Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
What and Why
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What? In a nation founded On the genocide of One people and fostered By the enslavement Of another Why do we still need to ask this shit? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Do you want a President who thinks nuclear weapons may be a viable option?
What and Why
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What? In a nation founded On the genocide of One people and fostered By the enslavement Of another Why do we still need to ask this shit? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Next Question: Do you want a President who mocks the disabled? Save
Drawn Together
I see our world grows ever smaller Cultures interact around the globe A wind blows outside, shakes trees Eyes open, I’m shaking in my boots A scientist thinks Earth is shrinking Our world’s actually getting smaller Says gravity’s the culprit, who knew More I pondered, more sense it made Is gravity a prosaic name for […]
Lies and Truth
What ways We wander Wonder why Search, seek Twisted trails Tall tales Following fools Meaning morsels Broken breadcrumbs Mired meanders Wide walkways Paved pathways Rural roads Long lanes Dusty drives Graveled grades Sleek superhighways Cacophonous cities Electronic expressways Digital dead-ends Exploring escape Though terrified Buffaloed by Trying times Failing physiques Alliterative advertising Risible rhymes Nonstop […]
Still Today
Still today I plan and dream Long years Past, forgotten Perhaps forgiven Rent, riven Rendered mute Memory shifts Slips, loose pebbles Hold your breath Rattle, clatter Hope, pray Quaking, trembling Shifting sands Cease moving Sound silences No babies laugh No ancient sages Share ignored wisdom Until they Themselves Ignore their own Truth and meaning Realizing, […]
Oh Yeah!
(note: The map above show the areas we, the immigrants, divided a land already lived in by the Native American tribes overlaid.) What Donald Trump’s campaign has in common with World Wresting Entertainment and a possible clue to his popularity. I’ve scattered a half dozen quotes below. See if you can guess who said […]
What?
The question is not whether god is dead How many angels can dance on the head Of some fabled, imaginary straight pin But whether such fool’s sophistry is sin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 […]
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 […]
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