Tag: freedom

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 8, 20202:43 pm

Caged Bird, Spanish Air Force Dassault Mirage III EE, Museu de les Ciències, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain

Freedom ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #236

She told me why the caged bird sings
She told me of the rage
That the pain creates
How it colours everything

I can’t perch where the caged bird sings
But to her fearful trill
Take up harmony
This free bird sings so to keep her wing

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 21, 20207:43 pm

Chamber, Palacios Nazaries, Alhambra, Granada, Spain

Prisoner’s Mantra

Boxed in
And cornered
No way out
But to acknowledge

These four walls
Do not a prison make
Nor is the light
Ever extinguished

Beyond the windows
The sun is bright
Inside this cell
My spirit is free

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 16, 201910:13 am

Catalunya Political Graffiti, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Cerdanyola de Valles, Catalunya (Catalonia), Spain II

Confined

Imprisoned
Confined
By politics
Extreme and
Everyday

Barred
Unbarred
No difference

Constricted
Patterns of
Thought and being

Restricted
By others and
Self

Freed
First from
Within

Lead
Only when
Freed

Fujifilm X-T2 by Patrick JenningsApr 8, 20191:57 pm

Flight

Confined
I was
Until I remembered
My wings

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 15, 20188:14 pm

Narrow Channel

A narrow pass
To my release

Beyond horizons
Uncharted

Possibility
Gleams

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 15, 20177:00 am

Cacophony

In the cacophonous mingling
Of mountain and sky
My eye finds no place to rest
No one object to hold it

So it is free

To revel in the details
The myriad forms
The endless possibility
Of discovery

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 25, 20161:34 pm

Free as a Gull, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, Porteau Cove, British Columbia, Canada

Where the Land Meets the Sky

Where the land meets the sky
Between the heavens and the sea
I fly free as a gull
On the shifting breeze

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 19, 201610:46 pm

Railroad Crossing, Route 66, Mojave Desert, California, United States of America

Steel Wheels

Steel Wheels
Get me where I’m goin’
When rubber on the road failed
And the leather on my soles
Wore through

Freedom
Ain’t never gotten with a dollar
Or no lawful decree
Not like a box car
Give to me

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 19, 20167:00 am

Wind, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Wind ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #42

Buffeted
Unsteady
Windy air
Challenges
Equilibrium

Turned to it
Faced head on
Arms out wide
As if wings
Unfettered by Earth

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 1, 20164:57 pm

Alcatraz

From the tower
I frame in the traffic circle
My pickup truck at the bottom
Holding Alcatraz in the bay
Looking so peaceful

Tag: freedom

Freedom ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #236

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