Category: Canon 5D Mark II

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 19, 201810:55 am

Rock and Sky and Sea, Howe Sound, Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

Rock to Sea to Sky

From rock to rock
Across the sea
Beneath the sky

The rugged land
A windward lee

And as the ripples
Lap the shore
The air, it riffles
Through my hair

Now calm descends
Upon my brow

My heart
In gentle rhythm
With the waves

Sun warms my face
This life like art

No better hand
Could wield a brush
Paint such perfection
On my soul

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 17, 20181:40 pm

Stochastic

Little dots of existence
Racking up time and substance
From pointillistic nothings

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 28, 201812:54 pm

Stormtrooper Street Art, Blood Alley, Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lines & Words

I love

how a brush stroke
or a phrase
can create

an icon

how few lines
or words
are required

to tell a story

and how every story
and every icon
means something different

to everyone

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 18, 20187:23 am

Patterns in Steel, Alphanumeric Sphere, New Westminster Public Library, New Westmeinster, British Columbia, ,Canada

Finding the Steel

Beaten
Crushed
Defeated

I find the steel
Within
To go on

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 19, 20182:59 pm

Old Wood Cool

He was old wood cool
Rugged, lined and beautiful
Someone people clung to
Like paint

He didn’t choose his friends
Everyone was welcome
And he played no favourites
But few weathered well in his company
Most faded quickly
In that radiant presence

I loved the bastard
And hated him

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 15, 201810:34 am

Painting in Shop Window, Gastown, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Eye

Eye check my ego
Eye check my arrogance

Eye look in the mirror
Remind myself to look away
So eye can see the me who is
Rather than the me who is seen

Eye reflect on my deeds, on my actions
Measure them against my ideals, my beliefs

I is a thing
Which cannot see
Beyond the shell
Which houses I

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 4, 201811:42 am

Breathing Fire, New Brighton Park, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Imagination ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #129

In the dimness
I saw a monster on my bed
But just a towel
In a jumble
A child’s mind
Trying to make sense

In reflections
I see a dragon breathing fire
But just a building
With a light on
Like the child
Imagination still at play

Should the day come
When I see only what’s there
No monsters, no dragons
Which I playfully must slay
How sad I will be
In a world so plain and grey

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 7, 20177:00 am

Flood of Truth

It was an open secret
Yearning for its time
To become an open truth

When time came
Truth was a flood
Which swept the world clean

And like the river Nile
After the waters recede
Fertile ground remained

A gift
Of the tide
Of reckoning

Canon 5D Mark II by Patrick JenningsOct 20, 20177:00 am

Courage, A-Maze-ing Laughter, Yue Minjun, West End, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Courage (for Gordon Downie)

We lost a good one this week in Canada, Gordon Downie, frontman, lyricist, songwriter for The Tragically Hip, a Canadian rock powerhouse. In the 80s and 90s, they were probably my favourite band.

This song, Courage (for Hugh MacLennan), has always resonated deeply with me. In 1998, while spending six months bicycling across China, it inspired this blog post from the road. As it turns out, with all that’s going on in the world right now, it proves a timely reminder to get back on the path of love and light and insight. It was a path Gordon Downie forged and followed vigorously, right up to the very end.

Here’s to you, Gordon. And thanks, again, for all the insight.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 28, 20173:36 pm

Cloudy sky, Thompson River Valley, Savona, British Columbia, Canada

So Many “Me”s

There are so many places
Wanderlust takes me
And every one
Brings out
Another
Me