Category Modern Life
Quirks Work
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! What a Lovely Young Lady ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Writing in the first person can I be I sure I am writing as me? If I think I describe true events, what in my mind’s eye I see. Can I recount truthfully pictures I find lurking in my […]
The Ultimate Story
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ No matter how empty I may feelor how creative I hope I am.Does it matter in the long run?The answer is yes and no.Despite the finish line,we all must run the race.Run and race but metaphorsfor love, sorrow, pain, and cheer.They speak of all we fear and desire.The […]
Claws and All
Modified from an earlier version. People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ My kitty likes me, at least that’s what I choose to think. Kneads me hard; her sharp claws into my soft skin sink. Clearly her inflicting pain must be a sign of her affection Hold on, she’s a cat, so maybe not after […]
Two Cats
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Two Cats ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ I saw two cats sleeping out in a field. One was black and the other ginger. Their only comfort seemed each other. Feral, no doubt; it made me feel sad. The best I could do, take their picture. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, […]
Between the Atoms
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Every grain of sand that pings the glass. Every blood-drop shed may be your last. Every breath shared has history and time. Every step taken and each hill you climb. Parts of you sustained grass, filled the air and grew flowers, trees, leaves, animals. Despite what comprises you, […]
Simply Say
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Another month has wandered off. I’m wondering which way it went. I hope wherever it landed was soft if it knows how my time was spent. The seventh month of another year gets ready to make its swift escape. I wonder if next month I must fear. Might […]
Littering the Landscape
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What will we do when we are gone? Will we regret our actions afterward, as our spirits watch the many squirrels? Will any being we leave behind mourn? Will they scent the winds, noticing our smell, food we left behind is vanished? Continue as they always have, consume […]
Never Understanding; It Will Not
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ So many people believe themselves the weavers of our tapestry or that it was woven for them alone. One way they are right; their actions creating the warp and the weft, life’s visage. They are also wrong. This tapestry’s design existed longer than they’ve been alive or could […]
As Every Parent
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What have I to offer youthat no one has ever thought?The truth we know, says nothingand means less than zero.Each new day brings fresh vision,as all babies’ first cries echoevery sunrise we have known.Yet they speak a language both love and death understand. Hope tells us to hold […]
When I Reach Home
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ How might I discover the way back? Do I look for signs, follow the river? I know in time, I will cross the river. Without a boatman or spectral figure. I think I will not be dressed in black it’s the absence of color and vision. I’ve seen […]
