Posts Tagged ‘Patrice’

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Tell Me

January 20, 2016

Love and Tenderness ~ Painting by Patrice

Tell me
Tell me why
Don’t mince the words
You can
Put them all out
And tell me why.

Maybe cushion the bitter
Filter the kind
But
Don’t agonize or design
Just tell me
Tell me why.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2016

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Let My Heart Feel

January 19, 2016

Mom and Twiggy ~ Photo by Patrice

Let my heart feel
The strain of loving
And losing again
The sorrow that follows
The crying that weeps.

Then let me feel
True love creep
Back into my heart, let it seep
With no sorrow nor crying
Or making me weep.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2016

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In The Beginning Of Our Life

January 18, 2016

Birthday Boy ~ Photo by John

In the beginning of our life
We remember nothing
Of that world we came from.

Floating sweetly, curled in repose
Sucking thumb, I suppose
Resting quietly we did sleep
Within the womb
Where I think, life was sweet
No sorrow, laughter
Or mocking grins
Life was simple way back then.

We came to this world I think
Remembering nothing of that life
A world innocent and sweet.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2016

Sharon ~ Unknown photographer

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Tortured Souls Hear The Pain

January 15, 2016

Patrice's avatarPatrice’s Art & Poetry Blog

Tortured souls hear the pain
Nothing in it, all in vain
Climbing out, out from pain
Crucial not to be flushed
Down the drain.

Melody running in my head
Ponder what I really dread
Muster forth the power said
Rock all that fuels
This in my head.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2012

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I Know The Reason Why I Cry

January 14, 2016

When I know the reason why I cry
I will cry the song of long ago
The one each and everyone does know
The song that fills the sky
With wonders no one can deny
Lives beneath the earth
In our hearts and all creatures
That walk the earth.

When I know the reason why
Why I cry, I cry.
~ Patrice

Water and Iguana - Photo by Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2016

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Tender Mercies

January 13, 2016

Dobie pup ~ Drawing by Patrice

Tender mercies
Tender thoughts
Bringing me gladness
Bringing me thoughts.

Soft and gentle
Full
Of what I have
Not what I have not.

Tender mercies
Tender thoughts
Resting peacefully
Here in my thoughts.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2016

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The Call Of The Jay

January 12, 2016

The call of the jay rips thru still, damp air
Mist rises while a red squirrel fights for his share
As a deer trudges pass all these affairs
No one notices the cardinal’s not there.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2016

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See The Snow Fall

January 11, 2016

Winter's Lane ~ Photo by Patrice

See the snow fall
See it coming down
Lying quietly upon the ground.

Not in repose but instead
Covering with a snowy blanket
A sleeping ground
That’s waiting
Waiting for warmth
To come round once again.

See the snow fall
See it fall, coming down
Coming down again.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2016

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Why Are We Here?

January 8, 2016

Patrice's avatarPatrice’s Art & Poetry Blog

Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where will we go?
Have we been here before?
All questions that have been asked for a extremely long time.

Does my dog, my cat or horse ask the same questions? Does the deer wandering thru the woods think of these things? Does the robin sitting on her nest of eggs?

I wonder…

~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2012

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We Remember We Forget

January 7, 2016

Photo by Mom and Dad

We remember we forget
All the rights, the wrongs
Some regrets.

Fill the sky
With singing cries as
Lasting earth gives us birth.

No more to tread
On unsound ground
Fly our journey
The world round.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2016