Posts Tagged ‘Patrice’

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No More Today

July 10, 2023
No More Today - Photo by Patrice

No more
Today. 

Tomorrow
Will be
What it turns out
To be. 

But
Today, only today
I’ll let it be. 

I’ll sit back
And
Enjoy my solitude
My serenity. 
~ Patrice 

@Patrice Clarkson – 2023

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No One Will Be

July 6, 2023
No One Will Be ~ Watercolour Art by Patrice

No one will be 
No one can be
In the same time, place
Ever
Ever as me.

It may be tomorrow
Or
The day after that
I’ll be in heaven
Smiling down
On all this, all that.

Where I’ll be wondering
Why I cared
If no one
was in the same time, place 
As me.

Like today 
I’ll be  wondering
Just wondering all this
And
Of course, all that. 
~ Patrice 

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@Patrice Clarkson – 2023

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What’s Right

July 5, 2023
What's Right ~ Illustration by Patrice for Holt, Rinehart and Winston's reader, 'Flights Near And Far'

Working on what’s right
On
What to say
When everything comes to light
When all see
What completes the day. 

Then
I’ll have the words
That’s when I’ll know
What to say. 

This is what I tell myself
Worried, I’m lying
Worried
 I don’t really know
What’s right
Or
What I need to say.  
~ Patrice 

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@Patrice Clarkson – 2023

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No One Tells Me

July 4, 2023
No One Tells Me ~ Photo by Patrice

No one tells me
No one says
The words I need to hear
Need inside my brain
My head.

They are out there
They have been said

Just not to me
They still do not live here
Within my body
Within
My questioning head. 
~ Patrice 

@Patrice Clarkson – 2023

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Conspiracy

June 30, 2023

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Deer at the deck ~ Photo by Patrice

Conspiracy comes and flows
Taking breath
Out of control
No one knows who to trust
Where safe lives
Or
Whether the world
As we know it
Will turn to dust.

Conspiracy shows
She has no mercy
Reigning ruthlessly
Laughing at despair
Smirking
At courtesy.

Conspiracy destroys
Undermines
The beauty of innocence
And
Tenderness becomes
An unimaginable crime.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2019

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Beauty And Tolerance Are Key

June 29, 2023
Beauty And Tolerance Are Key ~ Photo by Patrice

Beauty and tolerance are key to me
For a life full
Of
Love and majesty.

Let me
Keep on this path
Let me be in love with life
No matter what comes to be.  
~ Patrice 

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@Patrice Clarkson – 2023

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Heaven Sees, Heaven Knows

June 27, 2023
Heaven Sees, Heaven Knows ~ Watercolour by Patrice

Heaven sees, heaven knows
All the happenings
We need not
Disclose
Our trials, our tribulations
All our triumphs  
For 
She knows.

Tomorrow
Heaven will know, will see 
Cause
She lives
Lives within us all 
Inside of you, inside of me. 
~ Patrice  

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@Patrice Clarkson – 2023

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Before You Went Away

June 26, 2023
Before You Went Away ~ Photo by Patrice

You didn’t tell me
You didn’t say
Those words I needed to hear
Before
Before you went away.

Silence is all I hear
Silence
Fills the hour, the day.

I’d hoped
To hear you speak
I’d hoped
You’d say
Soft, loving words to me
Before you left
Before you went away
~ Patrice 

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@Patrice Clarkson – 2023

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I Know The Difference

June 23, 2023

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Martin River Morning ~ Photo by Patrice

I know the difference
Between frozen and tropical land
I know light is not dark
And dark is not light.

I know the difference
Between morning and evening light
The difference is obvious
They are not alike.

But the in-between is hazy
Not easy to read
A conundrum for sure
Not darkness nor light
It seems.
~ Patrice

© Patrice Clarkson – 2019

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Don’t Let Me Be

June 22, 2023
Don't Let Me Be ~ Painting by Patrice

Don’t let me be
The one who cries
Incessantly. 

Don’t let me be
The one who mistakes
Happiness
For something else
Something, I don’t want to be. 

Don’t let me be
All alone
In the midst of splendour
Please, don’t let me
Don’t let me be. 
~ Patrice 

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@Patrice Clarkson – 2023