AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL                                                                                              For Preventing the Poor Children of the People of the United States of America From Being the Innocent Victims of Lunatics, Madmen, and Terrorists, both Foreign and Domestic, and For Protecting All Citizens of This Great Nation of Ours It is a melancholy object lesson to those who walk the highways […]

~~~~~ Everywhere it rains, it raineth on the just and unjust fellows. But mostly on the just because the unjust have the just’s umbrellas. ~~~~~ People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment  Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: […]

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Patterns upon patterns upon patterns. All our world is full of shapes and lines. Some appear solid, but science says no. Some are shadows and reflections of us, Our world patterns cast upon everything. How to know, what is real, what is not? Is it a question, or […]

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ When did we waste the reality of simple things? Where watching the wonder of a far horizon is like listening to the voice when an angel sings? Nothing religious or mystic found around here. No less magical is the sound of a human voice. Why did we sacrificed […]

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I could not stand to dance the Tango. Meaning to climb to my feet and bow. Strike the classic starting pose, begin. Whirling round the floor, my partner’s red skirts flaring and falling in a dance they alone know, pace and the rhythms. My partner and I both […]

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ There are some thoughts and words I lost. Never to recall them or have them return. Perhaps, not brilliant, but oh what a cost. Knowing they had been; will I ever learn? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment  Unite the World! […]

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Himself ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ This man writes constantly about peace and war. What is he saying? Writes and writes some more, has he become a bore? He abjures praying. He is trying to point out we’re more than broken. How we balk. Does he think he’s the […]

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I yearn not for truth alone. It surrounds me, ever and always. Each breath and every moment. I refuse to imagine gods to bear my pain, shoulder my burdens during my brief moments of flesh, this illusion of being alone. How can I ever be alone? Warmed as […]

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Can everyone read my name in everything I write? Am I clearer writing by day or do I shine at night? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment  Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Harris […]

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ A concert performance of Shostakovitch String Quartet #8 Dedicated “to the victims of fascism and the war.” Slow and sonorous, is how we choose to begin Lush and lovely strings, filled with dissonance. Why must we write music full of tragedy, pain? It’s part of all there is, […]