Category politics
War on One is a War on All
~~~~~ We must learn that a war on one is a war on all. Not only nations, states, cities, communities, groups, ethnicities, orientations, political, sexual, and religious, but also on each individual, everywhere. Thus, if anyone harms another through venal, rapacious neglect or verifiable intention, they have harmed all. each and every animate and inanimate […]
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 […]
Wild Yeast
~~~~~ How will we cause the colors to appear when life appears black and white, blank, no matter where, how far away we gaze? We may as well gaze into our own navels. The permanent scar which marks us flesh proves little enough in its shy profundity. Whether we dance, caper, ramble, race, or march […]
All Day Long
~~~~~ I should be watching the primaries, and keeping track of all their races. but it has all become a terrible blur of many different names and faces. Online and daily news, all day long, inundated with figures and places. Makes me want to scurry and hide. Don’t think I’ll find enough paces. Some posit […]
Poets May
~~~~~ Poets may have no shame, yet it may beset their mind. Not many can expect fame. A few, plus some by dying. No shame will tell the truth: Cannot control their words, in their age or in their youth. Canary in a mine, other birds. Whether they whisper, shout Likely lost, left upon a […]
Cannot Replace
What do call 73 million dollars taken from a from manufacturers bank account? A good start. ~~~~~ 73 million dollars sure sounds like a lot. It’s not. Not when it is weighed against the loss of a child. ”Hey, that’s big bucks,” you say. “I’d give it a shot.” Parents’d give all to see when […]
It Is Time
~~~~~ It is a time of great hope. It is a time of great fear. It is a time of lies It is a time of truth. How do we gentle harsh lies, hatespeak? For we must not think to conquer it. When evil seeks to frighten and divide, agitating those who feel marginal, abandoned, […]
Begin, Become, Begone
~~~~~ Speaking now of old friends or of lovers from long ago. Where the closest may be lost or somehow replaced by others along the way. Yet, life continues along, with us or without us. Do you believe, perchance, when you are finally gone the universe vanishes. This, despite evidence to the contrary, science, perhaps, […]
Not As Ourselves
Sun in the Water ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ What rituals do we retain from ancient times?Primordial, primitive, leaving faint trace, no memory.When each morning the sun rising was pure magic,The setting sun called forth darkness, a time of fear. We have misplaced the magic, retained our night terror.Magic not lost entirely, yet glimpsed now […]
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