Tag: infinity

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 20, 201811:18 pm

No more than an Island

I am but a man
No more than an Island
In space and time

An Island without shoreline
Whose only boundary is infinity

The same Island that is every other being
Who has ever existed
Who will ever exist

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 18, 201811:09 am

Sunset Oncoming, Frank Island, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

A Record of My Existence

Clouds tumble through the sky
Like the waves roiling on the stormy sea
Thick and dark
Smothering the sunset
Leaving just enough light
To stop the sea and sky in time

I capture a moment
In an infinity of moments
Preserved only for so long
As time will allow
Longer than memory, perhaps
A record of my existence

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 10, 20173:49 pm

Moment of Repose, Davis Bay Pier, Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada

Thank the Stars

On the dock
Moonlit night
Nascent star
Starry light

Contemplate
Infinity
The great beyond
The littlest things

Quazar
Quanta
All that is
Material

Close my eyes
Another look
A look within
A look without

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 10, 20177:00 am

Small Craft and Infinity, Bowen Island, Howe Sound, From Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Infinity ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #117

With the strongest telescope
I cannot see beyond what I know to be

With an electron microscope
I cannot see within the smallest part of me

With the clearest mirror
I cannot see the me that is me

With the mightiest pen
I cannot set down the words defining me

With the cleverest mind
I cannot imagine the bounds of me

With the truest heart
I love, which is all I need to know of infinity

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 11, 201712:47 pm

Sink Lake, Yoho National Park, Trans Canada Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Capturing the Finite in Infinity

A shallow lake
A rippled mirror
The forest slumbers
On its bed of rock
Beneath a cloudy blanket

And I
Might have driven by
Then this moment lost
To the forever
Of infinite unconscious

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 27, 20171:22 pm

Rocky Mountain Starburst, Athabasca Glacier, From Wilcox Pass Trail, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 21, 201710:27 am

Moon over Bowen, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, Bowen Island and Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada-1

Infinity ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #88

I seek the moments
When the infinite
Becomes the infinitesimal

When the All
Which is everything
Becomes the One
Which is nothingness

I seek the moments
When paradox
Becomes awareness

Then am I filled
With the insight of mystery
The light of darkness
Then being becomes non-being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 4, 20179:29 am

Crescent Moon and Evening Star, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Moments Such as This

It is difficult enough
To imagine the infinity
Of space and time
Without trying
To comprehend the immensity
Of my own existence
In just this finite moment

But moments such as this
Fuel my imagination
And stoke my passion
For contemplation

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 20, 20165:31 pm

Sunrise, Canyonlands National Park, From The Knoll, Moab, Utah, United States of America

Immensity and Nothingness

In a land criss-crossed sparingly by roads
Some asphalt, most gravel
Many traversable only on foot
I seek the high ground
To watch the dawn photons
In their ambient amber
Illuminate the vast expanse of atoms
That are rock and atmosphere and life itself

There are rare moments of connection
When I can “see” all that is
Know that I am some infinitesimal
Physical
Small part of it all

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 12, 201610:35 am

Pacific Sunset, Pacific Coast Highway, Near Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

Forever

I love finding the places
Which make me feel forever
Which connect me
To the workings of the Earth
To the stars beyond the clouds
As if the horizon
Reached out to infinity