Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 11, 20198:20 pm

La Solidaritat La Nostra Millor Arma

Resistance no more
This is an image
Of revolution
A call to arms
For the repressed
In Catalonia

An image, too
For us

We have been the prey
Separated from the pack
Divided
Kept down
Exploited
Dominated
Fed upon
By the fat cats

La Solidaritat
La Nostra Millor
Arma

Solidarity
Is our best
Weapon

Run them off
We have the numbers
We have the power

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 9, 20199:04 pm

Motion Blur, Muntaner Station, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

On the Move

Unfocused
Unresolved
Motion blurred

Unsettled
Uncertain
Movement fractured

Undeterred
Unrelenting
Moving forward

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 7, 201911:20 pm

Bird Feeders

Don’t feed the pigeons
Signs said in three languages
But who would stop them?

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 5, 201910:12 pm

Caught, Las Ramblas, Gothic Quarter, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Caught ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #186

I watch the world
From a distance
With a falcon’s eye

Steal moments
From unknown lives
Recorded
For all time
Subjects unaware

But for the occasional eye
Catching me
On my surreptitious perch
At the shutter’s release

Sheepishly
I set the lens aside
And with a nod
Beg forgiveness
For my crime

Fujifilm X-T2 by Patrick JenningsMay 4, 20199:08 pm

Roman Stone Writing, Museum of the History of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Not Written in Stone

The writing on the wall
Is not carved in stone
The world is neither broken
Nor in need of repair

There is no destiny
But the consequences
Of the choices I make

As for the choices
I fail to make

I still have made a choice

This moment
And the next

Are the blank sheets
Upon which events
Are written

Conscious and present
I take the pen in hand
Asleep and absent
The pages are filled nonetheless

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 3, 20197:00 am

Roman Walls, Museum of the History of Barcelona, Gothic Quarter, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Bricks & Mortar

For every wall I have built
For every rampart erected
To protect my being
I have also opened my heart
I have also bared my soul

After so many bricks
And so much mortar
I am beginning to understand
Which is the stronger gesture
Which offers the greatest protection

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 2, 20197:00 am

Columbus

Revered & Reviled
A man of his time
Ahead of his time
Discoverer & Destroyer
Of worlds

A harbinger
Of things to come
Of times extant
Of days which always were
And may always be

Until we find our way
To a better way
Create a better world

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 30, 20199:52 pm

The Light Plays, The Ágora, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain

The Light Plays a Song

The light plays a song
For my heart
While my soul
Dances

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 29, 20199:35 pm

Patterns, Museu de les Ciències, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain

Patterns of Opposites

I try to follow
The myriad lines
Creating the myriad forms
Regular and irregular
Symmetric and asymmetric
A cacophony of harmonies
Patterns within broken patterns
Broken again to form patterns

In them the complexity of life
Perfect imperfection
Destabilized and fortified
A confusion of order
A diffusion of resolution

I breathe in
The beauty of opposites
Comprising the oneness
Of being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 28, 201910:34 pm

Saints and Angels II, Domes, Valencia Cathedral, Spain

Heavens ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #185

I gaze into the metaphor
Heavens above
Ringed by saints
Flanked by angels

Spirit moved
By the artistry
By the grandeur
By the grace

I know there are saints
Not like these saints
I know there are angels
Not like these angels
I know there is god
Not like this god
I know there is heaven
Not like this heaven

Spirit moved
By these metaphors
Manifest

In the people
I have known
In the places
I have been
In the light
I have seen
In the grace
I have experienced
In the beauty
I have created