Tag: healing

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 12, 201911:02 am

Winter Rangeland, Highway 87, Somewhere between WInslow and Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Move along

It’s time to set
The wheels in motion
Time to move along
Not so much
To just be rolling
Much more to have
Intent

No need for
Destination
No need
To have a plan
Not yet

But scan
Horizons
For potential
For places I’d like
To get

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 30, 20189:34 am

Chasm

Roar of the river
My own deafening fury
Churning water cuts a chasm
Seething anger rends my spirit

Standing on the ledge
Letting rage flow away
Wounds upon my soul
Close and begin to heal

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 13, 20182:57 pm

The sky; the sea; the land

The sky
     like a distant hope
The sea
     is my rolling pain
The land
     oh, it anchors soul

And I
     hold the sky
Let the pain
     roll away
Heel to land
     find my soul

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 10, 201811:58 pm

The Retreat, Harmony in Form and Word, Gallery Bistro, Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada

A Part of Myself

I put a part of myself
A deepest part
Up on a wall
For any and all to see

Ambivalence
Trepidation
Uncertainty

Too much?
Too dark?
Too bleak?

For a bistro?

Until a voice says
“That is me, up there
On your wall.”

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 6, 20188:56 pm

Bentonite, Badlands, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Texture

Texture
Articulate
Constructed
Of hardship
Perseverance
Resilience
Like the character
Of recovery
True beauty

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 5, 20189:54 pm

Island of the Tides

The tide
High
And I
Am an Island

Isolated
And alone

But tides turn
And so do I

So soon
The sea
Reveals
The sand

And I
Am one
With the
World

Again

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 3, 20187:00 am

Autumn Light, Over Lynne Mansion, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Trauma

I am of this world
And I am not

I am in this world
And I am not

I have this body
And I do not

I am present
I am nowhere

I am here
But not

I am present
I am a ghost

This is trauma
This is dissociation

Tag: healing

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