Tag Archives: Philip Brent
The Inside More
I approach the sentient sentence trees at a dignified pace. I am nervous, but reverent, unarmed as seems appropriate. Under these sentence trees, I am in the moment, every sense heightened. People, places, things stack together, combining to become new shoots or already massive boles, the tops lost from sight. Like birds, tastes, sharp, illusive; […]
Apposite Opposites
What is the apposite of opposite? Which can sit beside it, apropos? Commends it, no other need stay Like near and far seem a near fit Their distance means it’s a no go Apposite opposites, as night to day
The Secret Heart
Where do you think you’ll find your own secret heart The heart which speak to the secret heart of the world What pushes us away from the center, keeps us apart Which fear, hatred bigots us, around our heart curled Are we somehow kept too busy to even take one look To find that secret […]
Fullness of Time
The moon sports a Cheshire grin tonight Hiding its face behind its sly smiling light It will be revealed in the fullness of time When o’er the brow of the hill it’ll climb Many tell us, though it varies, it’s the same Playing hide and seek with the sun, a game Mirroring light from the […]
Time and Gravity
Are terrorists parents, do they have children I imagine they are, were, I think they must Still they blithely others’ children condemn Who will remember, care, when we’re dust What if people took their daughter or son Suddenly away from them, then were gone Raped, beat them, until broken to their will As they continued […]
AN IMMODEST PROPOSAL
This was originally published on February 9, 2013, written in response to a need to speak in some way to the insanity that took place all around me and specifically to the Newtown school shootings. I have chosen to repost it every year on the anniversary of this tragedy that left 27 dead, 20 of […]
#ASCOW
#ASCOW people, Any Solid Color Other than White Face violence and degradation all day and all night Each day fear, as the police state grows, gets worse Our legacy of subjugation, prejudice our daily curse Never will we change until we choose, join together Discard our past, or we perish, perhaps we’d rather The choice […]
A Fistful of Five
For those in need at home and abroad How can you believe that any of that’s healthy Because it was given me by someone wealthy Even so, you have no idea where it has been Besides, it’s not like you were given it by kin Why must you always be so nasty, so negative It’s […]
How Much
Part of me wonders why I feel lost When I sit right here in the center As I wait outside, to ponder the cost Just how much must I give to enter
Answers
Now is the time, the time is now The next questions, what and how Answer these questions to know where Though it’s always now and anywhere
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