Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
We Might Roam
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ O, to see our brilliant world again reflected in ocean’s waters of blue. Sparkling around a dwindling white sail, while wondering where it is wandering. Is it following the wind’s four quarters guided so by an engraved compass rose. Or will it return to a safe harbor? From […]
Far Too Late
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Even when I have much to say, it doesn’t seem to matter as I listen to the pundits, they whine and buzz and natter. Though, I suppose, more people listen to them than to me. So what I have to say doesn’t mean what it means, I see. […]
Reminding Us to Remember
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Going in, Leading Out ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Are you able to read the signs? The ones which are written and those which are not? The ones engraved on the past, those noticed or ignored now. What of those carried on the wind, waves from the near or […]
Linger in Ways
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Artists, writers, others may bring us emotions they felt but could only express in a language not yet understood and perhaps never spoken. Think Wolfe, Picasso, Plath and so many you and I have never known. Or, at least, not today. We may only hope that someday we […]
Something My Father Taught Me
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The frog am a queer little bird him am. When him walk him hop him do. When him sit down, him sit down On him little tail, which him hardly ain’t got ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! […]
Love is All
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Ancient before time, impenetrable void waited. Crawled from its atomic shell; instantaneous illumination flared. Newborn this moment. A swirling figure moves, is every moment. Innocently wise, hopeful, in constant conflict. Cooperation in every interchange. Full of wonder, every and all stories. Worth living for, growing, expansive. Worth dying […]
May Sweetly Smell
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ We are not well. How can you tell? Why, it is the smell But let’s not dwell. Let’s sit, think a spell. Can we excise or expel Bad eggs and their shells? We might then excel I mean, who can tell? We may sweetly smell If we can […]
Just Wait
A Positive Little Ditty About Our Future People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ And again, today I got reminded Western Monarch butterflies hover, 2,000 left, on the edge, extinction. Because I imagine we are as well, I cannot imagine that this matters. What’s that? You think I am crazy. There are over 7 ½ […]
An Argument for the Elimination of Footwear
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I can hear the naysayers already.What fool would ever shun shoes?Hear me out. That’s all I ask you.While I understand shoes benefit,I espouse it’s less than we’ve lost. Going barefoot made us cautiousWhen every step held danger, pain‘neath our ambulation. Even death,May await any distracted attention.Bad outcome, I’d […]
The Most Obvious
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The first day of a new month has come. Countdown to the middle of each year. This marked different meanings to some When the day and night grew equal near. What is, was the meaning of man’s time While we still site sacred days, seasons? Perhaps it says […]
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