Category: Landscape

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 9, 20172:35 pm

Feeding Awe, Whistlers Mountain, Jasper Skytram, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Feeding My Awe

I am truly happy
Only when seeking
The wonder of existence
Even the smallest
Only when feeding my awe
In which I become
Infinite

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 8, 201711:47 pm

Whistlers Mountain, Jasper Skytram, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Giants ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #108

In this hard-scrabble place
Where little life lives
I walk amongst the lichen and scrub
Like a giant
On giant’s shoulders
All my world
Its worries and attachments
Lie far, far below

I linger here
With the sun
My fading friend
As the cool night advances
I am clear and light
As the rarefied air

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 4, 20177:00 am

Wilcox Pass Trail, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Beauty is Beauty

I explore
I break trails
Find my way
Through unknown lands
To destinations yet
Undiscovered
Unreconnoitered
Unexpected

This is what I live for
Finding a new path
To a beautiful place
Rarely visited before

But I live too
For the well-worn trail
The short, easy hike
To a well-known vista
Of no small beauty

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 1, 20176:08 pm

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

Tumult ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #107

Like the water
Calm as a lake
With not so much
As a breezy ripple
So am I

Let the world
Fall away
Lose my ground
And a mighty tumult
Become I

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 27, 20177:00 am

Rockies in the Clouds, Rocky Mountains, Trans Canada Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Mystery

Clouded
Occluded
Mysteries
Appeal to me

And I am never sure
Which outcome I prefer
A mystery revealed
Or mystery secure

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 22, 20177:00 am

The Grey Between

In the black that’s without white
Only the grey between
I find my way seeking light
Though nothing bright here can be seen
With no colour
No hint of saturation
Only tone and faintest texture
Detail limited to imagination

I find the beauty
In the lines
The forms
And open space
Which let me roam

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 21, 20177:00 am

Sunburst Above the Smoke, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

The Lowest Road

This road
Between
The peaks
It cleaves
The valley floor
But I
Would climb
Into the sky
If I
Could find
A path
To take me there
But where
No path’s
Been cut
I have not
The will
To blaze
The trail
Up to
The heights
And so am I
Confined
To roam
The lowest road
Below
The sun

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 18, 20177:00 am

Ribbon of Highway, Okanagan Highway 97, From Oyama Lake Road, Lake Country,, British Columbia, Canada

Presence

Sometimes
I like to turn the radio off
Let the silence fall upon the car
Let the experience of driving
Transcend the noise
Otherwise in the background

I hear pavement’s texture
Know the coarse and the smooth
From the form of a wave in my ear
I feel it
Transferred from tires
To frame
To chassis
To the wheel beneath my hands
The pedal and floor beneath my feet
The seat enveloping my body

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 17, 20177:26 pm

White Pyramid & Waterfowl Lakes, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Veil ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #105

Difficult it is
To remember beauty
Especially my own
When the veil of anger
Occludes my vision
Shrouds my being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 15, 20177:00 am

Cacophony

In the cacophonous mingling
Of mountain and sky
My eye finds no place to rest
No one object to hold it

So it is free

To revel in the details
The myriad forms
The endless possibility
Of discovery