Tag Archives: #WRITERS

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

Love Is All

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! World Famous Floating Head Illusion ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Ancient before time Impenetrable void waited Crawled from its atomic shell Instantaneous illumination flared Newborn This moment A swirling figure Moves, is every moment Innocently wise Hopeful, in constant conflict Cooperation in every interchange Full of wonder, every and […]

Unseen

Unseen is the second of three exploring the same feeling People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Mountain Kingdom ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ I stand high upon the mountaintop. My dark, uncertain path obscured. Until a sharp, chill wind rises, cuts, shreds my fog-shrouded mind, self; reveals bright stars, the Milky Way. It limns my […]