Author: Patrick Jennings

I travel, when I can. Write, when inspired. Photograph, where there's beauty. Make films, for a living. Oh, and I play a decent didjiridu.

Landscape by Patrick JenningsMay 22, 20157:00 am

Missed opportunity?

On first glance, you may think the title is about a derelict gas station on some forlorn stretch of lonely desert highway.

You’d be wrong.

It’s about a photographer realising the shot he’ll never have another opportunity to shoot could have been so much better.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 21, 20157:00 am

Faint Hope

Faint hope

Like the sun, shrouded
Seeking the balcony

Like the little Buddha
An outline in the shadows

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 20, 20155:28 pm

You and the Wall were never Friends

Some days
No matter how beautiful it seems
From the perspective you’re viewing
Or how comfortable you feel
Right where you’re standing

Ya just gotta stop
Take stock
And realise

You’ve hit a wall

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 20, 201511:42 am

Midway Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United states of America

Beauty expressed for a different mind

Some cannot see the beauty
In a burned-out forest
So I find it for her

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 20, 20157:00 am

In the dawn time

When the light lies low
Yet vibrant

When the dew clings
And the earth seems still

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 19, 20151:01 pm

Walls within Walls

Walls within walls
Doorways within doorways
Once forbidden
Once foreboding

Layers of mystery
Peeled away
By time
Politics
And Money

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 19, 20159:16 am

Standing Watch, Standing Fast

Three sentinels stand watch
Over the graves of
Cowboys and movie stars
Where the Navajo stand fast

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 19, 20158:44 am

Relentless Pursuit

The sun follows
In relentless pursuit
Leaving footprints
In the sky

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 18, 20158:47 am

The Story Machine

This is the Story Machine
It loves tragedy
And violence
And Happy Endings

And so its stories tell us
A world all out-of-kilter
At war, and in poverty
Has Happy Endings

Detail by Patrick JenningsMay 18, 20157:00 am

Risk it

When we talk about our lives, it’s not the stories about the safe paths we have taken which become our favourite stories to tell. Risky choices make the best tales, no matter the difficulties, no matter the outcomes.