Tag: depression

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 3, 201910:24 pm

Etched Granite, Athabasca Glacer, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Fences ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #173

Beyond the fence
Which keeps me out
Or holds me in
I’m not sure which

There is a place
I want to be
Or fled in fear
I’m not sure which

Until I breach
And clamber through
Then come to know
Beyond the fence

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 27, 201911:15 pm

fraser river pilings, steveston, british columbia, canada

Vanishing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #172

As the sun
So the pilings
So the day
So my life

In a whir of calm
And failing light
The river
Never stops

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 12, 201911:02 am

Winter Rangeland, Highway 87, Somewhere between WInslow and Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Move along

It’s time to set
The wheels in motion
Time to move along
Not so much
To just be rolling
Much more to have
Intent

No need for
Destination
No need
To have a plan
Not yet

But scan
Horizons
For potential
For places I’d like
To get

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 23, 20185:23 pm

Stillness, Howe Sound, Porteau Cove Provincial Park, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Stillness ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #167

On some unseen horizon
Beyond my peace of mind
Where shadows play
In savage grey
And hope has not yet
Even hope

No flutter on the water
No ripple in the wind
No fish or whale
To breech the sea
No gull on wing
To cry the air alive
No colour falls to eye

In this world
Of nothingness
In stillness
Drifted I

Aboard a ship
No sails were set
Devoid of all intent
My mind awash
In listless thought
No acts of love
From feckless heart

Yet all the while
And deep below
This ship becalmed
My spirit spare
A current
Ran unseen

It swirled
And tossed
It mustered
Forces unbeknown
Which bubbled to the top

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 20, 20187:00 am

Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Plateau

I dig down
Unpack another layer
I dig down
Unpack another layer

Another
Another
Another

How many layers deep?
I see only the next

Unpack another
See another

Unpack
Another

Until I don’t want
To see anymore
Unpack anymore
Dig anymore

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 13, 20182:57 pm

The sky; the sea; the land

The sky
     like a distant hope
The sea
     is my rolling pain
The land
     oh, it anchors soul

And I
     hold the sky
Let the pain
     roll away
Heel to land
     find my soul

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 9, 20182:14 pm

Himalayan Foothills Sunrise VIII, Kunjapuri Devi Temple, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Steps ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #165

Sometimes the light
     Seems very far
And the way
     So dark and perilous
And the path
     Occluded mystery

I remind myself
     Just take a step
I remember
     Where every journey begins
I find my courage
     In the many paths already taken

I’ve held the light
     before
I’ve made my way
     before
I’ve found the path
     before

I will hold the light
again

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 4, 201811:40 pm

Crescent Sliver, Bowen Island, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Sliver of Light

A sliver of a whole
Adrift in a vast duskiness
Far removed
From this gentle Earth

Yes

I know something about you
Moon

But soon enough
The stars, and the Milky Way

So I want to thank you now
Moon

For the reminder to come
That I need not linger
In the dusk

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 5, 20189:54 pm

Island of the Tides

The tide
High
And I
Am an Island

Isolated
And alone

But tides turn
And so do I

So soon
The sea
Reveals
The sand

And I
Am one
With the
World

Again

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 20, 20188:37 pm

Bentonite, Badlands, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Hide

This flowing earth
Which rain does melt
And sun does bake
To make a hide
A flesh so tough
Naught but steel
Can break its skin

And like the earth
I’m toughening
Impervious
To love’s torment
I keep it out
Pretense: content

But even steel
Can’t cleave my soul
And never could
Through toughest hide
I feel my heart

So soon enough
I’ll find my way
To safety’s arms
Then shed this skin
To let you in