Tag: British Columbia

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 30, 20185:20 pm

Frank Island Sunset, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Nature’s Afterglow

Is it aftermath
Or afterglow
When the storm is past
And the sun sinks low
Behind scattering clouds
Reflected in calming waves

I suppose
It is a matter of perspective
As most extreme conditions are
So I tend to see the glow

And the storm?
Nature’s petit mort

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 30, 20189:36 am

Lennard Island Lighthouse, From Frank Island, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

One Steady Light

Just one steady light
Piercing the darkness
Can guide me through
The rocky shoals

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 28, 201812:54 pm

Stormtrooper Street Art, Blood Alley, Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lines & Words

I love

how a brush stroke
or a phrase
can create

an icon

how few lines
or words
are required

to tell a story

and how every story
and every icon
means something different

to everyone

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 23, 20188:05 am

Plume, Tatntalus Mountain Range, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Invisible Wind

A cloudless sky
An invisible wind
But for the snow
Dragged over the peaks

A roiling plume

Like my mind
As I’m buffeted
Not so steadfast
As the rocky peaks

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 22, 20189:22 pm

Howe Sound Sunset, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

For Earth Day

When the moon and planets align
In the darkness that is not yet night
I am reminded that this home
This Earth
Is one preciously small orb
In a vastness sporadically dotted
With preciously small orbs
An infinitesimal in the infinite
Just like me
And I rejoice
In just how perfect that is

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 20, 201811:45 am

Vancouver and Harbour, From Woodward's Building, British Columbia, Canada

Builders We

Such prolific builders we
Who raze an endless stand of trees
Erecting concrete towers in their place
With geometric rigour lacking nature’s grace
We sunder her, retrain our eyes to see

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 18, 20187:23 am

Patterns in Steel, Alphanumeric Sphere, New Westminster Public Library, New Westmeinster, British Columbia, ,Canada

Finding the Steel

Beaten
Crushed
Defeated

I find the steel
Within
To go on

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 20187:20 pm

This Little Buoy

This little buoy
Between the rocks
Bobs and clangs
In gentle swells

A narrow draft
‘Tween reef and land
One red one green
The channel marked

At night
Her light
Bright green
Is seen

Green on the port
To find the port
Green to starboard
Then sail the seas

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 20187:00 am

Wake

Always looking forward
I move through the world
Oblivious to the wake
Left in my path
Until I look back
Into the shadowy past
And see the ripples
Of my existence
Disturb the worlds of others

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 12, 20187:08 am

I in the Crowd

I scan the crowd
Everyone so different
Yet all the same

And then there is I
So different still
From all the rest

Or so
I like
To think