Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Sixth Extinction Blues
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Here’s Looking at You ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Humans are nature and nature is them. We’re near closure. Will we spin again? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent […]
Slaked and Sated
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Falling Water ~~~~~ The water descends in trickling rills.Light plays on the surface as it turns,flows together into a deepening pool.Sunlight strikes brief, bright sparks.Separate, anticipated yet unexpected.Their beauty from light sweet treasureWhere next will we discover lifegivingwater which we can never quaff. Still, We perceive our thirst has […]
Tag, You’re It
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Zwilling Rabenburg ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Out in the world again, on an unseasonably hot day. In the car watching cactus bloom after torrential rains. So, we live day to day, learn to take what comes as it may. No reason to ruin our time together, over the […]
The Time Has Come
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ And now the time has come, he said, to wisely wonder where we are. When few have all, many beg for bread, it appears we have gone far too far. Does anyone now even remember where we thought we were going? Did we start this trip one December? […]
Me, Myself and Why
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Wings ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ I’m a clever fellow, if I say so myself. I make green from blue and yellow When I pull paint from off my shelf, I paint pictures, then some I’d sell Must market better if I am to win. Something I’m not doing […]
The Spaces Between Redux
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Fire Seeks Surface ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Shall we talk then, shall we sing, discuss Rachmaninoff, analyze Proust, remembrance of future things? Will you tell me no one knows what tomorrow brings? As musicians fingers fly, over strings, along the keys; quickly, quickly, come listen. Not only notes, […]
Nor Any Other
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I know the truth. You know it, too. And so does everyone we know. As children unlearn what they knew. The connections deep within them which recognizes infinite possibility. They know miracles mere party tricks and magic is the norm; in no way evil nor any other manufactured […]
Remarkable as Tinkerbell
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ All our time, the hours spent practicing,for most of us means little more than life.Masters may be born with talent; it’s true.Yet they are taught by other masters, whilewe learn from other folk like me and you.Our parents and their parents back in time.Each set, we hope, learned […]
After I Am Gone
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ There is no use complaining I did not start too late, but being an older white guy is no longer the thing to be. What has that to do with anything? Not much if I stay true to my vision and my choices; it’s all that I can […]
Don’t Judge
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! The Challenger ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ This bench becomes much more crowded.I await what the afternoon might reveal.I went to Chicago in San Francisco. Wow!Still, I remain uncertain exactly how I feel.My brain is expanded into my entire being.The spirals of creation reign and shower us.Surfeits of knowledge […]
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