Category: Poetry

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 3, 20189:04 pm

Kingpin, Daredevil, Marvel Comics, Netflix

I

Sometimes
This body
Like a prison
And I
Caught inside
Ponder on the things
This body has done
Without my approval
Without my conscience

Sometimes
This body
Like a trophy
And I
Caught inside
Ponder on the things
This body has done
Beyond my ability
Beyond my creation

And I
Wonder I
At who am I
Whether this body is I
Or some other I

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 3, 20186:37 am

Writers

We grope around in the darkness
Seeking the light which illumines
The stories waiting for us to tell

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 1, 20187:50 pm

Goosenecks, Harmony in World and Form, Gallery Bistro, Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada

Photography

Click Click Click Click Click Click

As a photographer
I have never been satisfied with

Two dimensions
A single moment in time
Or even reality

I prefer
To create
Rather than
Record

Light is my palette
A digital file my canvas
A computer my brush

And all the world
Is beautiful data

To be transformed into art

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 1, 201812:04 am

Bread

The city boy
Looks at the bread on his table
And remembers the prairie

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 30, 20189:27 pm

Vanishing Point

Once, there were days

Many days
When I had nowhere to go
And all day to get there

Now I seem to be
Everywhere at once
But nowhere at all

All the time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 29, 201810:46 pm

Five Silos

Oh, this sun-burnished anvil of earth
Beneath a steely sky
Five silos, massive
Diminished in a forever landscape
Over which the trundlings of men
And their machinery
Leave ephemeral marks
Lingering only so long
As the labour which creates them

While I am but a moment’s reflection
An existential comma
In an expanse which cares not
That I think
Or that I think that I am

Not that I care
What the expanse thinks
Though I am glad that it is

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 28, 20184:21 pm

Rugged, Near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Rugged ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #159

Sometimes I am unsure
Whether the sea eats into the land
Or the land eats into the sea

No matter
The beauty
Remains the same

In the yin and yang
Of it all
It is all the same

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 27, 20185:17 pm

Eddies

High enough
And wide enough
To witness
The arc of the Earth

Near enough
And still enough
To experience
The arc of the ocean

An eddy of time
Reflected
In the eddies
Of the sea

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 25, 201810:01 am

The Night Comes

As the sky signals
The coming of night
With glorious colours of caution
The night’s beacon
Hunkers down
It’s daylight glimmer
Set to become
A sentry in the darkness

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 20, 20188:37 pm

Bentonite, Badlands, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Hide

This flowing earth
Which rain does melt
And sun does bake
To make a hide
A flesh so tough
Naught but steel
Can break its skin

And like the earth
I’m toughening
Impervious
To love’s torment
I keep it out
Pretense: content

But even steel
Can’t cleave my soul
And never could
Through toughest hide
I feel my heart

So soon enough
I’ll find my way
To safety’s arms
Then shed this skin
To let you in