Tag: imagination

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 26, 20207:00 am

Line and Texture, Palau De Les Arts, Ciutat De Les Arts I Les Ciences, Valencia, Spain

Awed

Awed by the imagination of others
I am inspired to create
Without boundary
Or fear

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 26, 202010:32 am

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain

Convergence

All that is
Converges on a single point
Where all that is known and imaginable
Exists in the experience and imagination
Of a single sentience

Earth alone
Is home to billions of such convergences
Leading to this gesture of humility:
How can I know this convergence of mine
Is the best of billions

Or even any good at all

All I know
Of the billions of others
Is at best learned conjecture
Even with the most intimate knowledge
Thus am I both creator and interpreter

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 31, 201911:01 am

Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, United States of America

A Different Kind of Magic

Sometimes I squint
To smudge the world
Within my mind

Then paint upon
The softened scene
A different

Kind of magic

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 20, 20191:34 pm

Lens-dropping a Conversation

Fragments
Of a conversation
Unheard

My mind
Fills the emptiness
Unspoken

Creates
Stories imagined but
Untold

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 4, 20193:16 pm

Caterpillar, Aqueduct, Park Guell, Antonio Gaudi, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Trampled

Have you ever wondered
What it might be like
To get trampled
By a caterpillar?

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 27, 20193:44 am

Stratospheric, London to Barcelona, Somewhere over France

Worlds I Can’t Imagine

I see the world
In ways my ancestors
Could not imagine

But I wonder too
At the worlds now gone
I cannot imagine

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 6, 20184:48 pm

Howe Sound Greys, Porteau Cove, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Magic Isle

Like some magic Isle
Home of sorcerers and kings
A misty shroud
Hides secret things

The waters
Preternaturally
Still
Beneath them slinks
Unearthly beast

And I
A Knight
With hallowed sword
Will sail across
Beyond the wards
And battle dragons
Which hurl epithets
And fire

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 4, 201811:42 am

Breathing Fire, New Brighton Park, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Imagination ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #129

In the dimness
I saw a monster on my bed
But just a towel
In a jumble
A child’s mind
Trying to make sense

In reflections
I see a dragon breathing fire
But just a building
With a light on
Like the child
Imagination still at play

Should the day come
When I see only what’s there
No monsters, no dragons
Which I playfully must slay
How sad I will be
In a world so plain and grey

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 19, 20183:36 pm

Psychedelic Sunset, Near Lions Bay, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Imagine

Oh what a gift
Imagination is
To take the world
And bend it
To make what is not
Into what is

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 21, 201811:15 am

Three Figures, Frank Island, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Silhouette ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #123

Three figures teeter on distant rock
Silent silhouettes
Animate without the subtlety of gesture
Barely beings
Tottering along
A knife’s edge horizon

Three lives there
Faceless beneath the clouds
Unknown
Unknowable
But for outlines
Against the sky

One drops off the world
Lost forever
To anonymity
But for the unnamed character
Forming in the theatre
Of my mind