Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Only You
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Remember, the narrative of your life’s quite unique. All the most exciting or mundane days yours alone. Given anyone’s praise or their harsh critique, only you decide worth, faults for which you must atone. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, […]
Gather Our Folly
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ May I take on the travails of our small garden of Earth? No god or saint, I’m simply willing. Surely I must not be alone in this, the capacity to bear the burdens we have packed and long-shouldered? Through our hubris and false belief, misplaced confidence, we […]
Within My Heart
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Heart of the Matter ~ Philip Brent Harris Within my heart, love expands. It grows, pushes against walls which you know are love itself, disguised as our friable flesh. Love carries blood throughout our fleeting houses, using it and replenishing it with the breath of the love […]
Darkness or Dawn?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ The rill trips down the watercourse, empties into a sheltered, shadowed pool where leaves float. Pool’s end, where the water drains, the sun glints, dances, and dazzles, forming ripples. Watch the stream broaden and slow, as rainbow hues glance from the sunlight shining low. Is it now the […]
Angelique
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The club, dark and smokey with pot and hash; cigarettes de classe. Whiskey and gin flow like the oasis fountains, As there, the air filled with foreign tongues all converse. Tables are full, the bar stands three deep. Men and women drink beer and vodka. While the […]
We Are One
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Sound the horns of color. Heralds of a new day. Slowly seen and rapidly forgotten. When the sun awakes, peaks above the horizon. Glory we observe, going forth into warmth or stepping into the storm. We are nourished on a world not designed for us, by us, […]
Our Own Song
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ When tomorrow forgets it once was a mystery. Now, it is only the past. Recent or ancient history, no matter how late or long, we wait to find our own song. ~~~~~ Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Unite the World […]
Exactly Where and When
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Lost in time and in space, unconcerned, utterly relaxed. What to worry? You’re still part of all creation and as creation fills you, you recall it’s impossible to be lost, wherever you may be now. Like the eternal now, the eternal you, always present. Though sometimes more […]
The Bus Pulls Away
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ The clock ticks and time races. Move to the country, time slows. It can’t be just clock or location, but I will bet no one truly knows. The country, an unexploded bomb. We had best hope time stands still. Ticks last hours, sweat on our brow. If […]
Awe the Key
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ ~~~~~ Imagine you’re running in a wildflower field. Bright yellow dominant, accented by purple, red, blue, white, and green, plus sharp and subtle tones of noise. A kaleidoscopic crescendo of colors, shapes, and heady scents, All designed to hold you captive within the sanctuary of your soul. Awe […]