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

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

Starting To Wonder

Beneath the skies whisper
Belongs this innocent girl
Lost in a sea of lavender
She plucks at purple pearls
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Lost In My Thoughts

The flowers speak for me
With their colors so bright
Lost in my thoughts
I’m only able to write
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Patrick Patrick

Now, Let Me Go

As my mind would began to race,
And the confusion quickly set in
I knew of only one place,
It was a place I’d often been
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The Color Of Lilacs

I had imagined it a dream
Or was it all playing out in time
The colors I saw so brilliant
Each so vivid within my mind
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Feeling Blue

Softly, I ask, for why do I feel sorrow,
Is it from years that have passed,
Or could it be the time that I borrow?
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Winter Missing

Not a snowflake fell
Leaves rustle about
Gentle, cool rains
It was all that came
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The Return

The days shadows grew long
The perfect dream was evermore
My tears fell like the softest rain
Returning a soul from its hellish war
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