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you'll have to excuse me if i'm not at my best....
i've been working all week now i need a pint and a rest.

"Life is much too important to be taken seriously"
~Oscar Wilde~


and now for something completely different
waltzing in the minefields. a new mime ballet
only have mercy... for a mime is a terrible thing to waste
righto mel brooks meets monty python
ohhh the awesome power of the swartz
i never wanted to be a jedi... i always wanted to be a lumberjack


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thus

i am phil

here i stand and wish only my poems to reveal me for now
poetry is one eye and my art photography is the other eye to my soul
this attempt to turn to a clean slate with a new year sounds like fun
as art attempts to arrest change to be studied, life's beautiful in growth

i've noticed that the serious poets leave poems to speak for them
though humbly i can't claim that i am a poet or serious lol
from the previous year i link to past thoughts of mine:
allpoetry.com/Story/1042257

thankyou for any comments on poems that you might enjoy of mine
i shall do my best to return them as i'm able to find time
feel free to post links to your favourite poems as we learn from each other



so as they might put on my tombstone epitaph:

peace go with me as i find new adventure to depart
and i promise i'll try not leave a lingering fart




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skip the chase and put up links to humbly draw your attention to what I consider some of my best work.
Feel free to wander through any or all of it...
Rarely written a poem that I didn't like
there's more of my thinking below the links so read on if you so wish to

you know that i'd love to read your best so please comment a link to yours!

Some of these just stand out for whatever reason in my mind.
Please enjoy and check out my contest poems too, no winners (*cough*rigged*cough*) but they're spiffy stuff

monkey with a typewriter (tightest freestyle rhyming)

parallels to daycare
a mirror (my personal fav of my PJ style)
shoelace conversations
fling (bit more serious about relationships gone wrong)
creative lava

lunar rock dreaming (kids' poem)
seeking comfort utterly (another deeper poem
tea tantalizing chat
caught on the flip side
cowards (warning it's about rape and club scene
chocolate milk goodness
why children wear a poppy
dark energy of the serpent crusade (an epic sword dual)
unworthy (spiritual one)
reflections of love fatale
a squire's lessons (tehehe, ok it's stoic)


if it seems like i wrote a bunch of children's poems (at least a 1/6th) it's from hanging out in a daycare and lil'uns are my inspiration


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and then a couple of my longer pieces that i thought pretty much describe
where i'm trying to go with my writing and photojournalism so i'd hugely appreciate any comments
i had to review a couple of author readings for an english lit course
go see an author speak sometime!!! it's awesome and inspiring
check it out at your local library or bookstore for when some are coming

Pie Boy Make Me some Pie
Two Norsemen and a Maiden
Spirits of Canadian Hockey"
Ten to Life (far goofier than writing exercise title sounds)
Gothy Valentine's Presents (yep twisted tongue-in-cheek fun)
Thumbing a Ride to Eccentric Poetry
Bus Stations, Dream-catchers and Elders: Learning to Catch Stories
Riveting Canadian Storytelling


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~enjoy the randomness of emotion caught in poetry moving in slow motion~
something i figured out and started writing randomly in public spaces

~ A photograph is not theft; it is merely a mirror to the human soul ~
a thought on the aboriginal belief that cameras steal the body's spirit
as well statement and question on copyrights and b.s. intellectual property


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"Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace."
~Oscar Wilde~


oscar wilde makes perfect sense to me as you totally have to edit somewhere I charged myself with the quest to edit over 100 poems that I've written in the last ten months alone and haven't typed up yet. Plus 1000's of photos that I take every month.... uggghh, editing nightmare.... lol
get a bottle of wine or two and a evening or two ... website needs a make-over too. such is 20/20 hindsight


"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."
~Sir William Osler~



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to my credit while modestly boasting, but i've had half a dozen poems published
as my own poetry corner column while volunteering for the Camosun College Nexus newspaper.
training to be a photojournalist and have had 16 covershots over the last two years of 16 x's 3 volumes.
works out to one out of every three covers over three years so i'm dam proud of that.

after i moved to calgary, started at a tech school for journalism
kinda have to admit i've lost track of how many photos i've pulbished
an article in the SAIT Emery Weal every few issues and a regular concert photo column

my photography is very much influenced by my writing as it lets me work out an topic to photograph.
i usually shoot a couple of subjects working in partnership with a writer on a particular feature...
so i've had a hella lot more experience publishing photos.
maybe the experience will help me out when publishing words. i'll keep my fingers crossed.



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"When you shoot people in colour, you photograph their clothes.
When you shoot people in black and white, you photograph their souls.
Real photographers shoot black and white, eat sushi and drink scotch."
~Ted Grant~

the man is a retired photojournalist and i did a research essay on him

here's the link: Cultural Stories Taught by Photojournalistic Art

wow... i so want to do that for the rest of my life.
i totally agree about the scotch and the black and white film has the ability
to blow people out of the water.

it's my favourite medium and i'll keep shooting it
as long as they keep making chemicals and film so i can keep my darkroom going. sadly dust covered now


I love the medium of photography, for with its unique realism it gives
me the power to go beyond conventional ways of seeing and
understanding and say, "This is real, too."
~Wynn Bullock~



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A short bio Q&A for my publicists to use for future interviews.
i'm joking... the questions from a interview in the Monday Magazine.
an awesome indy magazine in Victoria BC. Lookit up in google...
some down to earth editorials and brutal honest articles on social issues.


Who would play you in the real life TV adaption?
Matt Damon does quiet characters.

What am you driving now and/or what's your dream car?
A bloody Hummer because I don't trust drivers
after riding my sweet ten speed road bike for the last six years.
I'll save a rainforest while I'm pedalling too.

When you were a kid, what was your favourite piece of playground equipment?
Call me a dreamer, but trees in my parents yard and when camping.
They were a way I could see forever from my fort in the forest far away from reality.

What am I most sorry for not doing in life?
I regret nothing, but I wish I had more guts to kiss the girls I liked.
Or stand up for my faith. Walking calmly way from rare junior high fights I didn't regret,
but I shoulda hid the grin. Other then that... noworries.


When striving for truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
~Einstein



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here's a thought on a writing style...

feuilleton (FOI-i-ton) noun

1. The part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature,
criticism, and the like; also something printed in this section.

2. A novel published in installments.

3. A short literary piece

sounds good to me i've been looking for different ways of writing... this will do nicely... cheers


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"It has devolved upon me to -- not preach, as it were -- but to write about morals, about hope, about desolation, about pain and ecstasy and joy and triumph in the human spirit. So it seems to me, that is my calling. And I write about it for all of us, because I know that human beings are more alike than we are unalike."

maya angalou is an amazing inspiration of a poet and civil rights historian after working with dr martin luther king and malcomn X:

www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/ang0int-1
"The substance is the issue which most moves you. You should be able to change style the same way you change your jackets... when you have the substance, you decide what style shall I deliver -- in which style shall I deliver this?"



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just a thought about the way religion is headed right now

"The task of the church is to wake up, sing up, preach up, pray up, stay up, pay up, never give up, let up, back up, or shut up, until the cause of Christ in this world is built up," - John Erb


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parting thought here.... art & poetry are freedom of speech
so the writing's on the wall if you're brave enough to read
grab some chalk or sharpie pens and the world is yours to reach
the most profound changes of peaceful rebels are exactly what we need



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if you want to email me or chat more...

it's philstrom25@gmail(dot)com for mail
msn me at brodie25@hotmail(dot)com

thanks for stopping by & peace out


read your classics you guy you!
http://www.artofeurope.com/shakespeare/