Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
May 9, 2016
* Each day this week, I’m going to be posting writings that came to me in the middle of the night after watching a documentary on Janis Joplin. Whether it is Janis writing these words thru me, or my perception of what I watched, I have no idea. Yours to decide and I hope, enjoy.
Janis Joplin during photoshoot for Big Brother & Holding Company, Forest Knolls, CA. 1967. © Lisa Laws
I was the girl who stood in the back
I was the one who didn’t say any of that
I was the one who laughed and cried
I was the one who breathed the breath
Who stood alone amongst the rest
Never knowing my heart
I think, I guess.
~ Patrice
© PatriceClarkson – 2016
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May 6, 2016
Patrice’s Art & Poetry Blog
Don’t know where I am
Nor where I’m going to be
Can’t see down the road
Or far off cross the sea.
For I am.
I am what I see
Nothing ever changes
Here, within side of me.
Don’t know where I’m going
Never knew where I’ve been
But here now in the present
Is a charming human being.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2012
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May 4, 2016
Why we do what we do
Never knew, never understood
Didn’t have a clue.
Standing here, standing there
More or less
Standing anywhere.
Keep me close, hold me far
Never say you did or didn’t
Do that.
Why not come, why not go
All is strange, but then
Who’s to know?
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2016
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May 2, 2016
Heaven help
The one that knows.
Heaven be there
When no one knows.
Heaven see
Love and beauty in the midst of anarchy.
Heaven please
Please help me.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2016
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April 28, 2016
Flowing freely on the flow
Floating softly across the sky
Walking slowly around the bend
The funny thing is no one
Knows where I’ve been.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2016
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April 27, 2016
My hearts a mess
There is no rest
No peace, no quiet.
Racing, racing on
Racing fast
How will I ever last?
When can I see
Peace
Quiet and dignity?
When will I feel
My heart pump
A slow, soft, quiet thump?
Can’t hold on
Can’t see
How I got here, how to leave.
All I see is
My hearts a mess
There is no rest, that’s all, all I see.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2016
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April 26, 2016
You are full of majesty
Fulfilling all your destiny
Taking nothing for granted
Softly treading
On this world’s planet
A sweet smile across your face
Nothing of you is not
Full of graceful grace
Majesty is seen
Even in your careful pace.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2016
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April 25, 2016
Our hearts grow old with sadness
You are lost to us in life
Gone to glory in the sky
While your memory lives
Still here in our lives.
May your journey be a lustre
A brilliance in the sky
May your star shine forever
illuminating all those
Who now cry.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2016
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April 22, 2016
Patrice’s Art & Poetry Blog
Kado feeling blue
Feels the pain in his mouth
A tooth or two cracked off
Hurting, drooling too
Kado oh so blue.
Kado feeling blue
Its hard to be
A big guy in pain
And not show it too
Kado oh so blue.
Kado feeling blue
No supper, no dinner
Can’t eat so
Hungry now too
Kado oh so blue.
Kado feeling blue
Doctor pulled that damn tooth
Second one too
Hole size of a quarter
Where once a tooth
Used to chew
Oh Kado feeling blue.
Kado not so blue
Resting peacefully
Had some dinner too!
Life is good
Kado saw the tooth fairy
Kado not so blue.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2012
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