(7 February 1946 / Liverpool / England)

poet Brian Patten
#95 on top 500 poets

Poems of Brian Patten

1. And Nothing Is Ever As You Want It To Be 1/3/2003
2. Doubt shall not make an end of you 1/3/2003
3. Gust Becos I Cud Not Spel 8/16/2003
4. I have changed the numbers on my watch 1/3/2003
5. In Tintagel Graveyard 1/3/2003
6. Minister for Exams 1/3/2003
7. Nor the Sun its Selling Power 1/3/2003
8. One Another’s Light 3/8/2012
9. Party Piece 1/3/2003
10. Simple lyric 1/3/2003
11. Sometimes it happens 1/3/2003
12. The Day I Got My Finger Stuck Up My Nose 1/3/2003
13. The innocence of any flesh sleeping 1/3/2003
14. The Newcomer 1/3/2003
15. The Right Mask 1/3/2003
16. When you wake tomorrow 1/3/2003
17. You come to me quiet as rain not yet fallen 1/3/2003

When you wake tomorrow

I will give you a poem when you wake tomorrow.
It will be a peaceful poem.
It won’t make you sad.
It won’t make you miserable.
It will simply be a poem to give you
When you wake tomorrow.

It was not written by myself alone.
I cannot lay claim to it.

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