Rooftop Poetry Club - Patrice Cathey

Patrice Cathey

Bio:
Patrice Cathey Patrice is a Ph. D. candidate with a BA in English and MS in Education from Canisius College. She is the director of the Liberty Partnerships Program at Buffalo State College.

Patrice is an internationally recognized poet, performer and educator. She reads her poetry with live jazz accompaniment and has received rave reviews for her one woman show, A Woman of Her Words. She is the founder of Poetically Speaking Poetry Workshops for Children and Ethics and Etiquette, a company specializing in business and teen etiquette and social skills.

Patrice has published her first book of poetry, When Poems Takes Wings and is included in the Uncrowned Queens: African American Women Community Builders of Western New York, vol. 2. She is the recipient of many awards including The Buffalo Seminary Distinguished Alumnae Award and B.E.A.M. program's Outstanding Faculty Award.

Poems:

Reality

At some point in life
Lessons repeat themselves
Once too often
Gray hairs turn
Their own shade of pewter
Bald spots sweat
And heartaches break

Then you realize
You've been there
One too many times
Goodbyes then imminent
Regrets weep in agony?
Souls walk inside out
Revealing festering injuries
Infected by microscopic images of us
Continuing to fade
In the distance

At some point in time
Old hopes repeat themselves
Sour your spirit
And die

Little Things Make Me Cry

The gentle touch of a hand
A tear covered smile
The sunrise over the mountains
My view as I gaze at you

Little things make me cry

The innocence of youth
A rain soaked puppy
The laughter of children playing
The wind across my face
Your eyes when they meet mine
The flutter of our true love
And the joy of loving you