Category Ponder Rosa
All Times
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Times come and times go, but often they’re the same, whether good or ill or full of doubt or fame. I don’t know what times means, it could be just the math. I’ll take it for what I can find. The world full of peace or wrath. […]
End Up Dead
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Going in and going out, can you tell me now or later, What it’s all about? It doesn’t matter what I have known or when. I have known it, been it. Miracles and sins. Then always comes too late. Not a question of love or fate. Straight […]
Or Not ~ old, but to honor EM’s murder of a bird
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ X marks the spot, cross your heart, hope to die. Swear it’s here where your ex was, or was not. Your ex, until he or she got burned, was cross. Cross the street and join me, make no excuse. Tightly woven patterns, some might be of use. Can […]
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 […]
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 […]
An IMMODEST PROPOSAL
“War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength; Trumpery is Reality” ~~~~~ I have vowed to mark this tragic date by offering my Immodest Proposal until we come to our senses regarding gun violence. Unfortunately, I may have to post this the rest of my life. Though this will appear on December 15th for […]
Insanity In General
Sung to the tune of, I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Buffa Operetta, The Pirates of Penzance. We are the very model of insanity in general We’ve information violent, atrocical and criminal We know the guns of murder, and we quote the deaths statistical From Birmingham to Newtown in order […]
No Guarantee
For my friend, Chris. He’ll know why. Blow it up or blow it down No point us hanging around We start again as a beginner If we lived as saint or sinner Still and all, it’s been before Not by us, so now our chore Some craven but some brave Dumb, brazen sum’s a grave […]
Why the Sky is Green
What do I see around me? Some scientists would say nothing. It is all electromagnetic light waves entering my eye, transmitted by electrical impulses into my brain, which translates it into what I perceive. From the time light waves strike my eye until I “see” an image takes about a tenth of a second, 0.1. […]
One Step
I walked to a park in a neighborhood I was familiar to me, but not my own. The world had impinged upon me, darkened my mood and I had allowed it to do so. Watching a local sports team I loosely follow, I began feeling defeated. Not only were they losing, but also playing poorly. […]