Archive for the ‘Poetry’ Category

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Wondering What

January 5, 2023
Wondering What ~ Photo by Patrice

Sitting here wondering 
What has begun
What will take place
What has run to it’s end
What has not.

These are things I think about
I take to my heart
For it must live through every single thing
Every single bit and not skip a beat
No, it must not. 
~ Patrice 

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2023

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Going Forward, Not Looking Back

January 3, 2023
Going Forward, Not Looking Back - Photo by Patrice

Going forward, not looking back 
Leaving badness in the past

Let no one be carried
On a bed of sadness

But

Rejoice, go forward 
Pursuing happiness. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2023

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When I Heard You Calling Me

December 23, 2022

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Mom and Dad

When I heard you
Calling me
My heart stopped
It skipped a beat.

Tell me why
I can be alone
Lost without you
Near me.

You make me whole
A life to love
With arms wrapped
Around my soul.

Your heart, my heart
Filled with love
Together always
In everlasting love.
~ Patrice

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Figure It Out

December 21, 2022
Figure It Out ~ Photo by Patrice

Let me figure it out

Thoughts run through my mind
trying to see the answer to make everything
I want to happen
come about. 

Think seriously, think again
see the path, the way
construct how I’m going to get there
the why, where 
and
how it’s going to come about 

Let me sit down quietly
take a deep, soft breath in 
think

figure it out. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022

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Beauty In Nature

December 20, 2022

We come to see
The beauty in nature
Here, for all
To see.  

Just take a breath
Look around
See
All the magnificence
That nature has given
To you, to me
~ Patrice

 

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Beauty In Nature ~ Photo by Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022

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Snow Flies

December 16, 2022

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Snow Storm ~ Photo by Patrice

Snow flies
And we answer
Why? Why?

Blizzards blow fierce white
Changing darkness
Into a brilliant seeing night.

Cold with icicles
Dripping down
Covering a frigid, frozen ground.

Rivers run underneath
A covering of ice and snow
Sometimes more than a foot deep.

We live thru this
We
We do exist.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2018

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Changes

December 15, 2022

Changes ~ Photo by Patrice

Changes come
Changes go 
Changing everything we think 
We know 

Tomorrow will be different 
Tomorrow another day 
Changing in weather, beliefs 
So many ways 

Still here we are 
In the midst of those changes 
Changing our thoughts 
Changing 
Changing this day. 
~ Patrice  

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022

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Ghosts Of Devils Pass

December 14, 2022

Ghosts Of Devils Pass ~ Photo by Patrice

Ghosts of devils past
Reign
Their leering faces laugh
Shrieking insane
It goes on and on
It seems to last
And
Last and last.

Those devils are just ghosts
Still
They haunt my head, my heart 
They make me relive thoughts
I’d rather not
Those ghosts
Those devils of the past. 
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022

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Soldiers Soldier

December 13, 2022

Soldiers soldier ~ Illustration by Patrice

Soldiers soldier 
lovers love 
Peace, tranquillity
come to those that soldier on
with love 

Make me not
one
that believes
not in love 

Make me a soldier
in that army conquering
hatred, prejudice
giving only 
unconditional love. 
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022

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Heaven Help Me

December 12, 2022

Heaven Help Me ~ Photo by Patrice

Heaven help me 
Heaven
Let me see 
The things I need to do
To make my life
A glorious thing of exquisite beauty
Now
And throughout
Eternity.
~ Patrice

@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022