Tag Archives: art
Ever Shifting Terrain
Just Hanging ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ The sweet trilling of the flowers, baritone voices from an old grove. Neighbors for thousands of years find new sympathies to share or embellish the same stories, again, old conflicts in different ways than on myriad other days, other years. Bees buzz between boles, intent upon the bright […]
Silence is More
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Waiting for my party to gather around. Watching as the line crawls forward. Reading of a man seeking for no sound Positing silence is more than its own reward. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ Please, leave […]
Isn’t Up to Me
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I tell you I have no time for art although, I seem to find a way to pass my studio; I stay away. When I go, I’m overwhelmed. Too much mess to contemplate. So, what exactly is the question? Is it why I don’t make it priority if […]
Sarabande for Missing Magic, Redux
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Missing magic, miracles all vanished, hidden from everyone. From vast spaces gone. Into unseen minuscule interstices, between atoms disappeared. Despite clues, maps and legends, whispered rumors, whereabouts remained unknown Some mounted quests. Heroes came forth. Solo adventurers, robber’s trusts, fellowships. All trekked far, endured miles uncounted. Summits scaled, […]
Far Too Late
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Even when I have much to say, it doesn’t seem to matter as I listen to the pundits, they whine and buzz and natter. Though, I suppose, more people listen to them than to me. So what I have to say doesn’t mean what it means, I see. […]
Reminding Us to Remember
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Going in, Leading Out ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Are you able to read the signs? The ones which are written and those which are not? The ones engraved on the past, those noticed or ignored now. What of those carried on the wind, waves from the near or […]
Linger in Ways
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Artists, writers, others may bring us emotions they felt but could only express in a language not yet understood and perhaps never spoken. Think Wolfe, Picasso, Plath and so many you and I have never known. Or, at least, not today. We may only hope that someday we […]
Eternity Eternally
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ In the never was the always And the ever was. It was ever never always And it always never was. If you’d think to fight with me, I’d argue day and night. Spirit alone knows what will be. Trust neither brain nor sight. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence […]
Something My Father Taught Me
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The frog am a queer little bird him am. When him walk him hop him do. When him sit down, him sit down On him little tail, which him hardly ain’t got ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! […]
Things I Learned From my Father-in-Law
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Everywhere it rains, It rains on the just And unjust fellows. But mostly on the just Because the unjust Have the just’s umbrellas. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite the World! ~~~~~ Please, leave a comment and let me know […]
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