Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 13, 20162:22 am

Lichen on Granite, Hope Slide, Nicolum Valley, Cascade Mountains, Crowsnest Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Making America Hate (Again)

This broken web
This strife
This hurtful anger
Which raises some
By lowering many

This fear
This anguish
This mounting dread
That things will never be
As things never were
Except in the cheap dream
Sold to those
Who want more
Than they’ve
Ever
Given

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 12, 20165:42 pm

Sudden Redirection

The road may go
Forever, on and on
But, sometimes
I really need to be
Paying attention
If I want to stay on it

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 12, 20167:30 am

Lichen on Red Patina Granite, Hope Slide, Nicolum Valley, Cascade Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

Liquid Rage

Once she finally saw through
The gaslighting
The manipulations

Once she saw
The abuse
In the abuser

The anger rose
Fire in her veins
Pooled, glowing
As if lava flowed
Like liquid rage
Just below
The surface
Of her flesh

Ricoh RF 500 by Patrick JenningsOct 12, 20167:00 am

Aboriginal Rock Painting, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia

Stories from another time

These stories
From another time
As if they’re mine
They speak to me

A hunter seeking
Sustenance
What simpler story
Can there be

Like me, he loved
And sometimes hated
Like me, he laughed
Despaired, felt fated

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 11, 20167:00 am

Lichen and Granite, Hope Slide, Nicolum Valley, Cascade Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

The Golden Heart

There is a golden heart
At the centre of my everything
Though oft obscured
Sometimes forgotten

I call for it
In times of need
Or if too dark
It calls on me

It guides me true
Though rarely easy
But I know my path
When e’er I follow

My golden heart

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 10, 201610:14 am

The Mereenie Loop, Grassland, Near Gosse Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia

The Singing Land

In this land
Of endless grass
And rolling hills
With scattered trees
And clinging brush

We roll on through
With singing tires
On bitumen
Both dreaming of
This singing land

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 9, 201611:47 am

The Nirvan of Shakyamuni Buddha, Giant Buddha Temple, Zhangye, Gansu Province, China

Healing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #58

0n my life’s journey
Science and logic and reason
Taught me all the many ways
I was wounded and broken

But it was not until
I met the Buddha on the road
That I began to heal

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 8, 201610:39 am

Concrete Bas Relief Sculpture, Gabriola Mansion, West End, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

She Looked Away

She looked away
And I knew
There would never be
Love in her eyes
If she looked at me again

No trust
No love

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 8, 201610:01 am

A-maze-ing Laughter Sculpture by Yue Minjun, Morton Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,

Ending the Bad Days

Sometimes
The end of a bad day
Begins with a smile

Wry or pained, OK
Irony works
It can lead to a chuckle

In a chuckle
There is often a laugh
And in a laugh, sometimes a guffaw

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 7, 20165:14 pm

Porteau Cove Provincial Park, Sea to Sky Highway, Howe Sound, British Columbia,Canada

Dive Markers

They dive below
A place called
Sea to Sky
Explore a world
Few eyes will see
Hidden
Underneath
A land of
10,000 photographs