Category: Poetry

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 20, 20176:45 pm

Bicycle Rickshaw Driver, Chandni Chowk (Bazaar), Old Delhi, India

Faces in the Crowd

There is no grander crowd
Than Chandni Bazaar
Expansive
A bazaar of humanity
Vital, vibrant, vivid
Variety and spice

So I set up in the median
Camera in hand
And let the people come
Reveling in
Faces in the crowd

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 19, 20176:30 pm

Bicycle Rickshaw Stand, Outside Lajpat Nagar Metro Station, New Delhi, India

In the Cacophony

The Cacophony
Of motion and sound
Falls away
Deep into the background
As he waits
For the next fare
In a peaceful quiet
Of his own making

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 18, 20176:28 pm

Bicycle Rickshaw Lineup, Lajpat Nagar Metro Station, New Delhi, India

They Wait

They Wait
Because there is only
     Sleep
     And pedaling
     And waiting

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 18, 20175:40 pm

Heavy Rush Hour Traffic, Lajpat Nagar Metro Station, New Delhi, India

Beep Beep!

Beep Beep!
Lajpat Nagar Metro Station
New Delhi, India

Video captured during travels, last night, 2017

Every picture may tell a story, but the story this poem tells is an expression of audio and time, as well. Video required.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 16, 201711:04 am

The Spirit of Haida Gwaii, by Bill Reid, International Terminal, Vancouver International Airport, British Columbia, Canada

The Spirit of Travel

From the very beginning
Life has always been
A journey

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 15, 201712:43 pm

Market Day Donkey Cart Parking, Kuqa, Xinjiang, China

Other ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #72

I seek other
To discover
Self

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 12, 20173:46 pm

Vancouver

It is, after all
Just a small collection of buildings
Snuggled up to a forest
Surrounded by water
In the shadow of mountains

Dominated by nature

Which is, of course
Its greatest appeal

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 11, 201712:36 pm

Children

Aren’t we all
Afterall
The same
All around the world

Until
Somehow
We learn to forget
We’re children

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 10, 20176:21 pm

Triangulated, Alphanumeric Sphere Sculpture, New Westminster Public Library, British Columbia, Canada

Hardened Shell

Cutting through the hardened shell
Of cognitive dissonance
And confirmation bias
Reveals a frightening realm
Of ill-defined objects
And unresolved detail

But better to crawl through
To this wilderness of consciousness
Than remain unconscious
Battering the cage
Of my own ignorance

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 10, 201712:11 pm

Alphanumeric Sphere, New Westminster Public Library, British Columbia, Canada

Angles and Hard Lines

I have made myself
A collection of angles and hard lines
A manifestation of steely pride

Still the shadow of nature
Falls upon me
With her supple forms
Her irregular grace

So I quiet the urge for being
Let her sunshine warm me
And become the bough
Blowing in the wind