Tag: flow

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 27, 20185:02 pm

Dancing with the Darkness

Standing in the light
I see the darkness
The evil from which I emerged
Clearly
For the first time

Just as I cannot know the light
Without darkness
So too I cannot know the darkness
Without light

I thought I knew the darkness well
When I was caught in it
As it touched me
As it coursed through me

I believed the darkness was me

Standing in the light
I sense the true nature of my being
Radiating this warm glow

I have not emerged from the darkness
I have shed it
Like a cloak
Beneath which the light
Has always burned
Will always burn
Has always kept the darkness
In its dark

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 28, 201811:03 pm

Goosenecks State Park, San Juan River, Utah, United States of America

Trust the Flow

I make my way
Down winding path

Though much I seem
To go astray

Just trust the flow
To lead the way

So long as I
Keep steady craft

Row with the main
And level stay

I’ll reach the calm
Upon this raft

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 3, 20177:00 am

Ian and Josephine, beautiful sounds, North Vancouver,

In the flow

Heart, mind, body and soul
Four independent currents

Perhaps enlightenment
is the condition
when all four
flow together as one

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 23, 201712:59 pm

Ganges Current, Laxman Jhula Bridge, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Current ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #97

With
Against
Over
Bypass

All the ways I’ve learned
To make my way in life
Unconsciously, they become habit
Forgetting the current running through it all

I remind myself
Stand on the shore
Breathe in the quiet
Observe the current

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 2, 20177:00 am

Night Market, Chandni Chowk Bazaar, Old Delhi, India

The Roaring White Water of Being

It is a throng
A teeming mass
Rumbling through
A narrow chasm
Of visual and aural
Cacophony

Impossible to gauge
To comprehend
Without standing
In the midst
Feeling the flow
Feeling the insignificance
Of one more being
In this tumultuous rapids
Of being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 12, 20167:00 am

Winter Dream, River of Golden Dreams, Meadow Park, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Winter Dreaming

Revelling on Golden Dreams
Where languid winter river flows
Beneath soft flakes fluttering
Alighting like sweet Angel’s down
Upon needled bough and barren branch
Or cloak the water where it’s still

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 10, 201611:03 am

Cloudy sky, Thompson River Valley, Savona, British Columbia, Canada

Looking back to remain present

Sometimes, I like to look back
At where I’ve been
At how I got here

There’s often a line
A flow
A grace unintended
Unnoticed
Unseen before the backward glance

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 7, 20166:50 am

Mineral Spring, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States of America

Life Springs

I learn to let life flow where it must
Knowing, like water, it can only go
Where the landscape allows it

Water will not run uphill
It will not run fast across a plain
It will not run at all
Where no rain falls

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 14, 20164:32 pm

The Immortal Jellyfish, North Shore Studios, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Transparent ~ Luminous ~ Supple

Sometimes I feel so transparent
As if anyone
Everyone
Can see right into me

Sometimes I feel so luminous
As if anyone
Everyone
Can see my inner light

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 4, 20168:48 pm

Carapace and Sand, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, British Columbia, Canada

Obstacles

The obstacles in my path
Alter my flow
Creating new patterns
Of experience
In the eddies

Beautiful patterns
Surprising, exquisite
Challenging, evocative
Alarming, provocative