Category Poetry

What We Lack

~~~~~ Rain patters, drops on the roof, tickles the windows, plops in puddles. Laughs, cries, reminds us of sunlight, which is always there, though unseen. We no longer believe the sun rests when we can see it no longer, Whether night or clouds, our own cave, where we crawl to disappear. The only one who […]

The Score

~~~~~ Target Practice ~ Philip Brent Harris Does your life sound off to you; dissonant and assonant? Is it flat or sharp, despite the score on which you must perform it? ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See […]

The Only Sound You Hear

~~~~~ Magnificent, when you’re sure you hear the stars singing, the earth laughing in tune with you. Because you’re in love. for the first time, though each time is first. That’s simply the way love works, whether you remember or not a time where the only sound you hear is each other. Moments, minutes, days, […]

The Home You Built

~~~~~ The strife and turmoil which sometimes visits every relationship when the barometric pressure rises and hard silence rules. At times you think your ears will pop; deaf for a reason the reason for the trouble hidden from you even if hidden by you until something must be said, despite the repercussions. Many may forget […]

A Roosevelt Elk faces the setting sun.

On the Page

~~~~~ Does the world beat you bloody, and slowly tenderize your brain? Could your deity help? Would he? Let you splatter the page, to stain ? ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings […]

Without a Single Word

~~~~~ Flowing Through Time ~ Philip Brent Harris We walk slowly towards the entrance as the crowd grows around us. We hear conversations. You reach and take my hand. Love floods through me in a current; no place can I imagine I would rather be We dance, run, skip, still hand in hand. Through the […]

Flowing Along

~~~~~   Where are all the people we used to know? Their track has faded, gone, dropped away. Was it us or them who decided to go? Or, Ask the same question about who stayed. Stranger becomes acquaintance, then friend. They stay and play a while or even longer. Job changes moves, ennui, a loss […]

Does That Count?

~~~~~ Count the steps as you descend into the cool depth of the unknown. There’s movement and music hidden behind closed doors. It is so lovely. Why must it be locked away, alone? Is it only you who are barred? You cannot imagine any reason, anything that you might have done to offend anyone; except […]

Stop Reminding Us

~~~~~ The birds are singing sweetly, swirling, soaring and diving to nature’s rhythms of their own. They are glorious to hear as they trade verses. Each from their own avian symphony. Yet, the metropolis intrudes. There’s no way to silence it, or so it always seems to me. Let us walk together, into the country […]

We Begin

~~~~~ Fly forth radiant doves, Stygian corvids, bright birds of all nations. Fill the sky with sound and color so staggering, we begin to think/ ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: […]