Category Thoughts about change
What Mouth Talking, Which Ears Hear?
Oh please let us have just one more child We promise to raise them meek and mild Never mind the children we will conceal Who will have to learn to cheat and steal Population worry is only for the poorest We are the richest, so all should adore us Population worry must haunt the richest […]
Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver
Chapter Two Darkness, blacker and denser than the heart of a black hole enveloped Toliver. He thought he blinked his eyes, but there was no reference, no way to compare. He could not feel his body below his neck, but his mouth felt stuffed with worms. Part of him thought he should gag, but it […]
Serial Tuesday ~ Toliver
Toliver by Philip Brent Harris Introduction In the shantyghetto of Mudfog can be found a broad array of those lowest on the social ladder; a rickety affair with many rotten and broken rungs. For all that, these are just people like people everywhere. They love, argue, dream and often fail, like you or I […]
Wag Chins, Flap Gums
Well, they all do make really valid points Though their topic of discussion is unclear If we all sit down and smoke several joints We will then believe we’ve nothing to fear How do we deal with overdose information Religion, drugs, sex, TV, or move a mouse Whatever, we succumb, labor or recreation King, queen […]
Till Next Time
Recently, I have struggled trying to write All the words I choose simply take flight And my love of the page I cannot requite Though I try and try with all of my might Love isn’t claimed or conquered by force Still, boldness is often required, of course Perhaps fighting a duel or racing a […]
Waiting Again
Waiting again So much time Spent waiting Inundated, inundating Conditioned response Absolutely predictable As expected Reflected, reflecting Drab brown walls Life stalls In an office Anywhere Waiting room False cheer Of coffee Coffee houses Where we wait Where we wait for, on Ex-, current-, future Spouses Others Significant Or otherwise So much So much more […]
Hark
Hark, there has been yet another mass shooting And for me, at least, such news is growing so old Headlines all become just me-too dull and boring And I’d think us better off if we were never told This wild-west shoot-em-up now commonplace And it blurs together, so oft echoed, a daily cant So numbed […]
Now
Wherever humans have been, there has been war In this instant there is time to change how we are Wherever humans have been, there has been peace In this instant there is time to let all conflict cease Wherever humans have been, we ward community In this instant there is time to know all must […]
In Dreams One Night
In my dreams one night I heard such music Soft and sweet, so simple yet so complete Never imagined I such music, as I listened It wafted through me, with lightning force Aware it spoke to only me, I got so confused Lost, I wandered, desolate and disconsolate Our world’s clangorous cacophony unheard Withint distant […]
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