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Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 15, 20157:00 am

Stone Castles

Like a child
Stacking clay dollops
One by one by one
Building castles
In the sand

So too does Nature
Carve and weather
Heave and crumble
Building castles
Made of stone

Abstract by Patrick JenningsSep 14, 20157:00 am

Amber on Red under Blue

We rolled up to Devil’s Marbles in the heat of the afternoon, the sun high and hot, the gravel parking lot kicking up dust with every step. Too hot to unpack. Too hot to clamber over the enormous stands of neatly stacked, smooth-edged boulders. Too far from Alice Springs to move on.

There was a little breeze, a few roofed camping platforms, so we parked ourselves beneath one while the ’79 Holden Gemini baked out in the sun.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 13, 20157:43 pm

Spheres

Red and blue
Lines run true
Smoothly
Curvilinear

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 10, 20158:47 am

Presence

There are people who’ve come through my life
Some I’ve held onto
Some, I’ve let go
Some slipped quietly into the past

But they’ve all touched me
I would not be who I am
Without their influence

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 10, 20157:00 am

Thai Sunset

A setting sun
Illuminates existence
So that its divinity
Is apparent
To even the most ardent atheist

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 9, 201511:02 pm

A casual observation

Waiting out the rain
She hunkers down
In the narrow dryness
Of a doorway’s eaves

On her way
To Hanoi’s mobile market
A vibrant gesticulation
Of colour and sass
Gentle salesmanship
And meagre means

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 8, 201511:02 pm

Touched by Divinity

Sometimes, there is beauty
In a moment
Which takes my breath away

As if touched by divinity

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 5, 20153:52 pm

The beauty and insight I will never know

It is not the unknown
Which frightens me
But the stories I create
To comfort my ignorance

And so I forfeit
The beauty
And insight
I will never know

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 22, 201510:22 am

Expressing the divine within

The works of women and men
Are seldom so exquisitely beautiful
As when they are motivated by passion
For something greater than themselves

Whether that passion be God
Or Gaia
An ideal
Or a cause
Beauty
Or love

People by Patrick JenningsAug 21, 20157:00 am

Tak on the Andaman Sea

There are some combinations of people, places and experiences permanently etched in my aging memory. For example, the ever-smiling, ever-present, energetic Tak, who I met at a Krabi, Thailand resort. He was an every-thing employee. Concierge, server, maintenance, bell-boy. There seemed hardly an event, a meal, a moment at the collection of bungalows which did not involve his presence.