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Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 23, 20177:00 am

Vacant yet Vibrant, Alley in Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India

Emptiness ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #84

I often ponder
Choices made
When I’m taking
Photographs

A moment here
A moment there
Adjusting frame
Awaiting light

Or add a child
Just running through
What once was full
Seems emptiness

Which strikes me now
So much like life

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 22, 20171:45 pm

Five Priests

Five priests
Raise fire
Into night

On Ganga banks
At Shiva’s
Light

Where people come
To see
The sight

Some pray
Some pay
In boats
Packed tight

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 201712:10 pm

Cricket Under The Lights, Ganga Banks (Ganges River) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India copy

Games ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #83

The game of games
In every land
Its dreams
Of fame and glory
Roaring crowds
And adulation
Playing out
In young boy’s hearts
Under the lights
Imagining a stadium
Fans in every seat
A swing away
From eternal meaning

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 11, 20179:49 pm

Boats

In the deepening night
Long after Aarti fires
Extinguish
A late boat returns
While some colleagues rest
On gentle ripples
And others await repair
Uncomfortably aground

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 10, 201711:01 pm

Aum, Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India

Aum

Aum
I sing
From deep within

Aum
The sound
Resonates
Like kundalini
When spirit rises
Energy of life
And being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 9, 20177:49 am

Fire and the Boy, The Ganga (Ganges River), Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India copy

Fire ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #82

Every night
The aarti fire
Five priests
Pay homage
To Shiva’s gifts
While one boy
In their shadow
Shines bright

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 8, 201710:57 am

The Birds

They flock
The gulls
To feed
On seed
And bread
That’s thrown
From boats
On which
The tourists
View
The banks
Where
Funeral
Pyres burn
All day
And night

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 7, 20179:54 pm

Jewellery Seller and Pigeons, The Ganga (Ganges River), Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India copy

Marker on the Way Home

She’s my marker
The jewellery seller
Leaning against
The Tower of Baba

I stop by her ad-hoc shop
Mapping my way home
In my mind

From here
A set of stairs
Like a hundred others
All along the the Ganga banks
For miles north and south
Except these stairs
Lead home, almost straight