Tag: beauty

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 14, 20167:00 am

Armchair of Golden Dreams

Sometimes I just sit back
In my armchair of golden dreams
To take in all the splendour
The view from there is wonderful

To a practitioner of Tendai
Everything is wonderful

~ Saichō
9th Century Japanese Buddhist monk
Founder of Tendai school of Buddhism

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 13, 20167:00 am

Snowfall, The River of Golden Dreams, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

The Fate of Snowflakes

Snowflakes make their way
Down from clouded sky
Carried by the fateful winds
To find a place of rest
Perhaps atop the matted grass
Or come to know the branch and bough
Where they paint such pictures pretty

Others find their way to gentle currents
Return to form from which they spawned
Then seek again the path to sky
Transform, renewed, to lightest flakes
And try once more for beauty’s grace

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 12, 20167:00 am

Winter Dream, River of Golden Dreams, Meadow Park, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Winter Dreaming

Revelling on Golden Dreams
Where languid winter river flows
Beneath soft flakes fluttering
Alighting like sweet Angel’s down
Upon needled bough and barren branch
Or cloak the water where it’s still

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 11, 201611:59 am

Geometry, Morrocan-inspired Lattice Screen Wall and Light

Geometry ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #67

With arc and sphere
With line and square
I fix the world
In sight and mind
The world I build
Becomes this kind

While Nature’s skilled
Geometry
Is rarely square
Organically
Math more complex
So beautifully

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 10, 20167:00 am

Britannia Mine

In the day
This hulking grey
With windows dark
And broken glass

At night transforms
Bathed in warmth
A dinosaur preserve
In translucent amber

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 7, 20167:59 pm

Post-Millenium Psychedelia, The Dandy Warhols, Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2016

The Melody of Philosophy

Music created
The world I live in
A strange place
Of every possibility

Progressive
Political
Psychedelic
Spiritual

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 1, 20167:44 pm

30 Seconds

The light falls fast
While I setup the camera
Darker and darker
As I extend tripod legs

Quick glances to the valley below
Hoping for enough light
To capture the clouds in the valley
To find detail in the trees
And the valley mist

Finally, set up
And capturing frames
When I begin to notice
As one light fails
Another rises

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 29, 20163:27 pm

Fog in the Valley, Cheakamus River Valley, From Tantalus Lookout, Sea to Sky Highway, Near Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Faery Breath

The mist roiled down the valley
Flowing through the trees
Like faery breath
Settling over the village
Whose inhabitants slept
A night of aimless dreams
Then awoke with the terrors
Of the previous days
Quietly rescinded

Gone from memory
As if
They’d never
Happened