Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
Laid Low
Sitting here and succumbing to the idiot box While doing my best an idiot not to become All the world’s knowledge at my fingertips I do believe that that would be really dumb Am I deaf to reason, blind to illumination? Watch flickering images, hear braying asses How then can everything seem so clear to […]
Whoa or Woe
Are you considered ignorant and so uncouth When vomiting words you cannot constrain? A wag once called this diarrhea of the mouth Which is caused by constipation of the brain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art Vida Voices Scriggler TPM Niume The Extra Mile Art, […]
Breakfast Anyone?
Breath away sleep In the glimmering dawn Roosters crow Like clarion horns Some have been Long awake Secret lovers Their leave to take Mothers, fathers Children to shake Night terrors Long passed away Snagged and held On the sharp edges Of breaking day Powerless, forgotten As an egg’s yellow yolk Hidden in darkness Until the […]
Point Counterpoint
Patterns, all is patterns The world over We struggle to comprehend Seeing faces In the rug Monsters, creatures, demons In chipped paint Puddles on the street Yet, we deny Or try Abnegate such apparitions As fancy only Too frightened To believe It might be another Reality Until art Intrudes in all forms Myriad manifestations Music, […]
That’s What I Think
God’s feet I imagine Would not fit In my backyard Nor in the town Where I live Being so large God must be clumsy Or, perhaps, allergic To us, to people Do god’s sneezes Bring storms Mayhap god trips Steps into the ocean Causing rough seas Floods and tsunamis Eating suns, novae Hot breath or […]
So Only
Whenever we interpret, translate, transcribe The work of other brilliant women and men Do we add the most to this by staying silent Diminishing our voice so only theirs is heard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art Vida Voices Scriggler TPM Niume The Extra Mile […]
What’s Wrong With That?
We live in a world driven by money. What’s wrong with that? So what if we sell harmful products like cigarettes, vape, alcohol, guns, whatever. I think everyone has the right to pick their own poison, to kill themselves in whatever manner they choose. Except, when they aim those choices at children, create products that […]
What I Always Expected
He was sure he could encompass it all Inside of his brain, his body, his being A world grown oh so incredibly small With little work all would be agreeing But we did not agree and battles raged Despite how tightly all were connected Not yet evolved, our animal’s uncaged And really, it’s what I […]
Hear Here
Music Translates Emotions Into sound We need Only listen Everywhere Music is found ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art Vida Voices New patterns celebrate spring and summer Scriggler TPM Niume The Extra Mile Art, shirts and other gift items
Without Thinking
Hark Listen now Softly Attune Your ears To hear Without Thinking Speaking Judging Focus now Fully Understand Complex Concepts Simply Are simple Unless Our minds Interfere ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 […]
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