Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

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 […]

A dichotomy of dark and light where the colors seem unable to meet, though uA dichotomy of dark and light where the colors seem unable to meet, though ultimately they are all the same.

Ain’t We Great?

Words are paint Paint becomes pixels Stone is chipped Chips in computers Memory is stored To interpret life Full of knowledge We but vaguely ken As each and all Seek understanding Artists all Seek to reveal As they create Ain’t we great? _________________ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent […]

May We Have This Dance?

When all becomes equal Universal leavening So-called heat death We avoid catastrophe Sacrifice also glory Filling and fulfilling Sublime Such sameness Falls together No longer galaxies Stars, planets, people No music of the spheres Clank and clamor of life Lost within Undifferentiated chaos In and in and in Chaos pulls together Grows smaller, denser Seeking […]

All Our Winding Ways

What are the ways We navigate life Paths we follow What we choose Life chooses for us Locked in Sterile cubicles No matter How, how much We strive To create Make them ours Locked in To desks To dos and don’ts Our duties Trapped in cells Apps, smart phones Toys and  gadgets Budgets, burdens Balls […]

Exciting New Designs

  VIDA VOICES Philip Brent Signature Collection Fun and Exciting New Designs for Spring and Summer And more to come Here are two to new patterns to whet your appetite. Please stroll through my collection by clicking on any image or link. When you find something you like, take advantage of one of the following […]

Buy and Bye

Can you tell us of days, our future cast How we fared and how long did we last Not really important in the grand scheme Everything changes; know what I mean All of our glories and all of our horrors Blink of an eye; so much less than hours We all think we matter; I’m […]

Place Your Bets

I cannot tell you that I do not care World’s state leads me to despair All the greed, hatred and stupidity Can’t be the only one who can see Hate when I’m in this kind of funk Stinks worse than smell of a skunk Thank anyone who make me laugh Might even invite them on […]