Category: People

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 30, 20198:50 pm

Amigos Mundos

In the everyday
It’s the moments spent
With the ones we love
Which make our hearts lighter
The moments better
The living sweeter

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 29, 201911:32 pm

Gravity

I see you
Seeing me
As she sees me
And he sees someone
No one else sees

And I wonder
What you wonder
About what I wonder
While he wonders
About whom I wonder

All this seeing
And not seeing
All this wondering
About wondering
It all turns
Upon its tail

While all along
The water falls
With a noisy whoosh
The flow always down
Gravity draws all to Earth
Still we are always free
In our myriad ways
To see what we will see
All the while wondering
Just what is up

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 22, 201911:59 am

Friends and Phones and Photos, Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Moments Worth Collecting

Friends and phones and photos
The sharp attack
Of pigeon feathers fluttering

At the park
On a sunny Sunday

In a timeless observance
Of time’s frivolous expense

Small moments accumulate
In a life worth living

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 21, 201911:33 am

Tapas Bar, La Rambla, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Layers of Existence

We live
Within a tapestry
Of universes

Intertwined
Overlapped
Layer upon layer
Of existence

Simultaneous
Discrete

Yet none
Entirely separate
From the others

A community
A reef
Beneath the ripples
Of time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 7, 201911:20 pm

Bird Feeders

Don’t feed the pigeons
Signs said in three languages
But who would stop them?

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 5, 201910:12 pm

Caught, Las Ramblas, Gothic Quarter, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Caught ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #186

I watch the world
From a distance
With a falcon’s eye

Steal moments
From unknown lives
Recorded
For all time
Subjects unaware

But for the occasional eye
Catching me
On my surreptitious perch
At the shutter’s release

Sheepishly
I set the lens aside
And with a nod
Beg forgiveness
For my crime

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 21, 20192:53 pm

dis connect, Barcelona Waterfront, Catalonia, Spain

dis connect ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #184

I look
Neither inward
Nor outward

I connect
Not with being
But a fetish

This realm
Of virtual
Manifestation

And while I look
And while I connect
I am lost

To the moment
To my own presence
To being itself

While all around
Existence dances and plays
Without my participation

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 29, 20194:33 am

Blur

I am but a blur
Passing through the periphery
Of this world of men

Until their eyes
Are trained on me
And I become a creature
Of penetrating interest

A creature
Which is not me
At all

Better the blur

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 28, 201911:14 am

Dancing Boy and The Wells, SeaToSky Gondola

As a Child

I danced as a child
I loved as a child
I laughed as a child

Now as an adult
I am dominated by the fear
I learned as a child

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 20, 20197:15 pm

That Inner Life, Boston Pizza Waitress, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Inner Life of Healing

“You are never really gone,” she tells me
“The times you ‘go away’,” she goes on
“Are like your body, treading water
While you process all you’ve learned”

Now I watch my waitress
And I wonder if she is also processing
The traumas of a dimly remembered past
While serving another table’s drink orders

I wonder if the waitress knows
That in the every day of just going along
Her mind, and her heart, and her spirit
Process the hard work that is so upsetting

“You did not go crazy”
“You did not die”
“You lived and never let go of the light
Even when you were plunged into the darkness”

“And all you learned to cope
With the trauma so many years ago
Keeps you alive now
While you heal”