Category Music
Temporal Expense
Do we now Muddled men Fetished females Spend time Like bits of metal Paper, information To prove We are living Collected, reflected Twittering birds Speaking, seeking Connection Within Books of faces Recognition Without, Incomplete meaning Distant acquaintances Lost friends Some remembered Many forgotten Or never met Face to face Impersonal Person-to-person call Do people now […]
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 […]
A Mirror’s Glass in Darkness
Always give your heart to those you can Everyone can hear what you might think Every time you open your mouth, speak Brilliant bon mots, also tarnished tropes Spew like vomit when you’re distracted At other times, though you feel focused Creating is your being when ideas dance Water beads sizzling in a searing […]
Breakfast Anyone?
Breath away sleep In the glimmering dawn Roosters crow Like clarion horns Some have been Long awake Secret lovers Their leave to take Mothers, fathers Children to shake Night terrors Long passed away Snagged and held On the sharp edges Of breaking day Powerless, forgotten As an egg’s yellow yolk Hidden in darkness Until the […]
Hear Here
Music Translates Emotions Into sound We need Only listen Everywhere Music is found ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art Vida Voices New patterns celebrate spring and summer Scriggler TPM Niume The Extra Mile Art, shirts and other gift items
Ain’t We Great?
Words are paint Paint becomes pixels Stone is chipped Chips in computers Memory is stored To interpret life Full of knowledge We but vaguely ken As each and all Seek understanding Artists all Seek to reveal As they create Ain’t we great? _________________ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent […]
May We Have This Dance?
When all becomes equal Universal leavening So-called heat death We avoid catastrophe Sacrifice also glory Filling and fulfilling Sublime Such sameness Falls together No longer galaxies Stars, planets, people No music of the spheres Clank and clamor of life Lost within Undifferentiated chaos In and in and in Chaos pulls together Grows smaller, denser Seeking […]
The Spaces Between
Shall we talk then Shall we sing Discuss Rachmaninov Analyze Proust Remembrance of future things Will you tell me No one knows What tomorrow brings As musicians fingers fly Over strings, along the keys Quickly, quickly Come listen Not only notes, words Intonation, intention Momentary suspension Of belief, disbelief Worry, care Moments in amber Aria […]
Resonance
Does the human voice Beautiful, resonant Moving, harsh Croaking, damaged Call to us Bring to us Wisdom, stories We cannot imagine Make-up ourselves Neither exact Nor strictly accurate But more true Than reality itself
Truth Finds a Way
A hall of repeating patterns revealed Lines, squares, columns and capitals Straight, undulating, solo, combined Define our world in shapes and lines Like Booker’s seven basic story plots Shapes and line are limited and finite Until magical combination, creation World shown new, never seen before A secret we search for throughout life Our imperfect combinations […]
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