Category politics
What We Think We Held
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ It took nearly as long for sunlight to reach your eye As it did for George Floyd to be murdered and die. Even these words you read are already in the past, although it may be, a mere nanosecond has passed. Still, a year ago or five minutes […]
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Tomorrow will soon to become today. Tomorrow, you know, does not exist. Tomorrow will you say you love me? Tomorrow will you know I love you? Tomorrow is such a meaningless idea. Tomorrow is a concept that gives hope. Tomorrow always pretends it awaits us. Tomorrow, we can’t […]
Gatherings In Absentia
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Family gatherings and celebrations, those personal, secular, and religious moments many now no longer await. They’ll be remembered and honored. Not in the same way, the same place. When the specter of love occupies an empty chair in another missing room. What if one person, the emotional glue […]
Loss of Innocence
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Citizens buy automatic weapons. Innocents die. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what you think. Philip Brent Harris Fine Art, Digital Art and Photography Brent Harris Fine Art Wall […]
They Might Grow Up
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Emergency, emergency, everybody to clear the streets,The cowboys are coming, the cowboys are coming. Come on, people, get a grip, let us have our say.What we’ll put forth, here, is the American way.Guns toted openly on a hip, hidden under arm,You know it’s only the bad folks they […]
Six Words Sadness
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ As lock-down eases mass shootings resume. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know what you think. Philip Brent Harris Fine Art, Digital Art and Photography Brent Harris Fine Art Wall Art, […]
Going Out
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Going out in the world again in an extremely limited way. The more people in the bargain the shorter the time we’ll stay. I acknowledge I’m very lucky, graced with love I can cherish. I’m not sure I could be plucky seeing the people I love perish. Once […]
What is There to Lose?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Soldier straight, Their brother stands, Their sister stands. While they reach out Their untouched hands. We step beneath Their outstretched arms, Unable to imagine all Myriad and costly harms. Cost of life, of hope, in pain Dwarfing any envisioned gain Humankind is anything but kind. We need but […]
I Heard
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ (The importance of negative space.) I heard Monarch butterflies migrating through California have dwindled from millions to around two thousand or so. With them go the insects who help pollinate all of our crops. Will we pollinate by hand, let plants not grow, trees perish? Those we haven’t […]
Pain and Fear
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Listen and do not make a sound. What do you hear, your thoughts? Though someone is always around. Sound contagious, brains may clot. Wait, perhaps I realized something. Part of our stress is noise we hear. Where nature restores, so we sing, Our days all beset by pain […]
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