This Is the Way It Is from the Heart

By Paul Pattinson

About the Book

This is the way it is from the Heart is all my Poetry from 1992 till present day.
The poems relate to sadness, trauma, humour, everyday life, relationships, dark side, Environment, and Mother Nature.
Something within my book could relate to you the reader.
I have experienced some of the poems within this book.

You should enjoy reading it may make you cry or laugh but you will enjoy reading..


Paul Pattinson

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Dec 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524596613

Paul Pattinson

About The Author I was born in the town of Barrow in Furness 1962 we moved to Manchester where I completed my Education. I wrote Two Donkeys and a Rabbit in 1996 Maidstone Kent followed by Buckles the second part to the story. All Paintings within this Booklet have been done in Watercolour Paints all pictures are now framed My book of the two stories I myself continue to read them and do hope that whoever reads them have the same enjoyment as I did when I wrote them years ago. It was not until now in the beginning of 2016 I decided to share my stories with you the reader. All Artwork has been hand painted using Watercolour Paints by my only one hand when I had a mini stroke called a TIA in 2012. All Paintings are framed and dated. My second book About the Book This is the way it is from the Heart is all my Poetry from 1992 till present day. The poems relate to sadness, trauma, humour, everyday life, relationships, dark side, Environment, and Mother Nature. Something within my book could relate to you the reader. I have experienced some of the poems within this book. You should enjoy reading it may make you cry or laugh but you will enjoy reading.. Paul Pattinson

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Copyright © 2016 by Paul Pattinson.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2016920296

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5245-9663-7

                Softcover        978-1-5245-9662-0

                eBook             978-1-5245-9661-3

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Rev. date: 12/08/2016

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Contents

The Story of Dodger Pattinson

Today is so Full of Fun

Delivering Time

Wrote a Book

Maggie Lee

Light of Time

Nowhere to Go

Growing Wild

A Stressed-Out Geezer

Why Me

Spotlight Beam

River Running Wild

Prisoner of the mind

Someone Knows

The Day You’re Old

Get It Right

Take a Walk

Having a Drink

Mother

I’m Gonna Love You Too

Horizon of the Sun

Sweet Dreams

Hitchhiker

Words

The Exam

Tears in the Rain

Forgotten Goodbyes

Fuck All and Everything

Lady Luck

Whispering Little Secrets

Torn Apart

Royal Star Café

Unlawful Sins

Grind

The Artist and the Poet

Show Me How

Dark Side

Closed Heaven’s Door

Don’t Call My Name

The Right Way to Go

Feelings

The Funny Side

Faces

Walk in the Country

Atmosphere

Happy Birthday

Perfect Timing

The National Lottery

Heart of Kent

The Northern Winds

The Sun Never Goes Down on a Good Poet

History Hits The News

Cumbrian Mountains

My Angel

Lillian Pattinson

The Rose

Tell he Government

Newsprint’s Fine

A Cockney Cumbrian Counterfoil

Subsequently Flourishing

Cottage of Romance

Retired

My Love

Lakeland

Standing Bare

The Fells of Ennerdale

The Last Fiver

Fifteen Minutes of Fame

Two Donkeys and a Rabbit

Out of Time

Paranoid

Buckles

The Story of Dodger Pattinson

A Letter

Lost Love

True Love

My Way

Gone Fishing

Gone Today

The Power of the Mind

Broken Heart

All Right Tonight

Romance to Find

I Cry

The World

The Story of Dodger Pattinson

Dodger was his nickname, most people know,

Foxhound trails are where he would go,

He knew these mountains, better than most,

And here today, I’m at the starting post.

‘Sweet Ennerdale’ was the song he sang,

Trailing the Cumbrian Mountains was that man,

Holding his horn and walking stick,

‘Sweet Ennerdale’, ‘Sweet Ennerdale’ was the song he picked.

From the short time that I knew him and the stories that he told,

Sitting by the fireside, away from the cold,

The sweet smell of aroma from his pipe,

Surrounded the kitchen and dimmed the light.

He showed me walking sticks that he had made,

By his hands and a sharpened blade,

My memory of him will never die,

As I know he is with us, as a spirit in the sky.

We all knew him in our own special way,

Some because of his songs and what others say,

Dodger, we’ll all miss you, especially me,

For your courage and, most of all, your personality.

June 1992

Today is so Full of Fun

Somewhere within the distance,

Of all shadows floating by,

Was a silver cloud,

Which stood in the crowd,

In the clearing of the deep blue sky.

The weather changed so suddenly,

It finally began to rain,

And today was so full of fun,

My sides were full of pain.

So with all the fun I had,

Of today’s clouds and rain,

I think I’ll take the next flight out,

To the sunny side of Spain.

Delivering Time

Time is such a virtue from within the mind,

Altogether better you will surely find,

The clock ticks away as your life expires,

From the bottomless pit are your heart’s desires.

Taking