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Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 29, 201810:50 am

Ghost Gums MacDonnell Ranges Station, Northern Territory, Australia

MacDonnell Ranges Ghost Gums

Twisted
Gnarled

Rock and bough

Resilient
Adaptive

Outback
Beauty

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 27, 20171:09 pm

Gosse Bluff, from the Mereenie Loop, Northern Territory, Australia

Wheels

All I really need
Are wheels

And the fuel
To keep them rolling

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 28, 20172:43 pm

Rollling Hills, The Mereenie Loop, Near Gosse Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia

Rolling Hills

I roll
Into land
Which swallows me
Whole

I mind
Not a bit
Becoming one
With it all

Just me
And the land
And the dance
Of the road

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 10, 201610:14 am

The Mereenie Loop, Grassland, Near Gosse Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia

The Singing Land

In this land
Of endless grass
And rolling hills
With scattered trees
And clinging brush

We roll on through
With singing tires
On bitumen
Both dreaming of
This singing land

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 23, 20166:16 am

Macdonnell Ranges, Mereenie Loop, Northern Territory, Australia

Glimpses

Sometimes

I only have a glimpse
Of the way ahead
Through difficult terrain
Many sections of the path
Remain obscured
And the final destination
Still lies beyond
The visible horizon

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 31, 20168:56 pm

The Mereenie Loop, Near Gosses Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia

Into Unknown Worlds

The land rolls
Like waves across the sea
Like the grasses
In staccato breeze

And there go we
Like sailors
Over the rolling land
Into unknown worlds

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 4, 20167:00 am

Grasslands, The Mereenie Loop, Near Gosses Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia

Endless

There are places
Which seem an endless space
Like the land goes on forever
Into nothingness

But when I look more closely
Therein lies the beauty
I see the endless changes
And nothing less

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 18, 20165:43 pm

McDonnell Ranges, The Mereenie Loop, Northern Territory, Australia

Sometimes the Water Runs Hard

Sometimes the water runs hard
Knocking rock loose
To tumble and gouge
Cutting the gully ever deeper

Drought leaves the gully quiet
What water there is
Seeps down a shaded wall
Trickles in the valley

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 20, 201512:17 pm

Mereenie Loop, Northern Territory, Australia

The air, like Earth

In a roly poly land
I stand atop a hill
Above the grasses and gum trees
Feeling the air ripple across me
It fills the space of this wide open land
As if it were part of the Earth

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 13, 201512:21 pm

Into the Red Centre

Four wheels
Four cylinders
Four windows
All rolled down

At eighty
Kilometers per hour
4-80 air conditioning