Category: Landscape

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 1, 20196:00 am

A New Light, Kunjapuri Devi Temple, Himalaya Foothills, Near Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Dawn comes

The dawn came
Though the clouds were thick
And not much light
With little hint of the sun

But the long night had broken
People woke from deep slumber
Able to find their way
Even before the morning fog cleared

The darkness
Became day
The grimness
Became hope

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 31, 20187:24 pm

Smoked In Sunset, Transcanada Highway, Approaching Golden, British Columbia, Canada

Reset: Next!

The year
Grew darker
Every day

Grim hope
Bleak finale

Reset: next!

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 30, 20181:26 pm

Athabasca Bridge, Athabasca River, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Bridges ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #168

We build a bridge
To cross the gap
Or tear it down
No going back

Below the deck
A roiling rift
Divides our world
Apart, we drift

But let us take
A moment, slow
To contemplate
Terrain below

I’m sure we’ll find
On valley floor
Our common ground
Then peace restored

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 30, 20189:34 am

Chasm

Roar of the river
My own deafening fury
Churning water cuts a chasm
Seething anger rends my spirit

Standing on the ledge
Letting rage flow away
Wounds upon my soul
Close and begin to heal

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 29, 201811:31 am

Into the Chasm, Athabasca Falls, Athabasca River, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Power

I stand beside the chasm’s tumult
Powerless to end the flood
Or even mitigate the flow

Spectator at the edge
Close enough to feel the spray

Of power’s fearsome rush

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 28, 201810:23 am

Blackened Earth, Highway G215, Nearing Liuyuanzhen, Gansu Province, China

Rolling through the Ebony

Rolling through
A land of crushed ebony
Tarry asphalt dividing
The slender white lane markers
And scrubby tufts of amber

I scramble up an ebony mound
To find a landscape of ebony mounds
Growing to distant mountains
All of the same ebony skin

“At least,” I think, out loud
Into the air so dry
It swallows up the words
Right off my tongue
“the falling sun seems less
Like a fire
On a cast-iron skillet.”

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 27, 201812:31 pm

Glory

Glory morning light
Painted on expansive sky
Darkness climb refrain

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 25, 201812:14 pm

Joy and Giving, Fraser River Valley, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

For All I Have and All that’s Yet to Come

On this day
Of joy and giving
Of gifts received
Of blessings offered
I am most grateful

For all I have
For all that’s yet to come
For all the possibility
Which I can not yet see

And most of all
For the love I give
And am given freely

The love pervading all
On this and every day

The grace we share through love

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 24, 20182:28 pm

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

Grateful

Some moments seem forged
As a reminder to be
Grateful for it all

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 23, 20185:23 pm

Stillness, Howe Sound, Porteau Cove Provincial Park, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Stillness ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #167

On some unseen horizon
Beyond my peace of mind
Where shadows play
In savage grey
And hope has not yet
Even hope

No flutter on the water
No ripple in the wind
No fish or whale
To breech the sea
No gull on wing
To cry the air alive
No colour falls to eye

In this world
Of nothingness
In stillness
Drifted I

Aboard a ship
No sails were set
Devoid of all intent
My mind awash
In listless thought
No acts of love
From feckless heart

Yet all the while
And deep below
This ship becalmed
My spirit spare
A current
Ran unseen

It swirled
And tossed
It mustered
Forces unbeknown
Which bubbled to the top