When I hear your heart
Go
Tic toc, tic toc
I’ll send you love
I’ll forget you not.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019

When I hear your heart
Go
Tic toc, tic toc
I’ll send you love
I’ll forget you not.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019


Holding close and very tight
A life of beauty
Now
And throughout the night
Let no one come between
Let no one see anger, sarcasm
No, none of that
No
Nothing
May we laugh in joy, in ecstasy
May we live together
In
Total harmony
May life be
Just the best
So
We wouldn’t want
Anymore or anything.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023

The world is full of hate
Will it ever
Ever
Dissipate?
It festers, boils, multiplies
Spreading over
All sweet innocence
Kindness
Is
Denied
My heart cries
Weeps for the world
So full of anger
Steeped
In
Hate.
Please take it
Make it be
Not
Of this world
Not for us, for you, nor me.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023

Sadness streams down my face
Dreams
Remembered of another place
Trying to correct wrongs done
In that other time, that other place
No help
Can be strong enough
No help to carry me away
From that sad, sad place
Today.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019

Coffee is the one
I love
The one I need
Nearby me
In the morning
He wakes, lets me see
The beauty in the world
It’s majesty.
Then at night he’s there
Beside of me
Breathing quietly, snoring
Oh so gently.
No bad dreams
Disrupt my sleep
For
He’s at guard, he protects me.
My sweet coffee
Is
The one I love
The one I need
And I will
For all of eternity.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson. – 2023
I have been working on the art for my 2024 Art & Affirmation Calendar.
Coffee is the 4th in the series of paintings.
I knew Coffee and his folks and it has been very personal for me working on this painting.
Coffee passed away last year and is solely missed by all his family.
The above poem was written for them.
Watch me create at Patrice’s 2024 Art & Affirmation Calendar


I have found
The world is round
What is done comes back
Comes back around
So don’t make it bad
Don’t make anyone sad
Cause back
It comes back around.
Make it happy
Carefree, filled with joy
Then when it comes back
Comes back around
Your soul will know
Truly
The world is round.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2019