor act furtive, upturned collar, hide, Do not ever […]
Until
Slow and languid Steps of life’s dance When we are full Happy, secure In ourselves Those we love Who love us Still and all Our task Is to share Empty our being Into the pool Of universal Love and longing Until completely empty Completely whole ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent […]
Anything and Everything
Anything you can imagine Have imagined, will imagine Has happened, is happening Will happen; believe me Here, somewhere, elsewhere Get a clue; the cosmos is So, breathe deep Sit back and relax Enjoy the show, The only one in town If you contemplate A better show than this It’s, quite simply, Up to you to […]
And You See
Waiting in a rental car parking lot Wondering what does it mean Jets roar loudly over your head Contrails to places unseen But still it is here that you wait Looking up and out to the west Fog crashes slowly over the hills A misty wave at its crest Inexorably it falls, runs in Fog […]
No Longer
I can no longer write of hate Not even to decry it I can only write of love Though our actions belie it I must not chew on pain and fear Though daily on the menu I must change my diet As I cannot change my venue ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings […]
Still Today
Still today I plan and dream Long years Past, forgotten Perhaps forgiven Rent, riven Rendered mute Memory shifts Slips, loose pebbles Hold your breath Rattle, clatter Hope, pray Quaking, trembling Shifting sands Cease moving Sound silences No babies laugh No ancient sages Share ignored wisdom Until they Themselves Ignore their own Truth and meaning Realizing, […]
What Shall I Do?
I’m troubled. As well as being a writer, I am also a fine artist and a digital artist. All three pursuits have either begun or found their form within the past decade. Though I have lived three-score and five years, and have finally found what I want to be when I grow up. Oil painting […]
Songs of War ~ Songs of Peace
While I honor all the men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice and the families, military and civilian, who have born the ultimate cost, I believe we must look for a time when these words never need be written again. And will the savage songs of war never end Replaced by simple, sweet […]
The Rest
Things that are lost may reappear Or never show up at all, my dear Neither rhyme nor reason suffices Will explain our talents and vices Despite what doctors, shrinks say It’s all a mystery, but you will pay Knowledge bubbles up from below A truth we cannot possibly know In the end, wonder what it […]
Let Them Sing
Oh how wonderful, wonderfully odd Our setting for this intimate concert Flute, harp and viola sing and dance In an immense, stone museum gallery Plain, but artful to the towering walls White dressed blocks of quarried stone Above a darker gray stone wainscoting A marble floor, patterns within patterns Stark, modern chrome and resin chairs […]
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