Category: Fujifilm X-T2

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 21, 20192:53 pm

dis connect, Barcelona Waterfront, Catalonia, Spain

dis connect ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #184

I look
Neither inward
Nor outward

I connect
Not with being
But a fetish

This realm
Of virtual
Manifestation

And while I look
And while I connect
I am lost

To the moment
To my own presence
To being itself

While all around
Existence dances and plays
Without my participation

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 20, 20197:00 am

Hotel Lobby and Foyer,Dar Dadicilef Hotel, Chefchaouen, Morocco

Blue on Blue in Blue

Saturated in hues
Blue on blue in blue
Ah, but for the greens

Exposed to amber orb unseen
The garden under blue

Beyond crimson weave’s surround of blue

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 19, 20195:45 pm

Whimsy in blues and golds and balloons, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Whimsy is a Child

Whimsy in blues and balloons
Lines light and playful
As a child’s smile
In twilight illuminate
Mother impatient
For changing lights
Her girl content
With latex-captured breath

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 18, 20194:03 pm

Follow Me

Light filters down
To dim blue depths
Where it pools
In lazy patterns
Upon empty lanes
Marked here and there
With blood red tiles
And doors
While wicker lines the walls

I grab a basket
From a hook
Gather light
From the pools
To carry further
Into navy
And the black
Where deepest shadows lay

There I breathe
In dim recess
The light across
All wavelengths
Equal bright
Spirit-pure the white
With neither heat nor harm
To eyes which can now see
Beyond the self
The wall of me

I spy infinity within
Infinity without
And in between
A single point
Without space
Or time
To count
Not even
Infinitesimal
Amount

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 17, 20193:06 pm

Confinement

Bound
In heart and spirit

Lost
On a forkless path

Stop
Look for a door
A ladder, a rope

Turn
Seek another path
Upon retraced steps

Wait
For alternatives
To appear

Move
Follow the instinct
Which began this path

Despair
There is no despair
Only tenacity

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 201910:26 pm

Shadow Maker

Sometimes the light
Is too bright
Too hot to bear

So I shelter
In a shadow

Of my own making

I see this now
Without judgment

The light remains
The shadow is
Temporary

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 15, 20192:19 pm

Blue

I get the blues sometimes
Not that there’s anything wrong with that
Blue was my favourite colour as a child
Even now, in the blues, there is a beauty

And options

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 14, 20192:10 pm

Risk Cacophony, Hotel Continental, Tangier, Morocco

Risk ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #183

Where might have been cacophony
Strokes live within the harmony
Such vital vessel filled
To the edge of overflowing
Yet some subtle restraint
Where plaster once was white
Vibrant colours paint
A whole which comes across
So beautifully

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 13, 20197:00 am

Palau De Les Arts, Ciuitat De Les Arts I Les Sciences, Valencia, Spain c

Go Fish

It startled him

The monumental lines of architecture
Seemed to flex
As a bow drawn by its string
Then paused there
Taught, straining
As if for a steadying breath

The release
Was even more startling
And he felt the shock wave
When the discharged tension
Shook the earth
As the mammoth thing
Quite simply
Leapt from the ground

Untethered as it was
From gravity
It swam lazily
Through the thin atmosphere
Toward a horizon
It would soon enough
Disappear beyond

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 12, 20197:00 am

Windows

Windows from some unknown world
Unto some other unknown world
None which I have ever known
And may not ever know
Though with imagination
Images gained from books and film
I construct a room to serve
The needs of sultans and imams
Rich tapestries and silken rugs
Exotic woods and metals
Carved and cast exquisitely
Servants and the visitors
Pilgrims and the diplomats
Bustling in the courtyard splendour
All in reverence to the will
Of God and those who know his ends
Within these windows and their view