Tag: history

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 6, 20157:35 am

I drive through history

I drive through history
Illuminating the present
Drawing a map
Into the future

I remind myself
Do not linger in the past
I need to know where I am
And look where I am going

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 7, 20159:36 am

Bypassed

I plunked myself down
On the well-travelled way
Which served me so well
For many a day

I didn’t notice
Until almost too late
That the times were a-changing
At a very fast rate

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 7, 20158:16 am

Every wall falls

Eventually
Every wall falls
Or is breached
Or otherwise defeated

Time crumbles their mortar
Context shifts their efficacy
Or a new technology
Renders them impotent

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 6, 201510:43 pm

When Night Fell

Night fell
On the last ride
At the end of the trail
On those uprooted
Murdered
Stripped of identity

An image a white man made
Which earned white man’s awards
In a museum of white man ways
A monument to a way that was

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 29, 20158:00 am

Forbidden Smog

From Jingshan peak
They surveyed the world
From the heart
Of The Middle Kingdom

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 6, 201512:44 pm

Until the rain did fail

Thus they shone
Close to bone
A feat not
Taken lightly

Until
The rain
Did fail

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 5, 20153:52 pm

The beauty and insight I will never know

It is not the unknown
Which frightens me
But the stories I create
To comfort my ignorance

And so I forfeit
The beauty
And insight
I will never know

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 15, 20153:15 pm

Meeting Lenin

Sometimes I sit and think about
The men hist’ry treats with greatness
Often with the best intentions
They philosophize false witness

They script the creeds
Direct the deeds
They lead a people
To their fate

Or is it ‘fate’ created?

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 26, 20156:55 pm

Black Frank

Black Frank was the Lord of Nanaimo
And Admiral’d the fleet that made tubs go
When they mounted an engine
“Well,” Frank said, “let’s go racin’!”
Across Georgia Strait, what a great show!

Landscape by Patrick JenningsJul 12, 201511:02 am

The Road of Flight

66 is the mother road, the road of flight.
~ John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 12

Steinbeck dedicated chapter twelve of Grapes to Route 66, the road of flight for dust bowl refugees seeking the promise of something better in California. The chapter traces Route 66, its terrain, its places, its challenges, the experiences of its desperate travellers, from the Joad family home in Oklahoma all the way to Los Angeles.