Search Results for: tofino

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 21, 201811:15 am

Three Figures, Frank Island, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Silhouette ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #123

Three figures teeter on distant rock
Silent silhouettes
Animate without the subtlety of gesture
Barely beings
Tottering along
A knife’s edge horizon

Three lives there
Faceless beneath the clouds
Unknown
Unknowable
But for outlines
Against the sky

One drops off the world
Lost forever
To anonymity
But for the unnamed character
Forming in the theatre
Of my mind

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 5, 201810:20 pm

Lennard Island Lighthouse, from Frank Island, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, British Columbia, Canada

Beacon

Some small beacon
On the shore
It calls to me
It guides me home

Cuts through the gloom
Lights up the night
Love’s the call
Which sets me right

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 16, 20185:21 pm

Endless Breakers

The wind licks spray
From endless breakers
Entering the bay

The clouds
A battery of waves
Roll across the sky

I lose myself
In the rumbling hiss
Of wind and white water

Taste the salty air
On my lips
Breathing deeply

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 15, 20187:00 am

Vibrance in the Sky, Frank Island and Lennard Island Lighthouse, Chesterman Beach, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Presence

As evening comes
Even as the land goes dark and grey

An added vibrance
To the sky

Reminds me
Of your presence

The days a little brighter
The nights a little lighter

My life a little better

All for reasons
I cannot comprehend

No simple explanation
But a simple truth

My life a little better

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 14, 201811:15 am

Weathered, Frank Island, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Weather ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #122

Broken sleek
The hardened shore
In answer to
The winter storms

Here life conforms
To wind and sea
Which cleaves the stone
With crushing wave

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 24, 20183:39 pm

Chesterman

The beach
Sunshine and sand
Wind and waves
Blankets and bikinis
Children and sand castles
Umbrellas and Ray Bans

Chesterman
Not quite
Such a beach

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 15, 20182:26 pm

Occluded Valley, Banff National Park, Icefields Parkway, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Occluded ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #135

Oh the grandiosity
Of mountain ranges
Under cloudless skies

Though here demurred
Occluding smoke
Smothers valley’s depth and scale

Still, upon a closer look
The trees, a ridge
A jagged line

And then another
Slight serrated edge
The third and fourth both smoother still

So scale restored
I can imagine depth, at least
As this choking smoke occludes my breath

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 4, 201811:44 pm

Sunset, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Making Waves

The waves crest
Far off the beach
Not with ferocity
But with energy
And intent

They rush onto the long
Shallow slope of sand
Which gradually saps their strength
Reduces their presence

Until they peter out before me
Weakened to ripples
Barely able to disturb the sand

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 12, 20187:00 am

Shaping Clouds

It surprises me
Sometimes
Which words reach
Which words do not
Which pix are loved
Which pix are not

Sometimes
I know
Sometimes not
Which will touch
Which will not

Surprised, too
Often
By how they are read
By what is seen
By others

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 20, 20171:04 pm

Dusk Falls, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

No Safer Place

In the falling dusk
With the tide well out
I feel secure
In the tungsten warmth
Crackling firelight
Plays off the walls
Which shiver and creak
When the storm gusts come

No safer place
Than a chair by the glass
Rain pelting the panes
Droplets running into lines
Refracting dying light
Journal in hand
The lamp set low
Raise my glass of red
To waves rumbling on the sand