Category: Poetry

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 20, 20187:00 am

Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Plateau

I dig down
Unpack another layer
I dig down
Unpack another layer

Another
Another
Another

How many layers deep?
I see only the next

Unpack another
See another

Unpack
Another

Until I don’t want
To see anymore
Unpack anymore
Dig anymore

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 18, 20184:57 pm

Another Roadside Attraction, Route 66, Mojave Desert, California, United States of America

Inexorable Intent

Necessity creates
Necessity destroys

Intentional purpose
Inexorable decay

Dynamic tension
Eternally entwined

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 17, 201810:47 pm

Valley Glow

In light too slight
For human eye
I setup lens
With hope intent
Rack focus to eternity

Allow the night
To enter frame
Count out seconds
Three by ten
Capturing
These timely glows

One from headlight’s driven thrust
Unfurls along the river’s edge
Another rises up
To meet the clouds
Escape from streets
Illuminate

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 16, 201812:25 pm

Vibrant Greys, Britannia Beach, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Texture ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #166

All the many greys
Timbres in a spectrum visual

Monochromatic textures
In untouchable dimensions

Which I nonetheless
Touch

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 14, 20184:10 pm

Reign of Tears

Tears reign
Glittering
From the cheeks
Of multitudes

Driven to despair
By the shepherds
Of fear

Reeking of the violence
Wrought by anger

And the platitudes of righteousness

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 13, 20182:57 pm

The sky; the sea; the land

The sky
     like a distant hope
The sea
     is my rolling pain
The land
     oh, it anchors soul

And I
     hold the sky
Let the pain
     roll away
Heel to land
     find my soul

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 12, 201811:05 pm

Peeling

I study the frame
Seek the beauty
In the broken
The decrepit
And ugly

I find it
Almost always

A lesson as valuable
For the photographer
As for the pilgrim

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 JenningsDec 10, 20182:48 pm

The Wind, Point Reyes National Seashore, California, United States of America

Steady in the Wind

I recall the wind
Insistent
Pummeling
Leaning into it
Just to stand upright

I recall the sun
Hard
And hot
Burning through
The cold air coursing

I recall the sea
Singing
Its white noise crescendo
The roar
Of a planet alive

I recall this moment
Blissfully
Unattached
Firmly rooted to ground
In the grip of experience

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 9, 20182:14 pm

Himalayan Foothills Sunrise VIII, Kunjapuri Devi Temple, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Steps ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #165

Sometimes the light
     Seems very far
And the way
     So dark and perilous
And the path
     Occluded mystery

I remind myself
     Just take a step
I remember
     Where every journey begins
I find my courage
     In the many paths already taken

I’ve held the light
     before
I’ve made my way
     before
I’ve found the path
     before

I will hold the light
again