Category: Olympus OM-2

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 8, 202110:24 pm

Not a Tree but a Twig, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States of America

Scale ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #268

A matter of scale

Not a tree
But a twig

Not a mountain
Nor a mound

But a small deposit
Of mineral Earth
Boiled up from below

Perhaps more beautiful
Than it deserves to be

Like the problems I face
And resolve
Every day

Small deposits
All growing into me

Perhaps more beautiful
Than I deserve to be

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 27, 202011:41 am

Time and Patience, Horseshoe Bend, Colorado River, Page, Arizona, United States of America

Patience and Peace

I remind myself
Time and water
Carved this canyon
From solid rock

Though patience
And softness
Cannot resolve
Every problem

The peace flowing
From their practice
Bears a reward
Of its own

As I watch
The sun set
Upon the stone
The river cut

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 26, 20206:57 pm

Endurance & Tenacity

With endurance and
Tenacity we survived
Year 2020

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 24, 202012:30 pm

Erosion

It’s not that a few
Rise to the top
It’s that the many
Are beaten down

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 23, 20202:22 pm

The Maze

I was already deep inside
And lost
Before I realized it was a
Maze

But there are times
Places
To not mind being
Lost

The walls seemed sculpted
Textured
With saturated tones of
Warmth

And so I walked
Aimless
Lost in the beauty of the
Walls

Until suddenly I was
Outside
Safe, yet wanting to go
Back

Sometimes it is
OK
To lose my
Self

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 20, 202012:15 pm

Cadillac Ranch, Route 66, Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Landscapes

These things we do to landscapes

Of space and time
Of politics and social norms
Of family and friends

The things that stay
But never stay the same

The ephemeral things
Lost and soon forgotten

Nothing ever stays
But change

Which is often the point
Of these things we do to landscapes

Change the landscape
Change each other
Change ourselves

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 29, 20203:05 pm

Patrick, Vagabond, Seman Hotel, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China

Vagabond ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #238

Note:
Rule change this week!
See below.

To move
Through time and space
By act of will

Undeterred and
Undirected by
Duty or responsibility

Led not by
Leash or force
Nor beholden to another’s wish

But to stay
In just one place
So long as restless heart desires this

Then move along
To some place other
There to find what’s there to see

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 20, 20196:48 pm

wordy window on the world, mojave desert, route 66, california, united states of america copy

Words ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #171

I am no Poet
Least not in
The classic Poet’s manner

I’ve never studied
What the Poets say
Nor worried much
How they place their words
Or why that way

I do not know
How to write a sonnet
I am not sure
What makes pentameter
Iambic

I hope that’s OK

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 28, 201810:23 am

Blackened Earth, Highway G215, Nearing Liuyuanzhen, Gansu Province, China

Rolling through the Ebony

Rolling through
A land of crushed ebony
Tarry asphalt dividing
The slender white lane markers
And scrubby tufts of amber

I scramble up an ebony mound
To find a landscape of ebony mounds
Growing to distant mountains
All of the same ebony skin

“At least,” I think, out loud
Into the air so dry
It swallows up the words
Right off my tongue
“the falling sun seems less
Like a fire
On a cast-iron skillet.”

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 20, 20187:00 am

Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Plateau

I dig down
Unpack another layer
I dig down
Unpack another layer

Another
Another
Another

How many layers deep?
I see only the next

Unpack another
See another

Unpack
Another

Until I don’t want
To see anymore
Unpack anymore
Dig anymore