A Painting and a Poem by Patsy Blaiser

“ A Dozen Red Roses Have Opened My Heart
P.S. I’m close to my mother and dad and everything and that’s how special they are to me because I love them very much and I said why? And I will take a dozen red roses and go out to the cemetery and put some flowers on their grave. ”

By Patsy Blaiser
June 21, 2011

The red, the yellow and the blue
It’s shaped like a flower
In my heart
Why is that?
Everyone can see me happy
And everything goes right
This area goes from there and this part here is my area
To me, I’ve got somebody in my life
And the flowers are meant to be
Belong to a certain party I know
I wish that he would come up here
And look at the painting that I did
Oliver
He’s nine
He is taller than I am
And he’s really nice to me
He helped me out a lot
He showed me how to be
And the numbers
And the alphabet
And stuff like that
And he said
He makes me happy
He helped me out and everything
When I get stuck
He helped me
To me,
It’s opened my heart up
Every time I see it (this painting)
It tells me my heart has opened up wide
And my life is very special
And that’s why I love these flowers
It talks to me
Because I pray to God
And it has butterflies on it
Along with the flowers
Along with a dozen red roses
I like someone in my life
And he cares about me
He would help me out a lot
That’s what the flowers telling me
I had to tell somebody
It also tells me
A certain party I know will help me out


It’s You.