Tag: isolation

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 11, 202012:27 pm

Gridlock, Chandni Chowk Market, Old Delhi district, New Delhi, India

Small in a Time of Grand

Missing small moments
In crowded worlds of being
Isolated times

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 12, 20205:09 pm

Desert Highway

Desert highways
Strips of empty pavement
Crossing expanses of isolation
Lifeless seeming, lonesome

Stillness, quiet, patience
Reveal a vibrant pattern of life
Just as for the terrain they cross

Just as stillness, quiet, patience
Reveal the vibrant pattern of being

Within

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 5, 20189:54 pm

Island of the Tides

The tide
High
And I
Am an Island

Isolated
And alone

But tides turn
And so do I

So soon
The sea
Reveals
The sand

And I
Am one
With the
World

Again

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 16, 20184:06 pm

Victoria Chained, Hannah Levien, The Magicians, Season I

Unchained Melody

Darkness
Chains
Isolation

But for
A trickle of light
Filtered down
Through the depths
And for a time
On cloudless days
A streamer
Of brilliance
Reminds
A world beyond
This dreary depth

No chains
Confine me
No darkness
Destroy me
No isolation
Confound me

The light beyond
Serves to remind
The light within

Always burning
Always bright
Always connected

So that I

Am never in darkness
Am never restrained
Am never alone

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 12, 20187:08 am

I in the Crowd

I scan the crowd
Everyone so different
Yet all the same

And then there is I
So different still
From all the rest

Or so
I like
To think

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 18, 20181:18 pm

Barely Solid, Fast Frames, Denman & Nelson, West End, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Blur and Shadow

Sometimes the world seems
Populated by blurs and shadows
Even I am not entirely solid

I often wonder, then
Am I the blur?
Am I the shadow?
In all those other eyes
I can barely see

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 4, 20177:00 am

Islands, Newcastle Island Park, Departure Bay, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada

Islands That Am I

This Island
That am I
Clouds and currents
Rushing by

Isolated
No ferry stops
No bridge to cross
Too cold to swim

So stranded here
In my beliefs
While rowboats rock
Tied up to dock

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 19, 20179:28 am

Isolation, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Isolation ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #114

Alone
I walk out
Onto the expanse
Of rippled sand

The clouds
Roil and tumble above
In grandiose parade
Across azure sky

With every step
I feel a little smaller
A lone figure
Isolated on an expanding horizon

Until I stop
Breathe deeply
Breathe in all this
Glorious enormity

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 4, 20167:00 am

Islet in the Sound, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Islands ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #66

I make an Island of myself
Against every prohibition
Bask in the sun
On isolated shores

Until the gloom rolls in
And I see the distant lights
Across the unbridged gap
Understanding at last

The vulnerability
Of this small Islet of Me
Amiss in a vast
And lonely sea

Abstract by Patrick JenningsApr 15, 20157:00 am

Shadow in the Singing Sands

Dragging my feet along the dune’s crest I notice the shadow falling away in the sand. Stopped, I am a willowy figure, impossibly tall, in a cloudless, windless expanse of sand beyond my cinematic imagination. A lone — lonely — silhouette for whom the Mountains of Singing Sands do not offer a whisper. Isolation. Solitude.

Framing the picture is easy, but the figure… the figure lacks form. A couple of poses make no improvement, until I hold my left arm out and the camera strap falls from my shoulder.