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

— William Hazlitt

Patrick Patrick

The Killer

As the hands of the clock kissed each other, the sound of midnight struck, a resonance causing dust to drift like snowflakes, across the moonlit room, landing ever so softly upon floor. The hours
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Patrick Patrick

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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Patrick Patrick

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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Patrick Patrick

The Witness

The cold rain on my shoulders
A bizarre evening in store
As I peer in through the curtains
I’m stunned to my core
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