Category: Poetry

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 29, 20203:05 pm

Patrick, Vagabond, Seman Hotel, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China

Vagabond ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #238

Note:
Rule change this week!
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To move
Through time and space
By act of will

Undeterred and
Undirected by
Duty or responsibility

Led not by
Leash or force
Nor beholden to another’s wish

But to stay
In just one place
So long as restless heart desires this

Then move along
To some place other
There to find what’s there to see

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 27, 20204:57 pm

Linger

Nearly lost
In a palette of greys
The little heron lingers
One-legged in the winter chill
In a meditative peace
I only dream of mastering

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 27, 20202:32 pm

Slate Sea, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Weekends

Sail the slate sea
On friendly breeze
Which powers me

Hold the tiller fast
As grey gulls surf
The unseen wave
Leeward of the mast

And I at peace
In my dead reckoning
Far between the harbours
Of duty and burden
Riding the tide of release

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 25, 20207:00 am

Empty Time and Space, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Unfilled

Time and space
Seem empty
Without your

Presence

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 21, 202010:44 am

Beneath a Virtual Moon, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Androgyny Domine

Under androgynous sky
Sun or moon
Father or mother

The camera never lies
But the photographer
Knows how to fib

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 20, 202011:46 am

Pinnacle Obscura

There is a path
To distant peak
Though peak itself
Remains obscure

And should I find
A mountaintop
Who’s to say
I find the one

Reserved to some
Refused to those
Who’ve never known
The pinnacle

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 19, 20205:07 pm

Grunge

On every beauty find redress
The film of some small discontent
Such that those who can’t possess
May pose desire circumvent

But I this beauty’s grunge perceive
Projection of my ego’s fear
So let such love that cannot be
Reveal my weakness to be clear

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 18, 20203:40 pm

Heron & Crows Beneath the Layers, Britannia Beach, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Disturbing Beauty

Many layers deep
The serrated edge cuts
Through the camouflage of bullshit

Reveals a jagged truth
Painful and disturbing
Integrity’s challenge

Never are we more beautiful
Than when we conquer
The falsehoods of our fears

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 17, 20208:51 am

Winter Crisp, Britannia Beach, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Winter Capture

Wind and whitecaps swish about
Sounds as crisp as winter air
My near frostbitten ears select
Imagine gentle warmth
In sunlight’s amber hue detect

I linger here
Instead the heated hearth of home
Frigid fingers upon my camera work
Until chill moment captured thus
By an eye that cannot shirk

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 16, 20201:33 pm

Before the Sun Ever Rose, Britannia Beach, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Out of the Nothingness

Before the sun ever rose
In the time before time
Or consciousness
Or biology

In the infinity of moments passing
Before a moment could be noticed
What choice was there but to be
Though such was not a choice

In the next infinity of moments passing
Before a moment could be valued
What choice was there to be good
What choice was there to be evil

So I wonder if
Somehow
The more we choose to value
The less we choose to be
The more good and evil we create

Out of the nothingness of being
Which preceded time

Category: Poetry

Vagabond ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #238

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Linger

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Weekends

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Unfilled

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Androgyny Domine

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Grunge

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