Tag: depression

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 5, 202010:38 am

Narrow Passage

Narrow passage
Some small hopeful light beyond
Fades on toward the night

Though wide the sea
Destination obscured
Departure long overdue
From specious sanctuary

Where murk grows ever deeper
Even as hopeful light diminishes
Beyond the narrow passage

Start the engine
Provisioned stores and buttressed heart
Set rudder’s course through narrow passage
Bound for hopeful light beyond

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 23, 20209:10 pm

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain

Mass ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #221

Heavier even than Earth
Yet I soar
A majestic dirigible

Laden with history
And regrets
Lofted by hope
And purpose
Levied by love
And compassion

Most days I carry the weight
Lightly, aloft
Some days I cannot leave the berth
Tethered, grounded

So I touch the Earth
Am grateful for its stability
That I always have a place to land
Rest, and free myself of burdens

Then breathe deeply
Filled and empty
I take to the skies again

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 30, 20195:35 pm

The Road Below, Father Crowley Overlook, Panamint Valley, Death Valley National Park, California, United States of America

Extremes of a Year’s Journeys

The road leads down
A scabrous red cut
Into a valley of death

The azure sky
Suspended upon its downy bed
Of purest white

Extremes of a year’s journeys
Found in a single switchback descent
Just ahead of a desert sunset

Somehow, I find
All of it
Beautiful

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 29, 20192:56 pm

Day for Night, Topaz Lake, US HWY 395, Nevada-California, United States of America

Illusions ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #213

Sometimes the darkness
Is less a lack of light
Than a quality of seeing

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 11, 201911:42 pm

Depths, Hotel Continental, Tangier, Morocco

Depth ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #206

I leave the depths unplumbed
Fearful of its denizens
Unaware
All my fears
I carry on my shoulders
A smothering weight

Take a breath, my son
Take a breath
Sit with the present

What you fear
Is already past
Or has not come

That is all your dour spelunking
Will ever find
So long as you believe
The depths are darkness

Be not your mind
But mindful
Open your heart
For in its depths
Is always light

I leave the depths unplumbed
Take a breath
Quiet my mind
And from the depths rises
The light that is love

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 3, 201911:00 pm

Cracks, Linda Vista Motel, Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Cracks ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #205

I only noticed the cracks in my armour
As the blow came down

Beaten

Vulnerable

I rose, vowing not to be struck again
Opting for the only defense remaining

Offense

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 29, 20197:00 am

Valley of Lassitude

From the valley floor
Yearn for the peaks
And high mountain passes

Though the paths I see
Attain neither peak nor pass

Trapped in this valley of lassitude

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 27, 20198:37 pm

Joyful Blues

I enter a world
Of delicious azures
Delightful turquoise
And jolly royals

Which gets me
To wondering
How is it thought so awful
To get the blues

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 15, 20198:46 am

Blues Transformed

In spring
When browns and ice
Of winter’s deathly sleep
Recede

Life renews
Thus even deepest blues
Transform

Become such vibrant hues
Reborn

As hope to those awakening

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 13, 20199:10 pm

Bridges

Across the impassable forbidding
I open myself wide
To possibility
Begin to see the bridges
With my heart
With my spirit