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Patricia Drake Mar 2013
I always feared
that someday
you would somehow
self destruct
Patricia Drake Mar 2013
There's darkness
In the incandescence of the sun
Rising and setting
In two dimensions
Never reaching
But casting shadows from all

And there's death
In the leaves still hanging
On swaying branches
Happily dancing to tunes
Played by the Northern gale
But soon meant to fall

And there's silence
In the violent storm
Whipping and thrashing
The blooming gardens
And their window spectators
With the lights gone out
And nothing to say

And there's love
In the angry screams
And the frustrated pauses
Thickening the air
When we forget
That we are here
Together
Patricia Drake Mar 2013
My writings are quite versatile
I don't settle for one single style
Sometimes rhymes come rushing to mind
sometimes I cannot even find
a single one

I may write haiku
compelling simplicity
in seventeen beats

In all I write
and everything I am
there is dedication
and genuine love
of language
and what can be said
when rules are bended
but never broken
Patricia Drake Mar 2013
could you fix me a joint
get me high
get me some pills
in fancy colours
some snow
get me high
or a syringe
full of heated escape
from my magnificent ego
would you let me drown
with you?
Don't be mistaken. I don't do drugs. Neither do I plan to. This poem is about wishing that, as a contrast to mundane and rule governed reality,  it would sometimes be possible to let go....
Patricia Drake Mar 2013
It was raining

For months it had been raining
mercury
from tired clouds
onto frigid asphalt streets

she took her time
walking home in the rain
knowing
it would be raining there
too

In her pocket
a world
where the rain had stopped
and its sun
made her break a sweat

she was blushing

She had been blushing for days
sunburnt
from her magic trips
into Eden
Patricia Drake Mar 2013
Silence is fearing
The silence in your presence
Night's painful lessons

Words still unspoken
Treacherous words kept inside
Secrets we must hide

Silence in secrets
Painfully longing for words
Spoken though it hurts
Patricia Drake Mar 2013
Blue clouds
On my little girl's drawings
Because white
Is invisible on white

Blue ocean
Dividing our physical world
Because the sky
Is reflected in its surface

Blue eyes
With stairwells to the soul
Because empathy
Is encapsulated in tears
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