When I hear
The sound of your voice
Life becomes so dear
Clouds part, rains stop
And wrens fly near.
No one speaks a word
No one need say
The feelings felt
To convey how
The world is ours
And
We have all the love
We need today.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
Another month starts today
Another path lies
Focused in some way
On the dream manifesting itself
In all waking, living things.
Gently, quietly step upon the step
That brings all you want, all you need
To the self that sings
Nature’s beauty
Daring, just to dream.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2016
When it happened
Where it came to pass
Now
I know it’s not to last.
In the beginning
At the start, I saw heaven
A place
To rest my heart.
To sleep in restful peace
Bliss being part
Of all I began
I had to start.
All that came to happen
Beginning at the end
Ending
At the start.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
You know why I cry
You know, you know
Life would be easy
Life would be fine
If only I’d forget
Those memories that bind.
For no crying will change
What has happened
Nor make it
Not come to past.
If I lived in the present
Not thinking of the past
Never crying for
What happens in the future.
Let it come
Let it past
Now is my time
Now I must make it last.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
The sun rises
Shines
All across the land
The ground wakes
Sighing a gentle sigh
All across the land.
Birds fly, coyotes call
Leaves sway in unison
All across the land
Contentment is ours
To enjoy
All across the land.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
With my heart pounding
deep within my breast
the world continues to spin around.
White doves cry
walrus sing
and
fish reach for the sky.
Nothings felt
that hasn’t been
nothings true if we must begin
begin again.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
The sky is beauty
Flowers be
The most beautiful
Anyone could ever see.
Summers’ come
It’s weaving a warm, soft web
Enveloping all spring’s brought
From winter’s dread.
~Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2016
Feeling lonely and alone
Trapped on a treadmill
Going nowhere
Not back home.
Heart is broken
The sky blue
Tears fall
Masked as rain.
Dropped by a hand
Who doesn’t blame
Anyone
For the shape I’m in.
Only suggests
I must stop, turn around
And
Begin again.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
Know what I’m doing
Know what I did
Now going to where
I love, I live
All is well
And making life
All
That I need, that I give.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
When
The sky is full blue
With light.
The earth warm
From the loving sun
The ocean deep and green
Fish swimming without concerns
It seems.
What a time
What a day
For the sky is full blue
With anticipation and light.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2020
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