Category Thoughts about change

In League

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ In League I would climb upon the stars So I might hear your thoughts. Though I am driving into bars, while jumping over draughts. I am hunting beneath the grass. I wonder which side I am on? If it is all the […]

Do Us A Favor

Do Us A Favor For all the shooters out there, I have a request Whether you hail from the east or from the west If shooting many people jumps into your head Do us a favor, stay home, shoot yourself instead

All Deserving

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ All Deserving ~~~~~ Whether you think you lost or won No matter what your views may be On the president now, the last one Or, indeed, on the other forty-three The time has come to make a stand For all of us, […]

To Do

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ To Do ~~~~~ I have written words of late And more than just a few Muse of verse made no date What’s a simple poet to do? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See […]

Arrival Time Undisclosed

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength,  Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Arrival Time Undisclosed Wandering into my neighborhood at night Wondering what water in gutters gurgles, What it chuckles down drains, in a deluge But my face turns to eye distant dwellings Their lights seen from atop a hill I climbed Spellbinding, sweet […]

May Be Far

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ May Be Far ~~ To see the world of others As the have seen themselves Whether in a past or future Across the ocean in other lands Across the sea of vasty space Greeted by an unknown people A tribe that we […]

Never Alone

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Never Alone ~~ In vast crowds Humanity Footsteps, high-pitched, Staccato constancy Remind me Of bird chicks, Insistent, helpless Without nourishment Fickle succor — there, gone Inconsistent, snatched away Driven, in danger Unexpected abandonment Vagaries of nature Meaning all of us All the […]

Proximity

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Proximity ~~ Stillness in the deeps Spaces between Shall we find Music, light Darkness pervasive Hope, mourning Night, morning Spiraling, spinning Comets singing, Each to each Like whale song Which we recognize But cannot comprehend So far, so fast Indescribable, unimaginable Boon […]

What More?

What More? ~~~~~ Some done, some left The tally of each day We the warp and weft What more need I say? ~~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings and opinions at: Philip Brent Digital Art Philip Brent Digital Art and Photography lifenart2@gmail.com Brent Harris Fine Art Brent Harris Fine Art brentharrisfineart@gmail.com Vida Voices Scriggler TPM […]

Absurd

Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~ Absurd ~~~~~ On a purloined piece of paper A couple of interesting books Write poetry burning life’s taper ‘Cause I can’t get by on my looks ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ See more […]