Tag: existence

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 30, 20256:20 pm

Between the Golden and the Blue, Douglas Family Preserve Santa Barbara California, United States of America

Colours that can Be ~ NaPoWriMo Day 30

What better moment
Can there be
Than when my eyes
Can see
All the many colours
That can be

Perhaps only
That moment
When I can love
All the many colours
That are me

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 29, 20259:38 pm

Backlight, Point Sur State Historic Park, Big Sur, Pacific Coast Highway, California, United States of America

Companions of Existence ~ NaPoWriMo Day 29

This orb
This life giver
This thing of mass
And light
And heat
And meaning
That sets consciousness
Alight

This battery
The necessary and sufficient thing
To create all things

Material
Etherial
Conceptual
Spiritual

Generator of

Possibility
Inevitability

Everything depends
On a lonely star
Circled by rocks and gas and ice
Themselves circled by rocks and gas and ice
Twirling on the outer arm
Of a galaxy of stars and rocks and gas and ice
All made of star stuff

Except consciousness
Which lives in a home
Made of star stuff
But is not
Itself
Star stuff

Instead
Merely a conceit of matter
Believing it is matter
That somehow
Matters

And perhaps it does
Or
Perhaps it does not

But in this moment
I matter
To me
And that is all
That matters

That
And all the other
Matter houses
For consciousness

My companions
Of existence

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 10, 202511:09 am

Isolation, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Islands ~ NaPoWriMo Day 10

There am I
An Island of consciousness
Standing on an Island beach
On a planetary Island in space
Circling a celestial Island in a galaxy
On the outer rim of a galactic Island in an expanding universe
That is an Island in a multi-dimensional array of infinite universes

Singular
Infinitesimal
Inconsequential

But in this moment
I am

I am enough
Necessary and sufficient

For consciousness has no bounds
While it has no explanation
It needs none

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 4, 20248:01 pm

Faces in the Crowd 12, Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi, India

Om Sai Ram

Oh Lord
Universal father and mother
Burn away the illusions of existence

Three friends
Astride two wheels
Alive in a single moment

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 2, 202410:16 am

The Gentle Tenor of Existence

There is a peace here
In this mingling of muslims
And infidels
Inspired I suppose
In equal parts
By awe and reverence
Faith and the appreciation
For beauty

And while nothing at all
About this place
In the heart of Old Delhi
Reminds me of home
The tenor of this moment
The tranquility of it
Is mindful of a Sunday stroll
Along English Bay
On a fine summer’s eve
With fellow revelers
In the ambrosia
Of existence

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 8, 20247:00 am

Existential Parade

This parade of life
This hubbub of trade
Of needs
Of desires
This chaos of order
And community

And here am I
Amid the throng
In the moments between
Want and have
In the choices between
Necessity and pleasure

This is existential quandary
Alone in my thoughts
In a sea of solitary moments
Each a universe
Borne from a solitary mind
Known only to itself

These in parallel all
With the essentials
Of desire
And necessity
A flurry of universes
Sharing a single dimension

While in my universe
The bodies of a thousand strangers
Dance in cadence
With the flow of trade
A performance at once
Exquisitely mundane and beautiful