Tag Archives: understanding
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 […]
Screams. Wake Up!
~~~~~ Slowly and surely, softly and silently the unexpected creeps in. Shhhhh. Until it whacks us upside the head, screams, “Wake Up,!” until we do. (to be cont.) ~~~~~ 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’ve Always Been
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What in your life is unforgotten? What in your life is never remembered? I always remember when we met although we settled on a date. How alone I felt sitting on a brick wall. No money and no friends, until you said hello. Your beauty, your smile and […]
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, […]
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 […]
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! […]
In Their Season
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The fog dampens the sound and the ground Shortens our view while hiding the familiar. Boats, rocks, headlands vanish and reappear Where they’re expected but also unexpected. Waves murmur and mumble along the shore. We stand up from a bench, brief rest behind. Walking, to return to where […]
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