Category Poetry
Driving Past Pandemic Views
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ As is true of the past, and even more so now, It grows smaller as it becomes days of yore. The future grows brighter, I am not sure how, as 2020, 2021 fade in our year-view mirror. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy […]
Future Worth
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Blue skies today follow clouds, dark with rain gushing like tears. Staying home, my head bowed. My device reinforcing my fears. We are daily fed a diet fit to kill. Madness, mayhem everywhere. Many people do what they will. As we who comply, shout unfair. We must decide […]
Happy Holidays
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ It has been a wild and crazy year; some of it was bad and some good. Happy to say, “We’re still here!” retain a mostly positive attitude. My wife needed an ablation and I fell down more times than once. Like all, struggled with inflation. Stood up again, […]
Learned From my Father-in-Law
~~~~~ Everywhere it rains, it raineth on the just and unjust fellows. But mostly on the just because the unjust have the just’s umbrellas. ~~~~~ 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: […]
Dream Strange Dreams
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Patterns upon patterns upon patterns. All our world is full of shapes and lines. Some appear solid, but science says no. Some are shadows and reflections of us, Our world patterns cast upon everything. How to know, what is real, what is not? Is it a question, or […]
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 […]
Music Follows Me
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I could not stand to dance the Tango. Meaning to climb to my feet and bow. Strike the classic starting pose, begin. Whirling round the floor, my partner’s red skirts flaring and falling in a dance they alone know, pace and the rhythms. My partner and I both […]
Thoughts and Words
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ There are some thoughts and words I lost. Never to recall them or have them return. Perhaps, not brilliant, but oh what a cost. Knowing they had been; will I ever learn? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! […]
Circle Round
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Can everyone read my name in everything I write? Am I clearer writing by day or do I shine at night? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Harris […]
To Love or Mourn
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ A concert performance of Shostakovitch String Quartet #8 Dedicated “to the victims of fascism and the war.” Slow and sonorous, is how we choose to begin Lush and lovely strings, filled with dissonance. Why must we write music full of tragedy, pain? It’s part of all there is, […]
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