Tag Archives: humanity’s insanity

Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid!

Anyone who lived through the Great Depression, World War II or was educated in the decades after the war is familiar with Roosevelt’s famous words: “…the only thing we have to fear is fear itself…” I always thought this meant we must not be afraid to act, paralyzed because we are afraid to do anything. […]

On Our Way to Oblivion

Time that I work from back to front Don’t worry if you don’t understand It is just my way of fooling my brain To discover what I don’t understand Might it be, I’ll never have answers Maybe I’ll never know the questions In a time and place like all the others Queries abound, rumors run […]

Who?

Who might I thank Who gets chastised If I should then say Everything I believe Say it right out loud Who would I injure Who might I please If I unsay or retract What I swore before In my difficult times Who may be precious Whose thorn sticks me Neither, unrecognized So will I miss […]

The Spaces Between

Shall we talk then Shall we sing Discuss Rachmaninov Analyze Proust Remembrance of future things Will you tell me No one knows What tomorrow brings As musicians fingers fly Over strings, along the keys Quickly, quickly Come listen Not only notes, words Intonation, intention Momentary suspension Of belief, disbelief Worry, care Moments in amber Aria […]

Someone Like You

Recyclers will come by Rearrange the atoms Electrons, gluons, ions To find some re-try-ons Smile if you want Won’t change facts none Happens to exploded suns Try it, if you have one Be careful though How you arrange them Confused, you rearrange some You might estrange them You’ll wonder how You ended up With something […]

What Is the Question?

We all think that we mean a lot History tells us the answer is not All of the names cited in books Future will give no second looks Burnt to cinders, Sol’s nova flash Nothing left to throw in the trash See more of my creative offerings at: Pen’s Might Philip Brent Digital Art Brent […]

The “Doctor” Drumpf Traveling Show

  Sung to the tune of Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show Cooling March, right And he peeves, clanging clown And the mass at the sound, tellin’ tweet Groove to the goad, to the blowdried beat down And the hound of that rude hostile bleat Mit a jagged vent There where ain’t is free And that […]

How Rapidly

How rapidly all our days wing away No matter how we measure time, its sway In the cosmic scale, our time is less than not We’ll be gone before we know what we’ve got See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art The Extra Mile Art, shirts and […]

Get Along With You

All of us Pawns In a world Full of Sound and Fury With overtones Undertones Key changes Abrupt screams Staccato bullets Muffled by Frail flesh Silenced forever Leaving Rivulets red Brains, gore, guts Belying any Intelligence Fellow feeling Promoting Hatred Shouted at us Until We go mad Forget The tragedy Is not Intolerance Paranoia Fear […]

We Will

We will have a blast Until our blasted last Or so we will pretend Until our sorry end See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent Digital Art Brent Harris Fine Art Vida Voices The Extra Mile Art, shirts and other gift items Scriggler TPM Niume