Tag: British Columbia

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 9, 20189:01 pm

Coast Mountains Wildfires, British Columbia, Canada

Fire ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #152

I cannot see the fire
Still, the sky betrays its presence
As yet the flames present no danger
Though the possibility be mentioned

So am I reminded
A threat may seem remote
Or weak in its intention

But a threat it is
Toxic in its notion

I do well to heed an atmosphere in tension

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 8, 20184:16 pm

where there is fire, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Where There’s Fire

Sinewy sifting
Suffusing valleys
Smoke expanding
Soft stifling blanket
Seeking prairies
Eastward

Olympus OM-2 by Patrick JenningsAug 14, 20189:30 am

Harmony in Word and Form

I apologize, everyone, for being AWOL these past few weeks, and for not posting Pic and a Word Challenges. But I do have some exciting news.

All of my creative energy has been directed toward completing preparations to hang a gallery exhibit featuring photographs, stories and poems selected from Pix to Words. Very exciting! And a much larger task than I allowed myself to believe.

Lots of new stuff coming as a result. When things calm down after the opening (perhaps a bit during … stay tuned to the Facebook Pix to Words page if I can manage some live feed from the reception.)

Pic and a Word should return August 26th, the day after the Opening Reception.

Thanks for your patience!

And wish me luck. =)

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 29, 20186:22 am

Time

I feel time
Wending
Up my spine
Stealing my vigour
Taking my mind

But my heart
Remains strong
My spirit
Undiminished

So I
Unrelenting
Resist time

Live today
Work toward

Tomorrow

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 22, 201811:44 am

Epic ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #149

Even on the gloomiest days
The world can seem
Simply epic

If I choose to look for it

And so can I

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 13, 201812:03 am

Serrated Edge

I walk along serrated edge
Just beyond the tumult’s grasp
Not retreating, no
Nor taking up the task
Of hushing life’s cruel whispers
Caught between my courage
And despair
A darkness near enveloping

So stop
Take stock
Find firm footing
And there turn
Full face
Into all that comes
Lick the salt
Upon my lips
And savour
All strange beauty
In the bitterness

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 5, 20181:08 pm

Love in Silhouette, Amphitrite Point, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Neither Princess nor Prince… but, Love

If this were the end of the world
I would still have to sail
Beyond the horizon
To be worthy of your love

She said

He laughed
Then leaned down to kiss her

Stern, she held him off

I’m not worthy yet

But couldn’t hold the moment
As he searched her eyes

She laughed
Pulled him to her
And kissed him

Hard

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 21, 201812:04 pm

Beyond the Mountains Blue, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Gondola, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Desire

Where the filtered sun
Casts mountains blue
Across this deepest valley
Beyond a distant shore
The clouds so busy gathering
While here the skies so clear

But there I know she waits for me
Climb down, then sail, then climb again
Enwrapped within her arms
Perhaps by then the rain will come
Reverberant charms upon the tin
In rivulets down window pane
Lay with her in such sweet refrain
Flames crackling in the hearth

I feel the heat
Hot on my flesh
Alas it’s but the sun
It fuels a fire
Within my heart
Upon this rocky bluff

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 20, 20183:24 pm

Sun Burst, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Gondola, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

After the Oil Boom

Well I dreamed I saw the clouds
And the heat waves coming.
Wretched mad man on my mind
When the sun burst through the skies.
There was my heart there singin’ in the light
But I felt like I could cry.
Look at mother nature on the run
In the twenty seventeen.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 19, 20182:53 pm

Dramatic

Sometimes the drama seduces me
Saturated intensity
Overwrought meaning
There’s a beauty in the extreme
Which satisfies my lust
For something bigger than myself
But leaves me spent
Exhausted
Weakened