Tag: GloPoWriMo

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 29, 20199:35 pm

Patterns, Museu de les Ciències, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain

Patterns of Opposites

I try to follow
The myriad lines
Creating the myriad forms
Regular and irregular
Symmetric and asymmetric
A cacophony of harmonies
Patterns within broken patterns
Broken again to form patterns

In them the complexity of life
Perfect imperfection
Destabilized and fortified
A confusion of order
A diffusion of resolution

I breathe in
The beauty of opposites
Comprising the oneness
Of being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 26, 201910:28 pm

Center of Being, Central Market, Valencia, Spain

Central Being

The light
At the center of it all
Like a beacon
Calling me
To the nature of
Existence

Experienced
With a deep breath
And a quiet mind
Which knows nothing
Believes naught
Open to all

Possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 25, 20198:16 pm

Saints and Angels, The Chancery and domes, Valencia Cathedral, Spain

Grounding in Heaven

Gaze rising
To metaphorical heavens
Where grace and splendour
Ground me to Earth
And this moment

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 24, 20195:39 pm

Disoriented, Valencia Cathedral, Valencia, Spain

Orienteering

Religion
Disoriented
Me

A God
In which I had no
Faith

Prayers and rites
In which I found no
Substance

Disillusioned
I abandoned
Belief

Riding the
Pendulum’s
Swing

Into the
Comforts of
Reason

Content there
With logic and
Fact

I explored the bounds
Of science and
Philosophy

Discovering
A realm well beyond
Knowledge

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 23, 20193:50 pm

Chancel and Dome, Valencia Cathedral, Valencia, Spain

Faith

With a leap of faith
All great achievements begin
Never mind the source

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 22, 201911:34 am

Abstract Fish, Palau De Les Arts, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain

Earth Day

I dreamt there’d be a day
In some none too distant future
When an architectural abstraction
Outlived all the fishes in the sea

Now I cannot sleep

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 21, 20192:53 pm

dis connect, Barcelona Waterfront, Catalonia, Spain

dis connect ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #184

I look
Neither inward
Nor outward

I connect
Not with being
But a fetish

This realm
Of virtual
Manifestation

And while I look
And while I connect
I am lost

To the moment
To my own presence
To being itself

While all around
Existence dances and plays
Without my participation

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 19, 20195:45 pm

Whimsy in blues and golds and balloons, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Whimsy is a Child

Whimsy in blues and balloons
Lines light and playful
As a child’s smile
In twilight illuminate
Mother impatient
For changing lights
Her girl content
With latex-captured breath

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 18, 20194:03 pm

Follow Me

Light filters down
To dim blue depths
Where it pools
In lazy patterns
Upon empty lanes
Marked here and there
With blood red tiles
And doors
While wicker lines the walls

I grab a basket
From a hook
Gather light
From the pools
To carry further
Into navy
And the black
Where deepest shadows lay

There I breathe
In dim recess
The light across
All wavelengths
Equal bright
Spirit-pure the white
With neither heat nor harm
To eyes which can now see
Beyond the self
The wall of me

I spy infinity within
Infinity without
And in between
A single point
Without space
Or time
To count
Not even
Infinitesimal
Amount

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 17, 20193:06 pm

Confinement

Bound
In heart and spirit

Lost
On a forkless path

Stop
Look for a door
A ladder, a rope

Turn
Seek another path
Upon retraced steps

Wait
For alternatives
To appear

Move
Follow the instinct
Which began this path

Despair
There is no despair
Only tenacity