Brian Patten

(7 February 1946 / Liverpool / England)

poet Brian Patten
#91 on top 500 poets

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  • Shiva yadav (10/5/2018 7:17:00 AM)

    Brain pattern ke baare mein

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  • Shiva yadav (10/5/2018 7:16:00 AM)

    About writ

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  • ryot68ibux lover (5/14/2018 4:59:00 AM)

    excuse me how do you get a free robux generator

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  • dejio (5/14/2018 4:56:00 AM)

    i heard keemstar was here

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  • martha (5/2/2018 2:01:00 AM)

    im trying to find THE LITTLE GOST SONG LYRICS


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  • rcnewby@hotmail.com (4/29/2018 6:01:00 PM)

    I've always remembered this line, can't catch a butterfly with a sledge hammer, so true. I gave up trying and it worked.

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  • Tom Allport (10/14/2017 6:39:00 AM)

    Hi Brian, I was just thinking what your current thoughts are on one of your poems called Looking Back at It and if there was any lessons learnt from when you first wrote it? ............best wishes TA

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  • Brigie Murphy (6/21/2015 6:03:00 AM)

    Hi, I am doing one of your poems for my drama exam, it is... A SMALL DRAGON. I really like this poem

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  • Afifa Ahmed (2/7/2015 5:55:00 AM)

    Please can I have the answer today as I need it for homework

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  • Afifa Ahmed (2/7/2015 5:54:00 AM)

    What is the figurative language used in this poem

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Best Poem of Brian Patten

And Nothing Is Ever As You Want It To Be

You lose your love for her and then
It is her who is lost,
And then it is both who are lost,
And nothing is ever as perfect as you want it to be.

In a very ordinary world
A most extraordinary pain mingles with the small routines,
The loss seems huge and yet
Nothing can be pinned down or fully explained.

You are afraid.
If you found the perfect love
It would scald your hands,
Rip the skin from your nerves,
Cause havoc with a computered heart.

You lose your love for her and then it is her who is lost.
You tried not to hurt and ...

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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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