Tag: India

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 8, 201710:57 am

The Birds

They flock
The gulls
To feed
On seed
And bread
That’s thrown
From boats
On which
The tourists
View
The banks
Where
Funeral
Pyres burn
All day
And night

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 7, 20179:54 pm

Jewellery Seller and Pigeons, The Ganga (Ganges River), Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India copy

Marker on the Way Home

She’s my marker
The jewellery seller
Leaning against
The Tower of Baba

I stop by her ad-hoc shop
Mapping my way home
In my mind

From here
A set of stairs
Like a hundred others
All along the the Ganga banks
For miles north and south
Except these stairs
Lead home, almost straight

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 6, 20179:28 pm

Saris on the Steps, The Ganges, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Spirits Cleansed

They come to bathe
In waters pure
Then, with spirits cleansed
They dry their saris
Upon the steps
Which bore them down
To Mother Ganga’s shore

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 5, 20179:24 pm

Rower on the Ganga

Flotilla at rest
On the quiet river
In the grey cool morning

A few boats rock
As tourists clamber aboard
Laughter and photographs

As my camera surveys the scene
One boat begins to move
Oars dipping, splashing

I find frame on the boat
Zooming out; zooming in
Click a few exposures

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 4, 20177:00 am

Spire and Sunset, Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

Sunset & Minaret

Sunset and minaret
What more need be said
But for the hundreds who
Meander through
The tranquil peace
This evening grace
Within the shadow of
Perfection