Tag: consciousness

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 14, 20167:00 am

Humanoid Wire Statue, Britannia Mine Museum, Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

The Wire Man

The Wire Man spoke
Substance, said It
Is a matter
Of subjective opinion

I am naught but wire
Wrapping a steel skeleton
On top of which rests
A pattern of thoughts

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 15, 20167:00 am

Sunrise, Pigeon Point, Near Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Was there life before life?

I love the places which transport me
Back to a time
When all there was
Was rock
And gas
And water

A time before anything lived
And the closest thing to life
Were molecules
Which looked like
The kinda things
You built life with

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 20, 20165:31 pm

Sunrise, Canyonlands National Park, From The Knoll, Moab, Utah, United States of America

Immensity and Nothingness

In a land criss-crossed sparingly by roads
Some asphalt, most gravel
Many traversable only on foot
I seek the high ground
To watch the dawn photons
In their ambient amber
Illuminate the vast expanse of atoms
That are rock and atmosphere and life itself

There are rare moments of connection
When I can “see” all that is
Know that I am some infinitesimal
Physical
Small part of it all

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 17, 201611:17 pm

PCH Sunset, Pacific Coast Highway, Near Santa Cruz, California, United Staes of America

Thin Veneer

I saw the Earth
Photographed from space
And was startled
By the whisper-thin atmosphere

I live on a smooth
Round globe
Of rock and water
With just a thin veneer of gas

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 10, 20167:00 am

Selfie in Chrome Fountain, UBC Botanical Gardens, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Nearly every conscious moment

Nearly every conscious moment
I am puzzling it out
Whether with glass and photons
Keyboards and electrons
Or synapses and neurons

But the wisest insights always come
When I turn away from all of these
And simply listen to the voice within
Which resonates best with my body

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 8, 20164:32 pm

Nightfall, Devil's Marbles, Northern Territory, Australia

Violet Night

When night falls
And the first stars
Begin to twinkle
In the darkening sky

I am reminded
Earth is a very small place
And I
I am a very small man

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 22, 20167:00 am

Rocky Shoreline, Pacific Coast Highway, Northern California, United States of America

In a time before…

In a time before consciousness
When there was only
Physics and chemistry
When the Earth was only
Atmosphere and rock and ocean

There was the great sea of hope
Dashing upon the rocks
Settling in little pools
Where intrepid molecules linked
Carbon to carbon
With oxygen and hydrogen

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 29, 20157:00 am

Pacific Coast Highway, Near Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

An infinite jest

Sometimes life seems an infinite jest

How crazy it is
This point of consciousness
Travelling through space and time
On a ship of meat and bone

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 3, 20151:15 pm

Walls and Boundaries

We think we build walls
Because we are human
But all living things
Build walls

And so we believe ourselves conscious
When every pattern we create
Has already been created
In our unconscious

I think I erect boundaries
To protect myself from what’s not me
But my boundaries
Enclose me

And so I define myself
Not by what is me
But by what is not me
Leaving no other possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 7, 20157:00 am

Openings in the brick wall of consciousness…

I seek the openings
In the brick wall of my consciousness

I am not alone on this journey
Many seek the limitations of their world view