Category Science Fiction

Into the Wilderness

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Coming from the crowded places where people abide, I forget the vast stretches of open ground I see when I fly. It looks almost imagined it’s so enormous, with occasional straight lines, the sign of people. Perhaps, that’s the sure sign we don’t work with nature, follow […]

Life as We Have Lived It

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Fill my heart with all good things. Take from me the pain of grief. How will I know when one is transitioned to the other? Both are always present to some degree. And without pain, how will I recognize joy. Without chaos, how, then, peace. Chaos has […]

Please, Stay Tuned

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Today, I won the lottery for mega bucks and I’m walking around, chest puffed out. What can’t I do? who can’t I be? I suppose the most like person is me. Today, I walked upon the moon, right near where other folk have walked. Won’t they be […]

Neither Particle Nor Wave

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The luscious longitude of creation,languid latitude of space and time.Embodied in a being so giganticwe barely imagine we’re but part.Infinitesimal, until we grow vast Think a body made in the image of  a cosmos, embodying everything, nothing. Long before time began. If it indeed ever did so. […]

Theoretical History

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ What did the world look like before we arrived? What will it look like after we are years gone? In a distant future, will unknown alien archeologists dig artifacts from unmarked ground and wonder? What will they make of what they find and will their theories be […]

Everything You Are

~~~~~ Everything you see comes from an exploding star. Your laughter, your smile. Your anger, your eyes. Everything you hear comes from an exploding star. Your hopes, your dreams Your pains, your sorrows. Everything you recall comes from an exploding star. Your unborn children, your future. Your songs unsung, your wit Everything you touch comes […]

Will Teach Us to be Wise

When Air Becomes Breath ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ I find treasures on the beach all the time. They inform me, tell me about myself, in how and what they cause me to remember, where I stood and what I was doing. That first shell, sea glass, sand dollar, calls to mind other beaches. The […]

Not a Race

Memento Mori ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ When no joy of faith or belief sustains,While our crazy world carries on apace,Despite hymns or verse, I sing or retain,I rarely see more than my same old face. If each instant, choice makes a new lane,Is there a second I’d choose to replace?If each spawns the new, […]

Answer to an Unasked Question

~~~~~ Passionate Pacific my daily inspiration, sunlight, sand and surf. Murmured messages wash on shore, chased by crashing waves. Warm strand, moonlit, twinkling on the swells, reflecting earth, Wind, water, weather form transient art, the sea gives and takes. Humbled by such vastness of ocean, rolling beyond the horizon, This and more besides to stir […]

Happy Trails to You

Happy Trails to You ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ I look around and wonder what each of us sees. Where I sit, it’s cliché, the forest from the trees. I, like, listen to, like, voices impressed by, like; never mind, think I will go out for […]