Hold me, hold me close
let me be intertwined
with your strength, your beauty
your majesty
No more
no more to need anyone
but you
Let me
feel
your generosity
Let me too
give
all I can to those
needing
Needing me
needing all
that can be given
can be.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024
You come to me
You tell me things
I can’t comprehend
Nor
Understand.
It seems those things
Those that you
Tell me
Are beyond
My knowledge, my reasoning
Nothing
That I know of
Or
Understand.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024
In this day
I wonder
Where, what will appear
Go away?
Nothing changes
Yet
Everything
Does.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2024
I know
You’re not here with me
I know
You’ve been called away
To take care of someone
Who needs you
More
More than me
I know
You will be back
You’ll be here
Once more with me
When I need you
Need you
Desperately.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Coffee is the one
I love
The one I need
Nearby me
In the morning
He wakes, lets me see
The beauty in the world
It’s majesty.
Then at night he’s there
Beside of me
Breathing quietly, snoring
Oh so gently.
No bad dreams
Disrupt my sleep
For
He’s at guard, he protects me.
My sweet coffee
Is
The one I love
The one I need
And I will
For all of eternity.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson. – 2023
I have been working on the art for my 2024 Art & Affirmation Calendar.
Coffee is the 4th in the series of paintings.
I knew Coffee and his folks and it has been very personal for me working on this painting.
Coffee passed away last year and is solely missed by all his family.
The above poem was written for them.
Watch me create at Patrice’s 2024 Art & Affirmation Calendar
You have been
The best you can to me
I appreciate your love
Your honesty
May we be arm in arm
Together
As we travel through time
From now
To eternity’s distant place
Distant time.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
A heart touched
By a loving paw and a wet nose
Is a heart
Forever
Forever full.
~ Patrice
@Patrice Clarkson – 2023
Thoughts and memories
Come into my head
Some beautiful
Some filled with dread.
I think of them and then
Let those memories go
Back to the place where
All memories need to go.
There to stay til drawn again
To the front of my mind
To relive and live
Those memories one moe time
One moe time again.
~ Patrice
© Patrice Clarkson – 2018
Hold them close
and
very tight
Feel your breath
breathe love
in the morning light
Let no soul travel
the path taken
all alone
No, never
never alone.
~ Patrice
@ Patrice Clarkson – 2022
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