Posts Tagged ‘Look Back Friday’

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Memories

June 18, 2021

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Family ~ unknown photographer

Memories
Memories come flooding back
Some with remorse
Some with a laugh track.

I don’t know if anyone else
Remembers it like that
But I remember
Memories
Just like that.
~ Patrice

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Sleepy Tired

June 11, 2021

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Old House ~ Photo by Patrice

Sleepy tired
Worry wakes me in the night
Toss turn
Feeling no sleep
As anguish plays on my sleepless stage
In a darkness with no saving light.

Maybe in the morning
All will be clear
A path opening up, a way from here to there
But tonight greeted with only so many questions
Keeping me sleepy tired
In a dim, dark hopeless night.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2017

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Write

June 4, 2021

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Write
What you need to.

Write
What you feel too
Doesn’t matter if it
Never sees daylight
Only known on pages
Of a book closed tight.

Write
Let it out
Let it be recorded on
The slate that makes you be
What you’ve become
You see.
~ Patrice

Pen Drawing ~ Illustration by Patrice

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Yesterday

May 28, 2021

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Teck, in Remembrance

When I think
Of all the things
That have disappeared
Gone away
Happened yesterday
My heart joins forces
With my soul
To help me understand
Why it all had to go away

Yesterday.
~ Patrice  

© Patrice Clarkson – 2017

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Thee

May 21, 2021

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Shepherd and Bouvier playing ~ Illustration by Patrice

Delicately
I embrace thee

Softly
I caress thee

While with my whole heart

I unconditionally
Love thee.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2017

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Cold And Freezing Rain

May 14, 2021

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Deep Freeze ~ Photo by Patrice

Cold and freezing rain
Falls from the sky
Falls
Taking no blame.

Only pours it’s heart out
Letting drops fall
Again and again
In cold, freezing rain.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2017

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Writing Comes Easy

May 7, 2021

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Chickens and Eggs ~ Illustration by Patrice for the Educational Publisher, Ginn and Company

Writing comes easy
It’s the meaning that is hard.
~ Patrice

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We Keep Secrets

April 30, 2021

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Jackal ~ Illustration by Patrice for Holt, Rinehart and Winston's reader, 'Flights Near And Far'

We keep secrets
We hold them tight
Never exposed
To see the morning light.

We keep secrets
Silent, secretive
They speak not a word
Sometimes to the grave
They’re carried, never heard.

We keep secrets
Untold secrets
We grasp them tight
Feeling the burden
The weight not light.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2017

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Butterfly Flutters

April 23, 2021

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Butterfly and Flowers ~ Photo by Patrice

Butterfly flutters
Breathing in sunlight
Going from left
To right
Landing on a flower
That feeds just right.

Beauty encompasses
Wings in flight
Staying still
Only a second
To take a taste
Of the drink of life.
~ Patrice

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See The Rings

April 16, 2021

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Sunlight in the wood ~ Photo by Patrice

See the rings
The rings of life
See them circle
Bringing
Embracing life
Different colours
Different lines
Going round
Since
The beginning of time.
~ Patrice  

© Patrice Clarkson – 2017

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