Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 22, 20179:58 am

Castle Towers Mountain, From Whistler Mountain, British Columbia, Canada

Emergent

The sky
A ceiling
Rock reaching
Oppressed by ice

Constrained
And confined
Horizon suggests
Warmth and possibility

Shadowed land
Scattered gentle highlights
Promising illumination
Hope prevails

The rock reaches
Resisting burden
Unflagging
Emergent

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 21, 20174:28 pm

Peak to Creek, Whistler Mountain, British Columbia, Canada

Transcending Hardships

I find my way
Through the rockiness
Down the icy steeps
Traversing the flats

Along the way
Seeking the deep powder
The cruisable hard pack
The soft moguls

The challenge
Is not so much the hardships
But remembering
What trandscending
The hardships brings

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 20, 20173:13 pm

Castle Towers Mountain, From Whistler Mountain, British Colubia, Canada

Serenity in Distress

Ripsaw peaks
Sunder ice
This land distressed
And yet at peace
Beguiles spirit
Releases soul
Inner silence
Serenity

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 20, 201712:36 pm

Peak Ascent, The Peak Express, Whistler Mountain, British Columbia, Canada

Ascending to Descend

For some
The mountains
Are there to ascend

For others
The ascent climaxes
With a beginning

Sometimes
The ecstasy
Is in the descent

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 20, 20177:00 am

Symphony

Early season
Symphony of snow
Graceful waltzing arcs
Vigorous staccato bumps
Rhythms and melodies
Of edge and wax

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 19, 201710:14 am

Ascent

What goes up
Gets to come down

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 18, 20174:50 pm

Departed Star, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Illumination

Illumination lingering
Day’s departed sun
Twinkling distant galaxies

Dotted sky
Cloud obscured

Nighttime creatures hurrying
Light beam shoreline racing
Destination seaside stars

Dotted land
Life obscured

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 18, 201711:13 am

Cattails and Colour

Cattails sway
Moved by the breeze
Summer songs
Giving way
To crows and jays
While summer’s creatures
Burrow deep
Or fly away

Soothed
By gentle light
And subtle colour
Fall’s transition
Life retired
The air goes cold
Wafts of change
Await the spring
To be renewed

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 17, 20178:26 pm

Empty Bench

Last of the colour clings
Pool of yellow below
The bench, empty

Walking past
Eyes turned away

She would never sit there again

Not without him

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 17, 20174:13 pm

City on the Bay, Vancouver, From Jericho Beach, British Columbia, Canada

Diminutive ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #118

I like the cities best
When they seem small
Diminutive

     Dwarfed by sky and clouds
     Or in the mountain’s shadow
     Some small dot upon the plain

Not so much larger
Than its inhabitants
Nor any one who on the streets
Looks up at towers looming
Considering what hands have built
In any way diminishes
The smallest human being