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Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 13, 20167:21 pm

Sunrise, 13,000 feet, Mount Kinabalu, Malaysian Borneo

Stratospheric Sunrise

Climb up into darkling sky
Long before the sun awakes
Ambush it there
In its rising shout
Neon rainbow
Across the world
Beyond the edge
Of Earth
Beyond the realm
Of life itself

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 11, 201610:58 am

Stone and Wood and Time, Kata Tjuta, The Olgas, Northern Territory, Australia

Withering ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #54

Look at you!
Said the stone
Sun has had his way
Now you are naught
But gray
And withering
While I?
Sun has burnished me
Patinaed stone
Bright red, you see

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 6, 20169:58 pm

An Alien Beauty

I learn the bounds
Of my sense of beauty
When I see an alien eye
Rendering a familiar form

I am transported
To other worlds
To other dreams
To other insights

I learn my bounds
Then extend them
Beyond what I’d known
Or even dreamed possible

Architecture by Patrick JenningsJul 28, 20167:00 am

Buddhas

Sometimes
I bring up this image
Just so the line of Buddhas
Can remind me of compassion
And the vibrant colours
Embolden my will for passion

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 15, 20167:00 am

Gods and Bodhisattvas

The love and reverence
Of gods and bodhisattvas
Elevates art and architecture
Creating glorious beauty
Magnificent engineering

I remind myself
To love and revere every being
Every living thing as if
Each were a god or bodhisattva

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 10, 20167:15 am

Outer Wall, Wat Pho, Grand Palace, Bangkok, Thailand

Walls ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #45

Sometimes
I sense a world
Beyond a wall
I cannot see
Cannot breach

Something
Tantalizingly near
Excruciatingly remote
Intangibly real
Exquisitely beautiful

A mote
In the corner of one eye
Visible only
In the periphery
Invisible looking straight on

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 8, 20169:47 am

Spires

I look up
Up up up
Into the clouds
Into the heavens

And I wonder
At how we build so high
When we worship our gods

Or when we think
We have become them

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 6, 20165:16 pm

Patrick Jennings, Twin Falls, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

Learning Humility

I walked through the world
With a mighty swagger
Until humiliation
Taught me humility
Until poverty
Taught me what to value
Until failure
Taught me grace

Now I walk with a gentle deference
Listen, when I might have spoken
Forgive, when I might have challenged
Let go, when I might have held on