Category Music
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 […]
To Capture All
~~~~~ Out for an evening of music. waiting for the world to speak. Flowing through my fingers, now, anticipating a lightning strike. Or it could be that nothing comes, though that is not my expectation. Only our concept of time, perception will tell what this evening brings, whatever will come through me guided by my […]
Anticipation
Glowing Moon ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ I sing the tune without notes, life, air, water, love and hate. Urgent laughter, birds and boats, indrawn breath which all await. Star birth and truth glowing, shadows contrast, seeds scatter, wafting aloft; a river flowing, small feet, rain go pitter-patter. Glorious crescendo in minor key within, without, […]
Echoes, choes, oes, oes, oes
Crystal View Persuasion ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Echoes come from far away,another time and place.Even if we live there,it’s lost in the deeps of space.I have heard it said,the beginning of wisdom arriveswhen we know what we don’t know. What if we have heard this wrong?What we know is somethingwhich we must strive to […]
Within a Woodland
~~~~~ I fell into a dream within a woodlandunaware of who I was or where I lay.I didn’t know, was I awake or sleeping?I felt protected, like floating on a cloud.I gave myself to soft slumber’s keeping;my heart then slowed, my head bowed. I might learn, if I thought it mattered.Fairies, I espy, sipping with […]
Note by Note
~~~~~ What dance is this, if I may ask?Is it too capricious to explain?Yet, danced once, it’s easy to learn.Knowing now, I hasten to proclaim.Dance me the stars, the bottom of the sea.Metaphor cannot contain what this means to me.Take my hand and I will guide you step-by step.Everywhen, we shall always have laughed and […]
Book Lice and Mice
Where Air Becomes Breath ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Would I write something brilliant if I could write as well as I think? Would it register, matter to anyone or be hidden in the halls of history? Might an unknown future scholar discover how a cryptic poet sings? Show the words better soul’s food than […]
Simple Things
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ When did we waste the reality of simple things? Where watching the wonder of a far horizon is like listening to the voice when an angel sings? Nothing religious or mystic found around here. No less magical is the sound of a human voice. Why did we sacrificed […]
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