I love the ticking of the tock
No hesitation
No what not
Tick,
Tock
Tick,
Tock
All the time
Making hours from seconds
One at a time
Tick,
Tock
Tick,
Tock
I love the ticking
I love the tock
Keeping time, no matter what
Tick,
Tock
Tick,
Tock
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
Bring your heart to the fight
Let it show strength isn’t all that wins
Wins the fight.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson -2015
Wonder why is the question I need to know
Now, before I die please show
See the happiness, see the sadness
Wonder, wonder why?
Beauty surrounds, beauty and glory
Making my life a beautiful story
Questions still there, still asking
Wondering, wondering why?
That seems to be the way
That seems to be the making of a life
But can’t help wondering, can’t help saying
I wonder, wonder why?
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
Months, maybe a year later I can’t recall, a friend was going thru a difficult time. She was lost, spiralling. I felt she needed something to hang onto, get herself steady, stabilized. See her way out of her troubles.
One morning it came to me… Why not post my affirmations, my poetry on my blog, accompanied by my art and photos? This could be a place where my friend could come daily. Maybe to be inspired to find solutions to her troubles, know she wasn’t alone.
So, that’s how my blog began and why I came to be here.
It is my hope my words, my art and photos will bring pleasure, enjoyment and inspiration to your life.
Namaste
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
At the end of the workshop, to say thanks to my fellow journeyers, I made up postcards with a painting and an affirmation of mine on each.
Everyone in the group got their own unique card. One of the facilitators called to say thanks and said too, ‘You should do something with your poetry’.
Poetry?
I write poetry?
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
Sometime around then along with 4 or 5 other ladies, I attended a workshop called, The Artist’s Way. We were using Julia Cameron’s book by the same name.
My purpose in going was to unlock the block I was and had been dealing with for years. To start painting again, not just hide, going in circles, accomplishing nothing. Spiralling into self-hate and depression.
To digress a little…
When I was a whole lot younger, I used to do what I called ‘Automatic Writing’. That meant I’d just start writing down whatever words I saw in my head. Not trying to figure out why I needed to write them down or where the thoughts came from. Just write.
My explanation then and now was that the words were coming from somewhere, someone who wanted, needed a voice. I became their channel.
The Artist Way workshop brought all this back and some. Not only showing me how to love myself but to write daily, expressing my feelings in multiple pages and at the end, Affirmations.
Life was good.
~ to be continued
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
I’m an artist. Have been all my life. Loving the drawing, painting of nature and feeling a connection to animal life.
People, not so much. People have issues. I have issues.
And that brings me to why I’m here.
At the urging of an acquaintance, I opened my blog. She was my first ‘Follower’ — just to encourage me to get out of my comfort zone and feel I was writing to someone, not just out to empty space. I thank her so much for her support then.
I believed a blog was a good place to show my art, my photos. Drive new customers to my website. But what made my blog any different from any other artist’s blog? What would make it unique? Me?
That was where I was stagnated. For months it sat there. Not a new post, not a new word.
– to be continued…
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
My writings write
My thoughts think
My eyes see almost everything.
My heart knows to let it be
To live within the ecstasy
Never knowing what comes next
Planning only to be the best.
My writings write
My thoughts think
My eyes see almost everything.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2015
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