“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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Every Dream Is Real

They’ve waited a lifetime,
Albeit, the years few
This hour sublime,
It’s which they pursue
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Emily's Revenge

It could have been easier, so much easier, if he had only decided on another course of action that late evening’s night.  I ponder back on it now, and a thousand words of terror still haunt my mind.  What was the
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Ariel

This winters eve, almost two years ago
An unfathomable lady, is a story now told
It was fast and hard, that I did fell
A miracle of nature, her name, Ariel
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