Category: Cameras

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 30, 20189:13 pm

Two Uyghur Girls, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China

Girls ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #155

Rage rises

With every
Repetition

“Boys will be boys”
They say

All around
The world

Meaning
Simply

Girls are made
To be had

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 23, 201811:09 pm

Badlands Erosion, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Limbs ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #154

Limbs
Intertwined
Breath
On my wrist
Breast
In my hand
Eyes
In a dream

Asleep
In my arms
Your back
On my chest
The trust
This implies
The love
In my heart

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 16, 201810:58 am

Emptiness ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #153

On the prairie
Where the land is wide
And the sky is high and pretty

Gravel and dust and grain
Roads that go on forever

In the mountains
I feel diminutive
Until I climb
And conquer one
Stand on top of the world

What is there to conquer here
But a thousand miles
Of horizon

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 15, 20182:36 pm

Wealth From A Golden Land

A man of the city
Standing
In an open land
Amber and azure
Wheat waist high
Scattered clouds
Dot the sky

And I wonder
That I have never stood
In a field of grain
Ripened
Ready for harvest

This golden crop
The wealth which builds cities
Known to urbanites like me
Only as bread
Or an image on a cereal box

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 9, 20189:01 pm

Coast Mountains Wildfires, British Columbia, Canada

Fire ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #152

I cannot see the fire
Still, the sky betrays its presence
As yet the flames present no danger
Though the possibility be mentioned

So am I reminded
A threat may seem remote
Or weak in its intention

But a threat it is
Toxic in its notion

I do well to heed an atmosphere in tension

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 8, 20184:16 pm

where there is fire, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Where There’s Fire

Sinewy sifting
Suffusing valleys
Smoke expanding
Soft stifling blanket
Seeking prairies
Eastward

Landscape by Patrick JenningsSep 3, 20182:33 pm

Black Kite over Red Fort, Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi, New Delhi, India III

Naught but the Light

In the darkness
Lay the deepest shadows
Where no light has fallen
For so many years

I visit with them
Let the shadows
Fall under my light
Until they become known to me

Appreciate them for their wisdom
Thank them for their insight
Forgive them for their fears and distractions

Illumined, I see their purpose

Detail by Patrick JenningsSep 2, 20182:20 pm

Detail ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #151

Enrapt in detail
Subtlety and nuance
Lovely and enthralling
I follow the forms
Savour the textures
Delight in the harmonics
Of ever-changing repetitions

Lost in the detail
Context and meaning
Evasive and fractured
I swirl in a sea of the minute
Fruitlessly distracted
Diverted from the present
By endless possibilities

So must I be alert
To the scale of perception
Find the balance between
A piece and the whole
A detail and its meaning
An event and its context

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 1, 20187:19 pm

Morning Light

The morning light
Lazily
Through the mist
Highlights fall
On leading edge
While shadows spread
Beyond the stone
On darkened seas
With riffling waves
Curling round
The citadels
Like cirrus clouds
In gentle skies
Blue on blue
White on white
The sea
The sky
In harmony

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 27, 20185:02 pm

Dancing with the Darkness

Standing in the light
I see the darkness
The evil from which I emerged
Clearly
For the first time

Just as I cannot know the light
Without darkness
So too I cannot know the darkness
Without light

I thought I knew the darkness well
When I was caught in it
As it touched me
As it coursed through me

I believed the darkness was me

Standing in the light
I sense the true nature of my being
Radiating this warm glow

I have not emerged from the darkness
I have shed it
Like a cloak
Beneath which the light
Has always burned
Will always burn
Has always kept the darkness
In its dark