Category: Abstract

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 23, 20207:00 am

Ghosts, Time Exposure, Some Random Netflix Show

Nightmares ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #254

Deep in a dream
I see the ghost
Of who I once was
And the ghost
Of who I hoped to be

I awaken
To the phantom
That is who I have become

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 26, 20207:00 am

The Maw, Palau De Les Arts, Ciutat De Les Arts I Les Ciences, Valencia, Spain

Fear ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #250

The maw which devours me
Consumes my will
My strength
Is naught but the workings
Of my fearful mind

I breathe
Speaking the words in my mind
Over the chatter of thoughts

Breathing in
Breathing out

Displacing the chatter
My thinking stills
So that the maw closes
Upon the vacuum
That is the peace
Of a quiet mind

Without fear
To sustain it
The maw dies
Revealed as an illusion
Created by fear

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 25, 20201:04 pm

Arc Tangent, Palau De Les Arts, Ciutat De Les Arts I Les Ciences, Valencia, Spain

Arc Tanget

Tangential touch
Love comes around
Sweeping arcs
Now come to ground
Skyward leaps
There heaven bound

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 13, 202011:10 pm

A Study of Line, Diwan-i-Am, Hall of Audience, Agra Fort, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Line ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #240

Such exquisite line
Forms an art without figure
The face of Islam

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 10, 20203:29 pm

Buttressed, El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain

Death of the Narcissist

He erected a balustrade of excuses and lies
A weak defense eventually overcome
By firing rounds of fact
Between the spindly balusters

The entire structure collapsed
Under the weight of culpability
Leaving him, finally, exposed

Had he any integrity at all
Such a rampart may have protected him

Buttressing his image sealed his doom

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 9, 20203:06 pm

Vanishing Point, Museu de les Ciències Príncep Felip, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain

Blocking Point

I tried to find the words today
But the words would not converge

Themes and thoughts that did emerge
With promise of infinity
Then vanished at a wall

Leaving not a word at all

Instead I wrote this deathly dirge
To writer’s block I fall

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 8, 20202:43 pm

Caged Bird, Spanish Air Force Dassault Mirage III EE, Museu de les Ciències, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain

Freedom ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #236

She told me why the caged bird sings
She told me of the rage
That the pain creates
How it colours everything

I can’t perch where the caged bird sings
But to her fearful trill
Take up harmony
This free bird sings so to keep her wing

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 5, 20207:43 pm

Up or Down, El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain

Being in the Grey

Sometimes I prefer the grey

Shadows can be too dark
Highlights can be too bright

In the grey all is line and texture
I see the form of what is

Without interpreting darkness and light

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 28, 20207:00 am

What Light through Yonder Skyline Breaks, Central Market, Valencia, Catalonia, Spain

Dimming Light

The light which skylight glass admits
Be grey and dour as such the day commits
While just as dim our life in quarantine submits
Then random seem the ones for whom disease remits

Their darkest hour
To bed confined
For none the power
To stall the march of death’s decline

And so alone
Souls pass away
While not a hand
Is offered they
But latex glove
The touch at end of earthly stay

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 26, 20207:00 am

Line and Texture, Palau De Les Arts, Ciutat De Les Arts I Les Ciences, Valencia, Spain

Awed

Awed by the imagination of others
I am inspired to create
Without boundary
Or fear