Tag: geology

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 8, 201810:03 pm

An Ancient Beach

I think of a beach
Half a billion years ago
Petrified in a moment of flux

And the creatures
Which skittered there
Having barely left the sea

I think of a wave
And the littlest living things
Awash in the foaming ocean

Not so unlike
The littlest living things
Swishing over my feet in the surf

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 29, 20172:59 pm

Striata in the Smoke, Rocky Mountains, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

A Billion Years of History

Tempting it is
To call this landscape
Barren

No life
No green
No creatures
Scurrying

(Or so it seems)

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 8, 20172:43 pm

Impending Rockies, Bow Valley Trail, Alberta, Canada

The Rockies

They rise
Like a Wall
The Rockies

Towering
Above the land
Which for a thousand miles
Has known only sky
And a horizon
Beyond infinity

We enter here
By the millions
Entranced

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 29, 20172:31 pm

No Stony End

Young conifer
Which set down roots
Some few years ago
But now exposed
By desert rains
And so it seems
To cling to Earth
While off beyond
The hoodoos laugh
At upstart pine

You see
The mighty columns say
This once was plain
Withered away
Exposing us
The roots of Earth
Soon enough
More rain will come
Erode the land
You’re rooted on
Until you fall
Then come to rest
As dust beneath
Our hoodoo feet

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 8, 20177:00 am

Whytecliff and Ferry, Whytecliff Park, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rugged ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #71

It was an old, bitter place
Grizzled and hard

A land made
Of strife
And loss
And longing

Chipped rugged
With malice
And petulance

The sky
Whispered menace
And even a calm sea
Cut rough on the keel
Like sun-baked leather

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 3, 201711:23 am

Divine Sunset

I clamber up
The edge of the world
Turn to see the world below
Awash in the light of a failing sun
Fallen far below the dais
On which I stand
Like a god
Lord of all below me
Conqueror of the heavens

A car parks beside mine
Released from its confines
A small boy, about five
Runs over to stand beside me
For a moment surveying our domain

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 22, 201611:27 am

Sandstone Domes, Watarrka National Park, Kings Canyon, Northern Territory, Australia

Fairy Tale Lands

I live in a world
Of fairy tale lands
I thought only possible
In the imaginations of
Novelists and filmmakers

Until I went exploring

Tag: geology

An Ancient Beach

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A Billion Years of History

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The Rockies

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No Stony End

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Rugged ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #71

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Divine Sunset

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Fairy Tale Lands

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