Tag: light

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 23, 20207:00 am

Star Chamber, The Alhambra, Grenada, Spain

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 17, 202012:35 pm

Moonglow

A promise of possibility coming
Here the night made bright
Though by no small trickery
And patience

Moonglow breaks the darkness
While the stars take flight
In the cool blue of winter chill
But for the warmth of amber hearths

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 15, 202010:01 pm

Log Booms XV, Pacific Spirit Regional Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Transition ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #237

Departing crippled harbour
As night approaches day
Light fails on near horizon
Transition now in play

Some might say
Dark times ahead
But unknowns
Are not darkness

One hand holds the chalk of light
While the other clears the slate
Upon the dark revealed we write
With clarity our fate

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 5, 20207:43 pm

Up or Down, El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe, Valencia, Spain

Being in the Grey

Sometimes I prefer the grey

Shadows can be too dark
Highlights can be too bright

In the grey all is line and texture
I see the form of what is

Without interpreting darkness and light

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 28, 20207:00 am

What Light through Yonder Skyline Breaks, Central Market, Valencia, Catalonia, Spain

Dimming Light

The light which skylight glass admits
Be grey and dour as such the day commits
While just as dim our life in quarantine submits
Then random seem the ones for whom disease remits

Their darkest hour
To bed confined
For none the power
To stall the march of death’s decline

And so alone
Souls pass away
While not a hand
Is offered they
But latex glove
The touch at end of earthly stay

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 24, 20209:31 am

Shadow and Light, Museu de les Ciències, Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències, Valencia, Spain

Leaving The Grey Between

We are these incredible creatures
Of both darkness and light
We keep buried so very deeply
So we might never know how full
Is the pain of our despair
Or the beauty of our spirit
Or the strength we might show
If we could but release ourselves
From the grey we have created
To keep the best of ourselves
And the worst of ourselves
Beneath the skin
Beneath our consciousness
Beyond our capacity
To love

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 16, 202010:43 am

Hold & Reveal

Dark Island
Tide recedes

Amber glow
Inner light

So long as I hold the one
Let the other be revealed

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 5, 202012:25 pm

Worlds I Create

I create these worlds
Of personal sanctuary
A beauty and calm
Cloaking distress and fear
Palaces of chilling warmth
An argument with reality
Which cannot be won

I remind myself
The world of distress and fear
Is also a creation of mine
The cloak only gives it power
The palace of true warmth
Is the light of my own heart
Which cannot be sundered

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 5, 202010:38 am

Narrow Passage

Narrow passage
Some small hopeful light beyond
Fades on toward the night

Though wide the sea
Destination obscured
Departure long overdue
From specious sanctuary

Where murk grows ever deeper
Even as hopeful light diminishes
Beyond the narrow passage

Start the engine
Provisioned stores and buttressed heart
Set rudder’s course through narrow passage
Bound for hopeful light beyond

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 30, 20203:20 am

Golden River, Storm Mountain, Over the Bow Riveer, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

The Amber Stream

I wend my way
Through life and all
Its myriad conditions

Oxbows and diversions
Rapids and reservoirs

Confined by circumstances

Wide and shallow
Narrow and deep

Always flowing toward the light
Golden warmth which fills my heart
Reflecting on the amber stream