“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

Forgotten Lore

Was it a moment of sanity,
Or had I gone mad?
Daring the near impossible—
Of painting Forgotten Lore.
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Overtaken

No, time itself didn’t stop…
But this hopeless heart did…
Speaking your beautiful words to me…
  It was only ‘hello’, but plenty enough
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You

I think about the times we had
and those we’ve yet to have
About your big brown eyes
and how they stole my heart
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Broken

They pierce my heart…
Big brown eyes…
I fell fast, but…
I fell much harder
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Voices

A dream- it couldn’t have been
For everything felt so real
And if my eyes were shut
Would not the anxiety be less
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The Maiden of the River

Holding her pale body, caressing her, but a lost cause this was, long before she was mine.  It wasn’t what I had just witnessed, but the thoughts ravaging my suffering state, a state so excruciating that I felt nothing
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