Category: Mood

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 22, 20235:57 pm

Howling Horse Hermitage in Grey, Gilmanton Ironworks, New Hampshire, United States of America

Soothing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #342

I find few moments more soothing
Than a cool, grey day
Whose listless breezes stir a gentle rain
Droplets patter pane and sill

And I, warm and dry
With a steaming mug
Turn the pages of a book
Offering scant attention to its contents

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 22, 201810:59 pm

This Cacophony of Being, Britannia Mine, Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

On the Cacophony of Being

This spirit of life

This beauty
This pain
This anguish
This love

This cacophony of being
That is I
That is experience
That is action

Tension of light and dark
Tension of right and wrong
Never grey
Never muted

That mud of fear
That mud of anger
Gripping at my heart
Gripping at my mind

But I will not
Go under
But I will not
Lie down

Or die
In the silence
Of living
Without venture

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 JenningsJul 6, 201810:22 pm

Light and Darkness ~ Shadow, Lattice Wall and Light, Richmond, British Columbia, Canada

The Light Without

In light of day
I find my way
In darkness seek
The light within

The grey between
The black and white
I lose my way
To gloom within

Then light of day
Too dim by far
The dimmest star
The light within

So then seek I
A beacon bright
To light the way
A light without

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 21, 201810:04 pm

Forgotten Library, Britannia Mining Museum, Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

Forsaken Library

It had been a library
Once
I guess it still was
Though
What did that matter

Few
Enough left who could
Read
The irrelevant past
Now

Silly stories of
Love
Self help for plentiful
Times
Dystopian imaginings for a world of

Ease
So it was no wonder salvagers
Found
No value in printed
Words

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 13, 20184:21 pm

Storm Clouds, Rocky Mountains, Trans Canada Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Too Late and Far Too Much

It tastes like despair
The air
Like defeat and despair
The charged atmosphere
Alive after the months
Of dead, dry heat

Thunder rolls
Across the parchment plains

Rain is coming
Too late
And far too much

What little soil remains
After wind storms
And dust clouds
Carried the best of it
Off to the East
Will wash away
Rivulets cutting small canyons
Deep into the earth

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 2, 20188:27 am

Beneath an Unblinking Eye

In the light
I am caught

Ominous
It hangs there
No rotor wash
No engine sound
A not quite motionless
Hover
A spectacular
Unblinking eye
Staring at me

And I
So vulnerable
A thousand yards
Of waist high grass
From cover

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 28, 201811:45 pm

A Path So Well Lit

Sometimes the path
Is so well lit
With little thought
I follow it

And then it ends
So I arrive
At places
Unexpected

Sometimes pretty
Sometimes dour
Sometimes ugly
Sometimes flowered

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 22, 20174:51 pm

The Hollow Man, Britannia Mine, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia

Filling the Hollow Light

I linger in my darkness
Sometimes seeking
Sometimes hiding
No matter

Some dark thing
From deep within
Rises
Opens up inside

Forcing me to choose
Retreat into the hollow light
Stay with the darkness
To learn its nature

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 7, 20179:27 am

Impenetrable Light, Langley, British Columbia, Canada copy

Hate ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #86

I began to realize

If I could learn to love myself
Completely
I would no longer want to hate

That kind of inner light is
Impenetrable
Even to hate’s formidable darkness