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When The Time Is Right

October 21, 2013

Carlos ~ painting by Patrice

When the time is right
And you are ready
You’ll succeed beyond your wildest dreams.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Deep In A Wretched Chasm Of Despair

October 18, 2013

Old House Window ~ photo by Patrice

 

Deep in a wretched chasm of despair
Struggling, struggling to get out
Out of there
Fallen down a well of no repair
Intimidating, dark down there.

Feel the walls
Feel their strength
They’ll help you climb back up
Into a life of freedom
Happiness, no despair.

Don’t dwell way down
Way down there
In that chasm, that well
Filled with hell
Way down there.

Bring yourself up, out
Feel the rays spreading out
Warming, bringing joy
Happiness all about
No pain.

No heartache there about
As we bask in the warmth
Of the sun, knowing
We’ll never fall back down
into that dark chasm
We’ll never, ever fall
ever at all.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Pachyderms Heading South

October 17, 2013

Elephants at the Toronto Zoo ~ photo by Patrice

Elephants at the Toronto Zoo in 1986 ~ photo by Patrice

Pachyderms heading south
Heading out
In a truck equipped
No doubt
With everything needed
To trek down south.

Bon Voyage!
Heading out
Not having to walk
Way down south to
A sanctuary
Heaven on earth I have
No doubt.

Too cold here
Should wear mittens
On your snout
Heading south
Yes, Pachyderms
Are heading out.
~ Patrice

 

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Crucial

October 16, 2013

Pink Rose ~ photo by Patrice

Crucial.

It is crucial that I love you and my life
Crucial will suffice.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Meticulous Responsibility

October 15, 2013

Aruba clock tower ~ photo by Patrice

Meticulous responsibility
Guiding me thru the caverns of doom.
See the light, follow its rays
To the height of all magnitude.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Regrets, None

October 11, 2013

Snowy Corn Fields ~ photograph by Patrice

Regrets, none
That I get.

Morose, you know
You bet.

Melancholy, hoping
Hoping for the best.

Settle, settle not
Go get.

Don’t, don’t forget
It’s your day.

Make it, make it
With no regrets.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Travel Far, Travel Away

October 10, 2013

Blue Violets ~ photo by Patrice

Travel far, travel away
Travel from all that’s desperate
Not good for you today.

Travel up, travel down
Make your pleasure
Be all around
Those you love so profound.

Enrich this your life
And be it found on
Travelling up or far away
Is your choice
On this and everyday.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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When You See Myself

October 9, 2013

Happy Convict ~ illustration by Patrice

 

 

 

 

 

When you see myself
You see someone else
Not the one I want to be
But the one I let you see.

Therefore
I will try to appear to be
The person who’s good for you
And most of all the best of me.
~ Patrice

 

 

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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My Success

October 8, 2013

My success does not depend on the quality of others. ~ Patrice

Bucking Horse ~ illustration by Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013

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Languid Tranquility Manifesting

October 7, 2013

River Beauty ~ Photo by Patrice

Languid tranquility manifesting
Here inside of me
Never know where it’s going
Just happy it’s lifting me.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2013