Category: Landscape

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 1, 202410:09 am

Serenity, Maligne Lake, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

The Nature of Serenity

I find serenity in nature
I discover myself in nature’s serenity

Whether paddling across a mountain lake
Ripples and clouds moved by the lightest breeze
A day like a peaceful sigh

Or standing atop an oceanside cliff
Face into the fierce onshore wind
Waves crashing against the rocks below
Rain and spray soaking my clothes

That’s the thing about nature
It has no agenda but to be
To be is a state of impermanence

Whether storm or calm
No matter
These are nought but conscious evaluations
Accompanied by prejudicial metaphors
Nature knows them
As it knows itself
Impermanence
Change

Nature does not accept change
Nature is change

As nature changes
It knows neither content
Nor discontent

I soak myself in nature
To learn its wisdom

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 30, 20247:22 am

Athabasca Falls, Athabasca River, Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Finding Rainbows

As falls the water
So fall I
Into the chasm

The inevitable course
Into the tumult I tumble
Fractured until no more than mist

There in the light discover
The true nature of I
Refracting all hues of possibility

Disassembled I
Finds the path
From broken to whole

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 29, 20247:00 am

Mountain High to City Lights, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, near Lions Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Glow ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #367

River of light
Flows along the shore
Red and white hot

In the sky
An amber sea
Stars washed up on its shore

In my heart
In my spirit
The warm glow
Of love

For all that is
For all who are
For all I am

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 28, 20249:29 pm

Gambier, Bowyer, Bowen and Horseshoe Bay, Howe Sound Sunset, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Earth’s Deep Breath

The sky
Like Earth’s deep breath
After the sun bids adieu

And I
Becalmed on the shore
While the summer breeze
Gently lifts stray thoughts
From my mind

A sigh
Let those thoughts
Become ripples upon the Sound

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 27, 20249:40 pm

Howe Sound Sunset, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Celestial Neighbourhood

In the twilight
With the day gone by
And darkness hovers on the nigh

Celestial neighbours come out to play
Remind us of our community
In this little corner of the galaxy

And though they seem
So very, very far
Not much closer than the nearest star

When sol’s tucked in for the night
Stars and galaxies dot the skies
I see the infinity these comprise

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 26, 20246:56 pm

Yoga on the Beach

Daylight’s final embers
Twenty of us on a small patch of sand
Beside the river Ganga

Body
In harmony
With breath

Breath
In harmony
With spirit

Spirit
In harmony
With all things

Beneath this beautiful sunset
In Rishikesh
Where the river flows

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 18, 20247:00 am

Lessons from the Wind

Wind bends the grasses
Agitates the sea
Riffling waves roll
From water onto land

While I remain unperturbed
Steadfast
Face into the wind
As all around me
Is buffeted

And this
This is how I want to be
In the storm that is life
Where I am disturbed
By all that moves around me
Perturbed by the rushing flow

I take note
Learn the lessons nature offers
Resolve to become

Resolute as the rocky shore
Firm against the crashing waves
Supple as the grasses
Which bend then return to form
Deep as the ocean
Calm beneath its roiling surface

The wind
Whispers in my ear

Learn this
And you will become peace