Tag: beauty

Architecture by Patrick JenningsAug 27, 20159:50 am

Seeking Dragons

I went out on a photo safari with a buddy of mine, eventually landing at Vancouver’s New Brighton Park, an inner harbour green space surrounded by port facilities, including this sugar off-loading dock.

I was intrigued by the shapes, and the somber mood of the clouds, and by the reflection the unloading facilities cast on Burrard Inlet. I shot off a series of photos, hoping something would work.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 25, 20157:00 am

A geological child

I think of this canyon
As old
Until I reflect
And recall

The sandstone
Began to rise
Some 200 million
Years ago

Leaving the water to carve
An infant, a toddler
The geological child
Of a mother, Earth, 4 billion years old

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 24, 201511:42 pm

Vibrant Color

Vibrant colour
Is nature’s most ecstatic expression
Of beauty

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 24, 20157:00 am

Rocking Time

There are places on this earth
Where time is the answer
To every question

Time, and Nature
In harmony

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 23, 20151:38 pm

Wildfire Haze II

Layer upon layer

Smoke on smoke
Thickens, on the rise

Islands and mountains
Fading, in steps of blues and tourquoise

Landscape by Patrick JenningsAug 23, 20158:00 am

Monolithic Sphinxes

Monolithic sphinxes
Bask in sunset rays
While I bask in the presence
Of geological time

Feeling
very small
and finite

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 22, 20159:54 pm

The Moon Comes Calling

Late afternoon
On a cold, crisp Colorado day
The moon comes calling
Wrapped in azure sky

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 22, 20152:57 pm

A perfect day

A perfect day begins
In the pre-dawn
Anticipating the sun

I rise
Bring my didjeridu
To some beautiful place
And serenade the dawn

And so it begins

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 22, 201510:22 am

Expressing the divine within

The works of women and men
Are seldom so exquisitely beautiful
As when they are motivated by passion
For something greater than themselves

Whether that passion be God
Or Gaia
An ideal
Or a cause
Beauty
Or love

People by Patrick JenningsAug 21, 20157:00 am

Tak on the Andaman Sea

There are some combinations of people, places and experiences permanently etched in my aging memory. For example, the ever-smiling, ever-present, energetic Tak, who I met at a Krabi, Thailand resort. He was an every-thing employee. Concierge, server, maintenance, bell-boy. There seemed hardly an event, a meal, a moment at the collection of bungalows which did not involve his presence.