Category: Landscape

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 20, 20187:00 am

Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Plateau

I dig down
Unpack another layer
I dig down
Unpack another layer

Another
Another
Another

How many layers deep?
I see only the next

Unpack another
See another

Unpack
Another

Until I don’t want
To see anymore
Unpack anymore
Dig anymore

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 18, 20184:57 pm

Another Roadside Attraction, Route 66, Mojave Desert, California, United States of America

Inexorable Intent

Necessity creates
Necessity destroys

Intentional purpose
Inexorable decay

Dynamic tension
Eternally entwined

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 17, 201810:47 pm

Valley Glow

In light too slight
For human eye
I setup lens
With hope intent
Rack focus to eternity

Allow the night
To enter frame
Count out seconds
Three by ten
Capturing
These timely glows

One from headlight’s driven thrust
Unfurls along the river’s edge
Another rises up
To meet the clouds
Escape from streets
Illuminate

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 16, 201812:25 pm

Vibrant Greys, Britannia Beach, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Texture ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #166

All the many greys
Timbres in a spectrum visual

Monochromatic textures
In untouchable dimensions

Which I nonetheless
Touch

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 13, 20182:57 pm

The sky; the sea; the land

The sky
     like a distant hope
The sea
     is my rolling pain
The land
     oh, it anchors soul

And I
     hold the sky
Let the pain
     roll away
Heel to land
     find my soul

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 11, 20185:20 pm

Shimmer Wings, Fireboat, English Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Butterfly

Shimmer wings filter
Sunset glitter dying day
Butterfly takes flight

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 9, 20182:14 pm

Himalayan Foothills Sunrise VIII, Kunjapuri Devi Temple, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Steps ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #165

Sometimes the light
     Seems very far
And the way
     So dark and perilous
And the path
     Occluded mystery

I remind myself
     Just take a step
I remember
     Where every journey begins
I find my courage
     In the many paths already taken

I’ve held the light
     before
I’ve made my way
     before
I’ve found the path
     before

I will hold the light
again

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 6, 20182:00 pm

Sunset, The Strait of Georgia, BC Ferries, Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada

An Unmoving Frame

I began to notice
With fascination
Placing a moving object
Near the center of the frame
Tended to convince my mind’s eye
The object was no longer moving

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 5, 201810:32 am

Celestial Lullabye, Gibsons, Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada

Earth-song

Clouds pull blankets high
The sun playing peak-a-bye
Earth-song’s lullaby

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 4, 201811:40 pm

Crescent Sliver, Bowen Island, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Sliver of Light

A sliver of a whole
Adrift in a vast duskiness
Far removed
From this gentle Earth

Yes

I know something about you
Moon

But soon enough
The stars, and the Milky Way

So I want to thank you now
Moon

For the reminder to come
That I need not linger
In the dusk