Tag: desire

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 11, 202110:35 pm

Ice ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #261

His was a visage of ice
Cold, chiseled
A frosty burn to the touch
Which not even the fire
Of his desire
Could melt

It protected him
It destroyed him

It hardened him
It betrayed him

For anyone could see
Just below the surface
The heat his coldness
Would never emit

His was a visage of ice
Cold, chiseled
A frosty burn to the touch
Which not even the fire
Of his desire
Could melt

It protected him
It destroyed him

It hardened him
It betrayed him

For anyone could see
Just below the surface
The heat his coldness
Would never emit

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 21, 201812:04 pm

Beyond the Mountains Blue, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Gondola, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Desire

Where the filtered sun
Casts mountains blue
Across this deepest valley
Beyond a distant shore
The clouds so busy gathering
While here the skies so clear

But there I know she waits for me
Climb down, then sail, then climb again
Enwrapped within her arms
Perhaps by then the rain will come
Reverberant charms upon the tin
In rivulets down window pane
Lay with her in such sweet refrain
Flames crackling in the hearth

I feel the heat
Hot on my flesh
Alas it’s but the sun
It fuels a fire
Within my heart
Upon this rocky bluff

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 17, 20182:24 pm

Queen of the Bazaar, Chandni Chowk market in Old Delhi, New Delhi, India

More Love

Come away with me
I will let you be
Whoever you wish to be

He doesn’t love you
Who would limit you
To who you are now

He does not love you
Who would have you
All to himself

That is not love
But the need of love
As if you are a fetish

Come away with me
And I will let you love
Whomever you want to love

Because I love
That you want
More than just me

It would be enough
To know
You loved yourself best

It would be enough
To know
Who you loved most, next

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 25, 20177:00 am

The Beauty in What Is

I remind myself
Find the beauty in what is
Rather than what I desire
I will always have the beauty of the one
The other is, at best, only fleeting
If it ever comes to exist at all

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 28, 20168:10 am

Mittens and Buttes, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Utah, United States of America

Time & Mastery

Let time
And mastery
Wash away
All that is
Not me

Let diligence
And patience
Bring on
The insightful
Flood

Let my spirit
Rise
From the flat
Featureless plain
That was me

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 12, 20154:18 pm

Red Velvet

When I’m hungry
All I can see is food

Like today, in this dry desert heat
With only the apples from yesterday
A can of baked beans, for a campfire dinner
And tomorrow morning’s apple-cinnamon oatmeal

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 24, 20155:21 pm

Trust, Poster on Corrugated Tin, On location for Fringe, Season 5, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

No calm in her eye

She was like a hurricane
Though no calm in her eye

Instead, a depth
Intensity
Tragedy

A wake of human debris
In her path

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 20, 20157:00 am

Photo Essay: Sanding ~ The Kiss

Through the speaker
The sound of her voice
Entered my heart
With ambrosial grace and presence