Category: Landscape

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 9, 20191:17 pm

Alhambra, from the Bell Tower, Granada, Andalucia, Spain

How Far We’ve Yet to Go

In an old place
Beneath a brooding sky
Threatening clouds
Keep their promises

I reflect
On battlements
And palaces

And understand
We’ve come not so far

As we believe

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 27, 20193:44 am

Stratospheric, London to Barcelona, Somewhere over France

Worlds I Can’t Imagine

I see the world
In ways my ancestors
Could not imagine

But I wonder too
At the worlds now gone
I cannot imagine

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 17, 20194:34 pm

Wildfire Haze, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Haze ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #179

Through the haze
Of day I peer

Now what is near
Seems quite clear

But far from here
Is more obscure

Detail lost
Colour sallowed

Though sun breaks through
Its presence mellowed

Yet, still

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 10, 20199:45 pm

For Purple Mountain Majesties, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, United States of America

Sunrise ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #178

I let the day go
Leave the past
In the past

As the harsh light fades
I live in the magic glow
Of this brief moment

Let the darkness come
Like closed eyes
And a deep breath

A new glory follows
A light to be filled
With possible moments

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 3, 201911:23 pm

Seaspan & Tug, Steveston, Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada

Upriver ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #177

Against both tide and current
Headway slow and steady
Though the river hurries by

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 1, 20191:35 pm

Four Peaks, Tonto National Forest, Near Mesa, Arizona, United States of America

Rise

I see the beauty
It’s not so very far
And a road which leads
From shadow to the light
From the broken lands
To where snow-capped pinnacles

Rise

Though I see
Not so very far ahead
I take the road
Into the valley maze
And trust myself
To find the way

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 16, 201911:00 pm

Bent

This world through lens of mind
Is bent
To be a thing my eyes
Can see
Not quite what is
Reality

So bend my mind to fit
The world
Then see only the things
That fit
Ignore the things that don’t
One bit

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 15, 20197:19 am

That River Flows

That river flows

While I
Stand by

Upon the banks
Watch my life
Drift idly by

But why?
Ask I

Just join the flow

The river says

So I
Close eyes

Like the water
Enter life
Become the flow

Then I
Realize

Like the river
Being flows
I the water
Gather all
The river knows

‘Til I
Reside

In moment’s rhyme

The end of time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 13, 20199:10 pm

Bridges

Across the impassable forbidding
I open myself wide
To possibility
Begin to see the bridges
With my heart
With my spirit

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 10, 201911:31 pm

Valley Flow, Maligne Valley, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Valley ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #174

Through the valley
Between the rocky mounts
Where days go by
Too fast to count

Then what remains
But moments lost
In timeless frame

I let them go
And count no more

Just live them all

In endless flow
So none pass by

For none remorse
Nor row against
The river’s course

The ripples
And the rapids play
The challenges
Of every day