Philip Brent Harris

Philip Brent Harris has written a dozen original screenplays and two adaptations solo and four with Stanford Professor, Jasmina Bojic. For over a decade, he served as a juror for both the San Francisco Film Festival and the United Nations Association Film Festival. The latter was founded by Professor Bojic, who also serves as the Executive Director. Harris was honored as the final poem in the print anthology: Humans in the Wild: Reactions to a Gun Loving Country, Mythic Picnic.

He has two poems online with PoetryXHunger, and two with Silent Spark Press, one online and one in Amazing Poetry 4.

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► Philip Brent Harris's microchap & poem selections are available below. Download the single-page PDF by clicking the title.

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Pieces and Parts

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Philip Brent Harris BioCVR Pieces and Parts 2023

Cover art: 'Sacred'
By Philip Brent Harris

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What I Said

Mired in my mind maze,
lonely and lost,
as I wander around
inside my own head.
Wise words I uttered,
at too high a cost,
because, I cannot
remember what I said.

Inner Monologue

How do I learn to act
rather than react?
Am I captive to my
animal self; is that fact?
Meditation, I hear, will
quiet the voice in my head.
I also hear that’s impossible;
what was that I said?

Never About

It was never about what I lost,
nor about what I might gain.
It was my life’s foolish cost.
All my wishes wished in vain.

No One

All the steps of daily life
are now no more than ever.
More slowly I move, my strife.
I know, no one lives forever.

I’m OK

I’m OK with being a cliché,
old enough now not to care.
Here many a year and a day,
I sometimes do what I dare.

Pieces and Parts

I will play one last piece,
each time, before I depart.
Until I take the stage anew.
I will sit a while in peace,
and choose my new part.
I’ve been me. Can I be you?

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