Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
What Shall I Do?
I’m troubled. As well as being a writer, I am also a fine artist and a digital artist. All three pursuits have either begun or found their form within the past decade. Though I have lived three-score and five years, and have finally found what I want to be when I grow up. Oil painting […]
Temporal Expense
Do we now Muddled men Fetished females Spend time Like bits of metal Paper, information To prove We are living Collected, reflected Twittering birds Speaking, seeking Connection Within Books of faces Recognition Without, Incomplete meaning Distant acquaintances Lost friends Some remembered Many forgotten Or never met Face to face Impersonal Person-to-person call Do people now […]
The Rest
Things that are lost may reappear Or never show up at all, my dear Neither rhyme nor reason suffices Will explain our talents and vices Despite what doctors, shrinks say It’s all a mystery, but you will pay Knowledge bubbles up from below A truth we cannot possibly know In the end, wonder what it […]
Let Them Sing
Oh how wonderful, wonderfully odd Our setting for this intimate concert Flute, harp and viola sing and dance In an immense, stone museum gallery Plain, but artful to the towering walls White dressed blocks of quarried stone Above a darker gray stone wainscoting A marble floor, patterns within patterns Stark, modern chrome and resin chairs […]
Saving Grace
Life, all life, seeks to grow and continue. To do so, some other life is on the menu. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art Vida Voices Scriggler TPM Niume The Extra Mile Art, shirts and other gift items
In Conjunction
I guarantee, it is a simple concept, truthfully The way storytellers turn form into function Basics below, transitions between noted duly Problem, challenges, solution, in conjunction See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art Vida Voices Scriggler TPM Niume The Extra Mile Art, shirts and other gift items
I’ve Heard
Certainty, it’s said, is fleeting It may vanish upon meeting Or offer you a warm greeting You hope it will last a lifetime Pray that it will be your lifeline Most lose it, such a rife crime It’s ephemeral, so it’s precious Though it can turn you vicious Believe it, it’s gone, suspicious Belief is […]
Or Just Perhaps
Still, the phone’s come out In the briefest of interludes As if earth-shattering events May have changed the world During this brief interruption Or just perhaps, Aunt Tilly Posted cute pictures of her cat ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art Vida Voices Scriggler TPM Niume […]
Of Bees and Butterflies
Quickly, run, race, hurry! Please Dash with me into the meadow Away from the crash and bang City bustle, to watch butterflies Bees flit from flower to flower To slowly stroll on the pathway Listen, a gently flowing stream The water, life moving with us Then, racing ahead, who knows A fish jumps, startled, […]
A Mirror’s Glass in Darkness
Always give your heart to those you can Everyone can hear what you might think Every time you open your mouth, speak Brilliant bon mots, also tarnished tropes Spew like vomit when you’re distracted At other times, though you feel focused Creating is your being when ideas dance Water beads sizzling in a searing […]
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