Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category

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Be The Artist That You Are

April 27, 2018

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Carlos ~ Watercolour painting by PatriceBe the artist that you are
See your way each and everyday
Be that one, the one you see
And want to be.

Your best
The artist that you are
The one you need be.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2014

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You Didn’t See

April 26, 2018

Monkey Head Rock in Costa Rica ~ Photo by Patrice

You didn’t see the things
I saw
Nor did you feel the feelings
That I felt.

Still in my mind
I know
You know what I saw
What I felt.

And you alone will bring me
To the place
A place
I’ve always sought.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2018

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Pathetic And Sad

April 23, 2018

Old House Window ~ Photo by Patrice

 

 

 

 

Pathetic and sad
He goes forth
The essence of bad.

No one curtails
No one dare tell
The evil one
He is going to wither
In hell.

He doesn’t know
It doesn’t have to be so
He could be happy
And glad.

All that’s required
Is to be open, generous
Considerate and mostly
Not angry, bitter
Or sad.
~ Patrice

 

 

 

© Patrice Clarkson – 2018

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Cherish The One

April 20, 2018

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Cherish the one who gives you joy
Cuddle the one who sinks beneath a burdened load
Find the one whose lost the road
Be yourself where’re you go.
~ Patrice

Pink Spring Blossoms ~ photo by Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2014

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Trying To Make

April 19, 2018

Hollyhock and Bumblebee ~ Photo by Patrice

Trying to make
All my work complete

Make things tidy
Tidy and neat

Exhaustive work
Mental trying times

When and where
Did I get so much

So much to do
In so little time?
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2018

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Every Morning

April 18, 2018

Whales Tail Beach in Costa Rica ~ Photo by Patrice

Every morning I open my book
Writing
The words given to me.

Every morning I think about living
Life
Free with courtesy.

Every morning I see
A different morning
One
I make it to be.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2018

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Understand, Don’t Understand

April 16, 2018

Chickens and Eggs ~ Illustration by Patrice for the Educational Publisher, Ginn and Company

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understand, don’t understand
How the world turns round
Can’t conceive, see the concept
Of what will come to be.

All fits together, all is a mess
Nothing left undone
All’s well and is what
Is the outcome.
~ Patrice

 

 

 

 

 

© Patrice Clarkson – 2018

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For Absolutely No Reason

April 13, 2018

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Horse and Cowboy ~ illustration by Patrice

For absolutely no reason
I’m sent to the past
Made to remember things
I’d rather pass.

For no reason
They breathe life again
Making me remember
All over again and again.

The outcome is no different
The end is the same
For absolutely no reason
I remember again.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2014

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I Don’t Know, Neither Do You

April 12, 2018

I don’t know, neither do you
Where will we go when
We’re through.

I don’t know, neither do you
But we do know where
We’ve been and been through.
~ Patrice

Red Geraniums ~ Photo by Patrice 

© Patrice Clarkson – 2018

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I’m Going To Be

April 11, 2018

Pen & Ink Illustration of Yehudi Menuhin by Patrice

I’m going to be here
And over there.

I’m going to be full of brilliance
Nothing more.

I’m going to be forever
Evermore.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2018