Category politics
More Than
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Hanging Out 20-21 ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ How will we ever know what is rightDespite what all hierophants preach?How’ll we keep our fiery hope alight?Our answer’s unknown, but we reach. If a word, god, didn’t exist, now, everI cannot imagine the need to coin one.I been proven wrong, […]
Air and Magic
Taken from books I have recently read, am reading or intend to read in the future. Like a Cento, but not. People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I have run with fleet childrenwhere the forest meets the stars.I have pursued silence playingsolitaire out in the deserts far.Aristotle and Dante helped me learn the secrets […]
Don’t Jump
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Cats on a Ledge ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Please, don’t jump into the conversation if you haven’t thought it through. Don’t dump your baggage, free or bought at the drop of a word on any occasion. And please, don’t jump. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity […]
Elemental
Something old, yet, I persisted. People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Now, we sing hymns of praise, preach sermons of damnation.Who do we laud? Who do we curse?We pretend we march in lockstep, tied together in a three-legged raceattacking and retreating. Some people run, fight to finish first,drag their unwilling partners toward their dubious […]
What Else?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! You. Stop. Right Now. Whatever else you are doing, besides reading these words, and I know you’re doing something else, stop. In a world where multitasking is the norm and dealing with disparate desires and duties isthe only way to survive, simply doing one thing feels foolish, wasteful. Perhaps, […]
Quirks Work
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! What a Lovely Young Lady ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Writing in the first person can I be I sure I am writing as me? If I think I describe true events, what in my mind’s eye I see. Can I recount truthfully pictures I find lurking in my […]
The Ultimate Story
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ No matter how empty I may feelor how creative I hope I am.Does it matter in the long run?The answer is yes and no.Despite the finish line,we all must run the race.Run and race but metaphorsfor love, sorrow, pain, and cheer.They speak of all we fear and desire.The […]
Between the Atoms
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Every grain of sand that pings the glass. Every blood-drop shed may be your last. Every breath shared has history and time. Every step taken and each hill you climb. Parts of you sustained grass, filled the air and grew flowers, trees, leaves, animals. Despite what comprises you, […]
Littering the Landscape
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What will we do when we are gone? Will we regret our actions afterward, as our spirits watch the many squirrels? Will any being we leave behind mourn? Will they scent the winds, noticing our smell, food we left behind is vanished? Continue as they always have, consume […]
Never Understanding; It Will Not
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ So many people believe themselves the weavers of our tapestry or that it was woven for them alone. One way they are right; their actions creating the warp and the weft, life’s visage. They are also wrong. This tapestry’s design existed longer than they’ve been alive or could […]
thepensmight.com 