Category: Words

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

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 14, 20177:00 am

Angry Clouds, Banff National Park, Trans Canada Highway, Alberta, Canada

Anger Clouds

Anger never served me
But for its reminder
That my thinking was clouded
And truth obscured
By slavery
To emotion

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 12, 20177:00 am

Magic Castle

This golden hour
This magic light
Reminds me of
My brightest days
Times when I
Could do no wrong
Creative might
Insightful mind

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 10, 20173:09 pm

Narrow Corridor, Bow Valley Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Beautiful Corridor

Confined by valleys
Trees and roads
Through narrow corridors
Can I roam
But all so beautiful
I can’t bemoan
The choices few
My pathway home

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 10, 201710:54 am

Ice and Rock, Banff National Park, Trans Canada Highway, Alberta, Canada

Ice ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #104

Like ice
It trailed
From the nape
Of my neck
Down my
Straight hard spine
The chill
In my thoughts
While the truth
Sank in
And the world
Came apart

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 6, 20177:00 am

Making Home

It was a world not my own
With its weak red star
And its amber sky
The always cloud
And the never rain

But we’d brought our seeds
Planted our trees
Spread our grasses
Harvested the carbon
To surface the roads
To refine the fuel
To run our cars

Until
But for a few facts
Of geology
Meteorology
And astronomy
It was a world
Just like home