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Who Else Is Willing?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth ~~~~~ What did I bring with me? Though I recall none of it. What’s the point of that? Does it leak out of me when I’m overworked, underpaid, distracted, expected to do it all? Who else is willing to take on this task? ~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is […]
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 […]
Poets May
~~~~~ Poets may have no shame, yet it may beset their mind. Not many can expect fame. A few, plus some by dying. No shame will tell the truth: Cannot control their words, in their age or in their youth. Canary in a mine, other birds. Whether they whisper, shout Likely lost, left upon a […]
A Fearless Boy
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Long, Long Ago ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ I believe in magic despite what you or I may call it. I admit there are times I forget I’m still a child. No matter my age, the inability, lack of agility my body uses to hide me from me.. I […]
But We Must Reach
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Is it nature or is it art? Nature is art on its own. Sometimes we create something exceptional using nature and have no reason we must atone. Yet, other times we take life with complete and utter disregard and we wonder why life’s hard. I think we need […]
Blood and Smoke
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Deep amber moon appeared a blood moon as I sat silently in my car and studied it. Yet, I knew it but smoke from a fiery tune; western blazes fire crews struggle to edit. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment Unite […]
When I Lie
~~~~~ She said one more trip around the block.I hoped she would be safe going around.Not me, sucking wind, I could not walk.Hope she stays safe, unsure I’d rebound. Do not think anything will happen, butreminded today of our Kenyan carjack.Wrong place at the wrong time is whatand I wondered if we would come […]
More Than
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Hanging Out 20-21 ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ How will we ever know what is rightDespite what all hierophants preach?How’ll we keep our fiery hope alight?Our answer’s unknown, but we reach. If a word, god, didn’t exist, now, everI cannot imagine the need to coin one.I been proven wrong, […]
Air and Magic
Taken from books I have recently read, am reading or intend to read in the future. Like a Cento, but not. People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I have run with fleet childrenwhere the forest meets the stars.I have pursued silence playingsolitaire out in the deserts far.Aristotle and Dante helped me learn the secrets […]
Don’t Jump
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Cats on a Ledge ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Please, don’t jump into the conversation if you haven’t thought it through. Don’t dump your baggage, free or bought at the drop of a word on any occasion. And please, don’t jump. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity […]
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