Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Is It Simply?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Walk with me a while, holding hands. The leaves turn red, die. Snow falls, a soft blanket to cover us, smooth the lumps and bumps of our lives. All a grand illusion, artist’s sleight of hand, our hidden creation. Still, our steps are only preparation, practice, until we […]
Vox Clamantis in Deserto
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ This verse has been modified from one I wrote, Full Stop, in August of 2014. What will it take for our madness to stop? If it ever does. More senseless killings, now Tennessee, another school is violated. Three adults and three children, stricter gun laws are indicated. Not […]
What the Future
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ Making new connections never known, expected. Found by reaching out. Who knows what the future holds, what any move may change, to what comes after? Every moment passes by. Every glance, nod, head shake, and breath births new chances and possibilities. Unless we stop, flinch, stay in a […]
Seeking Always to Return
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Dancing here, watching you dancing there, another step. Similar to mine, sometimes, counterpointed, turned away. I reach out, offering my steps to you, hoping you will try. Will we walk in tandem then together or walk another way? I do not, cannot know, though I yearn to shelter […]
A Country Alone
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The organ’s sonorous voice carries the mourners from the church out into a rain of tears flooding a bright, sunny day. fuzzing sight, and calling the past present. Too much food; some of it strange that we’ll never eat. Fueled by memory, sharing. potluck casseroles, alcohol, we will […]
Reaching Home
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ This is how it always is, though no way close to what you or I think, have decided it must be. Yet, what you believe may become your vision. Perhaps, for a time, you will convince me it’s mine. I would not persuade you to follow what I […]
A Different Day
~~~~~ In this instant generation is it ever just now? If each moment an anticipated future, how? Recording all our lives for future delectation Can existence contain any new expectation? Will it ever be right now, this moment, day? Can we live now while deciding what to say? It is said, our history is written […]
Not One Little Bit
~~~~~ Is life less or more difficult than we make it? Do our choices control how our days will go? Some say they know; but I think they fake it. Each life may be better, worse than we know. No matter, I guarantee, it keeps us on our toes. When it feels like all we […]
Only Time Knows
~~~~~ So sing, dance, cry, yell and scream until you are fully awake. Only time knows what that will mean ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Harris Fine Art, […]
Another’s Dream
~~~~~ Themes of water and waiting Speak to me, beg to come out and play across every page. I must carefully protect them. Stains, tears, random sweat. What grace flows through me? Labors of love spiced by tears When I, another captures ink, flowing into Rorschach blots. They become different words than those I scribble […]