Tag: fear

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 5, 202012:25 pm

Worlds I Create

I create these worlds
Of personal sanctuary
A beauty and calm
Cloaking distress and fear
Palaces of chilling warmth
An argument with reality
Which cannot be won

I remind myself
The world of distress and fear
Is also a creation of mine
The cloak only gives it power
The palace of true warmth
Is the light of my own heart
Which cannot be sundered

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 9, 20203:48 pm

Froth and Churn, Seaside Creek Beach, Pacific Coast Highway, Mendocino County, California, United States of America

Froth & Churn

In this froth and churn
Of the day-to-day
Beset by waves
Of passion and fear
Love and anger
Confusion and unshakable certainty
I become an Island
At the tempest’s centre

Unmoved by the tides
Steadfast in the currents
An oasis of calm in the tumult
The waves break upon me
Then slide back to the ocean
Their energy dissipated
Until the sea itself
Is becalmed

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 26, 20208:10 pm

Tourists, Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes, Death Valley National Park, California, United States of America

Tourists ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #217

Yea, though I walk
Through this valley of death
I will fear no hardship
Among these many tourists with me
While the road and the cafe comfort me
No shadow falls to Earth
But footfalls

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 28, 201911:14 am

Dancing Boy and The Wells, SeaToSky Gondola

As a Child

I danced as a child
I loved as a child
I laughed as a child

Now as an adult
I am dominated by the fear
I learned as a child

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

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 6, 20181:11 pm

Never Be Scared

Irony Tragedy Comedy
Today, this thought frightens me

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 25, 20188:51 am

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

Winnowing

Armies are not raised
From the masses
But rather winnowed
With fear and anger
And the will toward violence
The way rain and runoff
Separates the stones
From the sediment