Tag: death

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 26, 20162:40 pm

Foggy day, Canon Beach, Oregon, United States

Shipwrecked

Like shipwrecked sailors
Striving for the beach
Bodies too heavy
For the surface
Only the force of will
Keeping them afloat

The will to live
Or the will to not die
Courage or fear
(I’m unsure which)
Drives them to the beach
Lungs filling with salt water
Muscles spent
Energy exhausted

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 11, 20167:00 am

Deep Cove, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

To be Love

There was something
In the forest
So bright
Daylight
Seemed like night

White hot
Without heat
And it purred
The way
A dragster purrs
Waiting
For the glove
To drop

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 28, 20165:03 pm

Fitzsimmons Valley, Peak 2 Peak Gondola, Whistler/Blackcomb, British Columbia, Canada

Absent Friends

Floating on a cloud
Beneath the floating clouds
Mountains rising through
From the valley up to you

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 20, 20167:44 am

Stupa Base with Elephants, Sukhothai, Ancient Capitol of Thailand

Memory ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #29

Will you still remember me
From this time allotted me
Once death steals the life from me
So all that’s left is what we see

Will it be a photograph
In your mind, an epitaph
Or the sound of my lost laugh

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 22, 201611:17 pm

Pacific Coast Highway, Northern California, United States of America

Passings

I do not mourn
The passing of the sun
Because it is beautiful
And I know it will return

It is no different
With the cycle of life
And death
And rebirth

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 18, 20167:26 pm

Caerphilly Castle, Caerphilly, Wales, United Kingdom

A castle shrouded in grey

I have these dreams
Dim and dark
Or are they memories?

Of a battle
And a castle
Shrouded in grey

But
For fires
Raging

And my loved one
There
Life threatened

Monuments by Patrick JenningsJan 5, 20167:00 am

But the energy that is me will not be lost

~ Dr. Peter

Vancouver Aids Memorial
Sunset Beach
Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada, 2013

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 2, 201610:56 am

Dead bush and buttes, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, United States of America

Personal Armageddon

Nothing affects our perception of living
Quite so deeply as the death
Of someone who became
An intricate part of our being

Insights and memories and loved ones come
But cannot fill the emptiness
A loss of self
Nearly as profound
As the loss of another

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 31, 201510:47 am

Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah, United States of America

Arid

When the air extracts the moisture
From my sinuses
From my mouth
From my lungs

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 14, 20155:31 pm

In the heat

Like a weight
Upon my skull
The sun bears down
As heat drifts up
From dusty ground

I wonder
At the tenacity
Of living things
And marvel at the beauty
Death sometimes brings