Tag: India

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 12, 20222:57 pm

A little girl ran through it, Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India

Serendipity Captured

She ran through the frame
Dressed in all the right bright colours

A child’s exuberance
Equal to the vibrance
Of the setting

Click click click
Went the shutter

All good
But one click
Is perfect

Ephemeral moment
Eternally captured

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 15, 202212:11 pm

Himalaya Foothills Sunrise VII, Kunjapuri Devi Temple, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Valleys and Passes

Layers deep
To promising light
From a ledge of darkness

Valleys and passes
Stand between

Despair and possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 27, 202212:37 am

Magic is a Child, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Magic ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #311

Magic is a child
This unknown girl
Who casts upon
My weary soul

Unfettered glee
The guileless love
Which is delight
In briefest moment

Such sweet respite
From adult cares
Her master class
In living well

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 12, 202212:33 am

Saris, Chandni Chowk Night Market, New Delhi, India

Spectacle ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #297

I marvel
For a moment
At the saris
Hanging in the shops

A spectacle of

Colour
Texture
Pattern

Each sari unique

Tightly packed
In the confines
Of tiny shops

Not at all unlike
The thrumming humanity
In the narrow streets
Of Chandni Chowk

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 25, 20211:32 pm

There Then Not, Bicycle Rickshaw Line, Lajpar Nagat Metro Station, New Delhi, India

Christmas Day

He was there
Then not
All in the space
Of a few final breaths

Now a ghost

Whose laugh is lost
But to memory
And longing

Gone twenty five years
In this time of cheer
And on this day
Am I reminded

A twinkle in the eye
Said more
Than words, sometimes said
Had ever said

I love you, son

I love you too, dad

Fujifilm X-T2 by Patrick JenningsSep 25, 20215:01 pm

Monkey & Red Fort Sunrise, Hotel Tara Place, Chandni Chowk, New Delhi, India

Penultimate Sunrise in the Big Smoke

It was the last full day in India. The smoke had been chokingly thick for the entire month I’d spent in the north, and Delhi hadn’t even been the worst of it. Still, I’d found a decent rate at a decent hotel (some small comfort in exchange for the respiratory distress) on the edge of Old Delhi’s fantastical Chandni Chowk markets for the final days before my flight home.