Search Results for: sea to sky highway

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 24, 20207:44 am

From Cheakamus to Tantalus, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Before…

Before the sky
The peaks

Before the peaks
The hills

Before the hills
The valley

Before the valley
I must leave

This place of numbing
Before I die

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 12, 202212:33 am

Saris, Chandni Chowk Night Market, New Delhi, India

Spectacle ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #297

I marvel
For a moment
At the saris
Hanging in the shops

A spectacle of

Colour
Texture
Pattern

Each sari unique

Tightly packed
In the confines
Of tiny shops

Not at all unlike
The thrumming humanity
In the narrow streets
Of Chandni Chowk

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 28, 202012:01 am

Tantalus Cloud Race, Tantalus Mountain Range, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Time ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #242

I often wish
That I could perceive time
Like a hummingbird does
Slow the world down
And watch the air ruffle its feathers
On every delicate beat
Hear the swish of its wing
Rather than the hum and blur
Of time compressed beyond imagining

I often wish
That I could perceive time
Like mountains of stone
Or a star
Minutes pass like seconds
Epochs turned as the sun crosses the sky
To watch the birth and death of solar systems
The way in one short life
I’ve seen the comings and goings
Of family and fame

But this is the time I’m given
And but for the tricks
Of cameras and imagination
This is all the time I have
So best to try and wrench from it
Every moment I can experience

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 27, 20208:43 pm

Pastel Twilight

Day passes into pastel twilight
Atmospheric soothing sigh
Let the night come
Sonorous repose
Eyes closed
Sleepy
Sleep

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 4, 20217:00 am

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

Vulnerable ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #284

Some days the world seems
So very small and I feel
So vulnerable

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 18, 20203:40 pm

Heron & Crows Beneath the Layers, Britannia Beach, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Disturbing Beauty

Many layers deep
The serrated edge cuts
Through the camouflage of bullshit

Reveals a jagged truth
Painful and disturbing
Integrity’s challenge

Never are we more beautiful
Than when we conquer
The falsehoods of our fears

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 10, 202011:40 pm

Ebbing Radiance, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, Near Lions Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Radiance ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #244

In the ebbing radiance
Of a world slipping into darkness
The light is most vivid
Capable of magiks
Unknown to daylight

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 23, 20209:25 pm

The Creeping Darkness, Peeling Paint, Britannia Beach, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

In the Hollows

Branches of darkness
Reach out for me
But I resist
If only just

Still…
That is enough
To stave the pain

In this hollow I’ve carved out
From tendrils of deepest sorrow

I find resolve to carry on

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 25, 202111:02 pm

Diminished Light, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada copy

Bright ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #263

Diminished light
Yet through the cloud
She breaks
And scatters rays
Upon the rippling sea
So I may cast
Into the heavens
Wonder at such spectacle
Take the beauty to my heart
Where meets my soul
And damn if such
Is not the better part

Such soothes the grief
Of one life’s sad lament
Whose diminished light
No longer casts
Onto the stilling sea
Sufficient light
To bounce a single ray
Confused and lost
Mind gone astray

Now take another breath
Do I
Remember bounteous light
Which shimmered off
A rampant sea
And know that souls
Are infinite
That one life lived
No matter grand or small
Is but a drop
Where raindrops fall
So many more still yet to come
And this one
Though diminished now
Once was bright as raging sun

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 16, 20201:33 pm

Before the Sun Ever Rose, Britannia Beach, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Out of the Nothingness

Before the sun ever rose
In the time before time
Or consciousness
Or biology

In the infinity of moments passing
Before a moment could be noticed
What choice was there but to be
Though such was not a choice

In the next infinity of moments passing
Before a moment could be valued
What choice was there to be good
What choice was there to be evil

So I wonder if
Somehow
The more we choose to value
The less we choose to be
The more good and evil we create

Out of the nothingness of being
Which preceded time