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Welcome to paperstorm.ca - The Official Website of Phillip L. Harrison. I hope you find it informative and insightful, as you look into the inner workings of a life well lived. A life that is still living a life well lived. I have been blessed with many great people in my world. They have and are contributing daily to the successes that I am enjoying as a writer. I started life out with some difficulties, and am only now being able to sort through my old notes to salvage the gems of poetry from those experiences. The experiences both good and not so good, have made me who I am, determined, perseverant, loving and above all poetic. Everything happens for a reason, every moment and every action, has its beginning tied to an outcome. Our thoughts and feelings are linked to those we are closest too, and theirs to ours. If we can step back and simply watch our lives moving for a few minutes, we would see the general path in which we wish to travel. I am thankful to be able to have the perspective I have, to also be able to see some of the paths others may wish to travel. We are after all merely pilgrims on a great journey. Though we don't often feel how important others may be to us in our lives, the fact that they are in our lives speaks volumes about who we are and how we got to where we are, and where we are going. I consider myself fortunate to have been able to keep an innocent quality from my youth. It is way too easy for us, as adults to suspect everything and everyone around us. To assume others are more than they appear, detracts from the human condition, and most of my really favorite topics involve working with the life stories of others. If I put "my own spin" on their lives, it becomes something other than the thing it was meant to become. People fascinate me, I am constantly watching others as their lives unfold some small story before me, and I often feel privileged to have witnessed it. I feel its important as writers to maintain a childlike quality of ourselves so that we can appreciate each story for its own merit. I enjoy being able to view life through the eyes I have, to see each day as a new opportunity to explore and uncover how "I feel about things". It is a 'worthy journey' if you can draw a beautiful map for those who may follow in your foot steps, but it is still their journey. It is my hope that you will step with me for a while onto my path and enjoy the things I have experienced through my writing. Grab a coffee and join me in my thoughts. Writing poetry is not a skill reserved for professionals or for only highly educated people. Anyone and everyone should write and read poetry. Poetry offers a unique way of both asking and answering questions that pertain to the conditions and the betterment of the human heart. I will maintain that anyone after having read or in writing a substantial amount of literary prose, will soon discover that their writing of prose and rhyme will become exceptionally better with every word. There is no perfect time to start, just start now. Many favored themes that are popular today are of course, love poems, and poetry about life. Others who are starting out may find that they have a propensity towards writing and reading dark poetry, or perhaps inspirational poems; both of these are categories of poetry that I enjoy ! I like to find and write about the depths of the human spirit, of things such as the dark night of the soul, or the unfortunate and often tragic circumstances that trigger the human heart into a reaction and a response. So often when we encounter such tragedy or unhappiness in our lives, we want to relate with others in our community, and poetry is one of the best forms for this community of like thinkers to share, as a language. It is those thin threads of happiness and joy that we can find in dark times, that we will occasionally require in our lives, and being able to share and express your thoughts with this medium is very powerful for healing properly. In more recent years there has been a reemergence of poetry for children. |
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