Stay for the day
Don’t wander, falter in anyway
Sacrifice your heartache
Throw out those that naysay
Stay in the hour
In the moment
Every second, everyday
For all time
Today.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category
Stay For The Day
September 23, 2015
Hummingbird
September 22, 2015
Hummingbird safe on your journey be
Many pleasures I’ve had watching ye
Time has come and I must let it be
Trust your flight south is a safe journey
In the cool fall light you make yourself ready
Ready for that long flight
Flower to flower do you fly
Sharing pollen, drinking til dry
Maybe next summer I’ll see you again
Humming beneath flowering stems
Drinking sweet nectar alongside some bees
Enjoying the warmth and raising a family
Right now though, all I see is a hummingbird
Getting ready for that phenomenal journey
Wishing you safe, wishing you well
Make it there and please, come back as well.
~ Patrice
Note: As I finished writing this poem and rereading it out loud out on our deck, a hummingbird came up so close i could feel the air movement from her wings on the side of my head. She hovered a few seconds then flew away. I have not seen a hummingbird since. Amazing. I like to think she said goodbye too.
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
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Terry Fox
September 21, 2015
When I think of Terry Fox
I think a lot
Of the good he did
He did a lot.
Not thinking of himself
He made it happen
Help for others
He helped a lot.
He ran
Terry Fox ran
He ran for those
Who could not.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
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My Heart Aches
September 18, 2015
My heart aches
For the girl I use to be
Finding it hard accepting
This woman I am to be.
I was innocent then
Accepting and carefree.
What happened
To that girl?
Where could she be?
Life took a toll
Leaving her as you see.
Must accept this woman
Must be pleased
And certainly see
a beautiful person too
Just not as carefree.
Happy yes, more so now
Than ever could be.
So love this woman
Because she is me.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2011
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Whatever Happens
September 17, 2015
Whatever happens maybe extreme
It doesn’t mean
I have to accept it or labour beneath it’s screams
Of hurt, anger and unnecessary demeans.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
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Calm Has Come
September 16, 2015
Calm has come
Stopped the siege
No one knows
Nor cares why.
Bow my head
Hear it now
Blending
Softness into song.
To the world
Nothing’s changed
Yet I know nothing
Will be the same.
~Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
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Definitely
September 15, 2015Definitely
Going to save the day
Definitely
Going to remember it well
Definitely
Going to savour every piece of it
Definitely
Going to live it
And
Definitely
Going to harbour
Its wondrous thoughts as well.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
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Blossoms
September 14, 2015
Blossoms bloom
And do their thing
Bringing sweetness, beauty, to everything.
Mock pretend blossoms don’t do
Glowing beauty is all you see
All you do.
Blossoms grow
From plants in need
Of rebirthing self and growing seed.
Blossoms give their life for love
Love of kind and those they serve
But never seen nor ever heard.
Blossoms live
They bloom, they die
Giving all they had to give.
Be a blossom, really live.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
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A Dark Day
September 11, 2015
~ AFP PHOTO/Alexandre Fuchs
A dark day, a quiet day
Busy hoping the bad will go away
But still anger fills the land
Don’t understand, don’t understand.
Silent caution undertakes
To make the world a safer place
No blaming you, no blaming me
Just live in wonder, in harmony.
Darkest night is all we fear
Not one another, no foe, no peer
We walk in morning not with dread
Only thoughts of love instead.
~ Patrice
Patrice Clarkson – 2015
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I Know
September 10, 2015
Had a thought
Of someone
Not anyone I know.
Heard songs singing
With words
I didn’t know.
Seen ones I know exist
But for me I know
I do not know.
All very strange for me
Yet comforting to know
They did and do exist.
Alongside me and those
I definitely
Do now know.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
