Category Love
Improvisation
~~~~~ A Rapid Meditation on Ives Trio for Piano, Cello and Violin Where Did That Come From The way in life we come together, walk side-by-side and harmonize. Go our separate ways, rehearing The musical influences we shared. Will we muse on it from then on? Think it but a passing fancy, soon forgotten. Distant […]
New Molds to be Broken
Rising of the Moon ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Flow through me like a river from the tiny spring where you begin. Above the lakes and streams watch dragonflies and damselflies hover in an everlasting dance of movement. Iridescent colors where no pigment exists, show how movement exposes more than life alone may ever truly […]
The Egg and the Hen
Navel Gazing ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ How do we recover from our mistakes? Is it only going forward or moving on? What if it entails a loss we cannot face, or, not a mistake, but a treasure gone? A loved-one to whom you don’t speak. Are you waiting for them to say sorry? When […]
Wild Yeast
~~~~~ How will we cause the colors to appear when life appears black and white, blank, no matter where, how far away we gaze? We may as well gaze into our own navels. The permanent scar which marks us flesh proves little enough in its shy profundity. Whether we dance, caper, ramble, race, or march […]
Branded Like Ender
~~~~~ I had a chance to write and I did not even try. The circumstance wasn’t right? I don’t know the reasons why. I thought of this in my head. Something like, some other words. Strike while the iron is hot, they said, or be branded like Ender, called a third ~~~~~ People Over Politics, […]
Poets May
~~~~~ Poets may have no shame, yet it may beset their mind. Not many can expect fame. A few, plus some by dying. No shame will tell the truth: Cannot control their words, in their age or in their youth. Canary in a mine, other birds. Whether they whisper, shout Likely lost, left upon a […]
Cannot Replace
What do call 73 million dollars taken from a from manufacturers bank account? A good start. ~~~~~ 73 million dollars sure sounds like a lot. It’s not. Not when it is weighed against the loss of a child. ”Hey, that’s big bucks,” you say. “I’d give it a shot.” Parents’d give all to see when […]
Falling Behind
~~~~~ It makes me want to return to a time, years ago, before PC’s and smart phones. After every computer in the house, but one has crashed, died, given up the ghost, what should I do now? Install new technology: television and internet upgrades, we hope. As age advances, with aches and pains, these challenges […]
Begin, Become, Begone
~~~~~ Speaking now of old friends or of lovers from long ago. Where the closest may be lost or somehow replaced by others along the way. Yet, life continues along, with us or without us. Do you believe, perchance, when you are finally gone the universe vanishes. This, despite evidence to the contrary, science, perhaps, […]
Not As Ourselves
Sun in the Water ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ What rituals do we retain from ancient times?Primordial, primitive, leaving faint trace, no memory.When each morning the sun rising was pure magic,The setting sun called forth darkness, a time of fear. We have misplaced the magic, retained our night terror.Magic not lost entirely, yet glimpsed now […]
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