Category: Detail

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 20, 20188:37 pm

Bentonite, Badlands, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Hide

This flowing earth
Which rain does melt
And sun does bake
To make a hide
A flesh so tough
Naught but steel
Can break its skin

And like the earth
I’m toughening
Impervious
To love’s torment
I keep it out
Pretense: content

But even steel
Can’t cleave my soul
And never could
Through toughest hide
I feel my heart

So soon enough
I’ll find my way
To safety’s arms
Then shed this skin
To let you in

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

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 JenningsJul 31, 20187:00 am

Some Mad Portal

No matter how dark the path
No matter how obscured
How many obstacles

Some mad portal
Always seems to appear
And I find my way

My failures seem always
To be failures of perseverance
When I turn away from the path

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 1, 201811:14 pm

Just a Hint of Blue, Clouds and Sky, Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada

Clouds ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #146

In the brooding atmosphere
Of patterns woefully disturbed
I seek glimmers of possibility
I optimistically call

Hope

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 26, 201810:54 pm

Alpine Daisy Aster Close, Buller Mountain, Spray Valley Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada

Unbroken

In the shadows
On the periphery
Core hidden away

I observe the violence
The hurt
The suffering

Detached
Feeling nothing

To feel would be
To shatter

So strong because

So fragile

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 6, 20181:11 pm

Never Be Scared

Irony Tragedy Comedy
Today, this thought frightens me

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 3, 20182:32 pm

Jessie, Bon's Off Broadway, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Standout ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #142

She struggled a little
Sometimes
To be noticed

To stand out
From the cacophony
Of life around her

But she knew
Who she was
And what she could do

And if others
Couldn’t see her
That was their problem

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 22, 20182:03 pm

Snow Man, Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

Slumber ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #136

As the snow fell, he slept
And it became
The slumber of aeons

His awakening would be
Celebrated around the world

Though his eyes never opened again

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 20187:00 am

Wake

Always looking forward
I move through the world
Oblivious to the wake
Left in my path
Until I look back
Into the shadowy past
And see the ripples
Of my existence
Disturb the worlds of others