Tag: city life

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 5, 20209:25 pm

Morning Fog, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California, United States of America

The Fog

In the morning, the fog
Commuters fill the lanes
On their way into the city
They cannot see
But know too well

It’s there
In the haze
Diminutive towers
Shadows beneath a piercing sun

As they are shadows
Piercing the shroud
Beneath a sky of mottled blue

In the evening rush there will be no misty cover
Crystalline clear; hard-edged architecture

Though the fog lays still upon commuters

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 26, 20192:00 pm

Night Owls, Bar Mendizabal, Gothic Quarter, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain copy

Quiet ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #189

In the small hours of the night
Somewhere between the last “sweet dreams”
And the alarm clock’s insistent chatter
I like to go out into the city

These quiet hours
In the quiet streets
Shared by a few other strays

When being alone in my own skin
Offers a kind of camaraderie with other lone souls

Being alone in their own skin

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 1, 201812:04 am

Bread

The city boy
Looks at the bread on his table
And remembers the prairie

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 15, 20182:36 pm

Wealth From A Golden Land

A man of the city
Standing
In an open land
Amber and azure
Wheat waist high
Scattered clouds
Dot the sky

And I wonder
That I have never stood
In a field of grain
Ripened
Ready for harvest

This golden crop
The wealth which builds cities
Known to urbanites like me
Only as bread
Or an image on a cereal box

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 4, 201710:12 am

Gridlock, Chandni Chowk Market, Old Delhi district, New Delhi, India

The Wash Beneath the Detailed Lines

I close my eyes
Imagining
A downtown core
And city lights

Cabs stacked up
End to end
Filled with fares
Or seeking them

Crowded shops
Pedestrians
Littered streets
Swept clean by morn’

So full of life
Activity
This crowded block
Where could it be

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 20, 20176:45 pm

Bicycle Rickshaw Driver, Chandni Chowk (Bazaar), Old Delhi, India

Faces in the Crowd

There is no grander crowd
Than Chandni Bazaar
Expansive
A bazaar of humanity
Vital, vibrant, vivid
Variety and spice

So I set up in the median
Camera in hand
And let the people come
Reveling in
Faces in the crowd

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 12, 20166:56 pm

Vancouver Skyline, Across Burrard Inlet, From Lonsdale Quay, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Terminal City

It is my city
Across the inlet
Vibrant and beautiful
Mundane and passionless
A sometimes sleepy little town
On the edge of it all
Terminal city

But from here
Across the inlet
It resembles only
A small forest of brick and steel
Concrete and glass
Its denizens
Too small to register

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 16, 20161:03 pm

Idyllic

Sometimes

I wonder why I live in the city
With its noise
Both visual and aural
With its go-go-go
And its stresses
Its meanness
And petty heartbreaks

I wonder this
Whenever I enter the idyllic
A place of peace
Where time is kept
By the movement of the sun
The seasons
Where change is driven
By the needs of nature
Rather than the pace
Of technology
Of politics
Of corporate commerce

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 9, 20161:55 pm

Parallel Worlds

Travelling
I began to believe
In parallel worlds

Never did I suspect
So many realities
Could coexist

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 26, 201510:39 pm

City of Ghosts

I came to the city
Seeking
Vibrance
Colour
Culture
Excitement

But I found instead
A monochromatic panoply
Of materialistic
Greed
Selfishness
Dishonour

Tag: city life

The Fog

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Quiet ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #189

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Bread

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Wealth From A Golden Land

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Terminal City

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