Category Love

Before

How do we surmise? We have said and done Enough to think we’re wise? Will we know before we’re gone? See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art The Extra Mile Art, shirts and other gift items Scriggler TPM Niume

All So Simple

What’s a person to do When every day There’s something new War and violence Feeling blue So what’s a person Supposed to do Rich fools spout madness Though some agree Guns for all That’s best, don’t you see Braggarts and bullies Full of intolerance, misogyny All the love you have All the love you hold […]

Absence

Absence makes a heart grow fonder Unless your heart is what is missing Not expected by any first responder Spoils a moment when first kissing See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art The Extra Mile Art, shirts and other gift items Scriggler TPM Niume

Amelia’s Garden

Jacob Jonathon Johansson-Jost, a poet, scholar, philosopher to most, In his eyes, he’s failed, though only he sees, Still, he walks proudly, chin held high, with dignity. Jacob, after breakfast, pauses in his study doorway lighted by the windows that face the garden, her garden, Amelia’s garden. He turns and surveys the room. He smiles, […]

How!

All day long, we fought and wrestled All night long, we talked and prayed Drank deep, and broke all the vessels Not a one would quit, thus we stayed In the end, we’d each got in our licks Blows, kisses which bruised, battered Victory and loss laid out in tock-ticks Hoped how we lived all […]

Spot On

When everything in life you daily fought Are things with which your life is fraught While you feel you’re doing all you ought All your efforts add up to less than naught Make sure you’re not in your trap caught Dream, hope and try for what you sought Recall, it is within, not things you […]

Recall Recalled

Singing softly A nonsense lullaby Sweet wordless tune Recalls us all To our earliest days Before understanding To ancient singing Before we invented Language, words See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art The Extra Mile Art, shirts and other gift items

Light, A Distant Vista

Responsible, preoccupied, needs, daily duties, urges to create Atlas beneath my half sky inventing my truth in beauty before I’m late Days fast-paced, so full of shoulds and musts to meet and answer When so few seek either truth or beauty; they don’t pay the financier Is shielding the candle flame from darkness worth the […]

Bartholomew Matthew

Bartholomew Mathew Cannot decide Tangled in social metaphor Smiling snide remarks Too knowing asides Yearns for freedom From his shabby garret His plush penthouse Can he escape Fly away Will he try Ensnared in darkness His shadow’s umbra Anticipates crisis Steps and turns Life’s dance marathon His daily rumba Sudden, explosive Will he be Still […]

Have I Told You?

Have I told you about anything I know Or have I only told you about my beliefs One’s like granite, survives a hammer blow The other like a gust of wind or a falling leaf Belief will sometimes change the world Knowledge is sometimes calcified and friable If we could believe peace is around us […]