Tag: India

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 11, 20186:08 pm

Himalaya Foothills I, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Called

The road goes on ahead
Down, down, down
Into the smokey valley

But I would stay here
Above the floor
Above the fray

In the unfettered sun
Where the mountain breeze
Clears the air, so pure

If not for the call
And the necessity
For the work

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 11, 20182:27 pm

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

Daybreak

Gently
I enter the day
Warming slowly
To the light
The birdsong
The clackety rumbling
Of footfalls and engines
Outside the window
As existence draws me back
Into being

Though, really
I could do with a few more hours
Of non-being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 11, 201811:02 am

Angel of the Ganga, Ganges River, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Moments ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #130

There is a moment
A moment before
A moment after

Each with their own tenor
Their own flavour
Their own meaning

There is the overall
The changing times
The recollected meaning

Of a moment
Made up of moments
All part of another

Moment

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 10, 20185:34 pm

Mother and Daughters II, Ganges River (Ganga), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

The Holy Ganga

There are waters in this world
I would not so much
As dip a toe in
I am thinking

As a mother purifies herself
In the waters of the holy Ganga
While her daughters prepare
To leap in, yet again

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 10, 201811:57 am

Kites in the Dusk II, On the Ganga (Ganges River), Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India

Kites in the Twilight

A story told
In every land
Come twilight
In the quiet time
We take repose
In gentle acts
Of little
Or no
Consequence
Though
An unsubtle beauty
In recompense

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 2, 20184:35 pm