Tag: love

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 9, 20175:43 pm

Crescent Moon and Sailboat, Bowen Island, Howe Sound, British Columbia, Canada

Questions for the Crescent Moon

Comfortable in this infinity
Of space and time
Of love and light and meaning

No small finite creature I
Of sight and hands
Of heart and mind and spirit

If it comes down to the question
Is my living owed a purpose
I answer, oh so surely

I live to live
To love and give
My existence is, quite simply, these

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 28, 201712:42 pm

Tug and Barge at Sunset, The Strait of Georgia, BC Ferry, Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Take me home, now, wayward road

Take me home, now
Wayward road
I’ve set the course
For hearth and friends
Who knew me well
‘Fore all that changed
In the lands beyond
Our common sense

But changed have I
Beyond a scope
I can explain
No people of
This world the same
Yet all alike
In ways I’ve seen
Which never learned
From books or schools
But only when
I took the road
And spanned the gap
In time and place
To meet them in
The worlds they’ve made
Sat at their hearth
And listened, then

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 28, 20177:00 am

Bald Eagle Sunset, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Sunset Watch

I watch over you
In the darkest night
Until the sunrise

And when the darkness
Comes again

There am I

A beacon for you
To find your way

For you are the light
Which made my own life
Bright as a beacon

Canon 5D Mark II by Patrick JenningsOct 20, 20177:00 am

Courage, A-Maze-ing Laughter, Yue Minjun, West End, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Courage (for Gordon Downie)

We lost a good one this week in Canada, Gordon Downie, frontman, lyricist, songwriter for The Tragically Hip, a Canadian rock powerhouse. In the 80s and 90s, they were probably my favourite band.

This song, Courage (for Hugh MacLennan), has always resonated deeply with me. In 1998, while spending six months bicycling across China, it inspired this blog post from the road. As it turns out, with all that’s going on in the world right now, it proves a timely reminder to get back on the path of love and light and insight. It was a path Gordon Downie forged and followed vigorously, right up to the very end.

Here’s to you, Gordon. And thanks, again, for all the insight.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 24, 20174:51 pm

The Colour Fading, Eastside Road, Okanagan Lake, Vernon, British Columbia, Canada

The Sails Long Furled

In the calm
In the calm
In the gentle calm
With the sun now gone
And the colour fading

I trace the line
In reflecting mind
From a day long past
One last empty kiss
The sails long furled
On a love at rest

I trace the line
Of her long wet tear
A single note
One regretful smear
Not for promise lost
But what never was

I’d held too long
To the love she gave
Held her close
Held her heart
Knowing all too well
Love went just one way

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 22, 20176:58 pm

Infinite Shades of Grey, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada copy

Infinite Grey

I’m not sure
Whether I’m alone now
Because I’m tired of getting hurt
Or I’m tired of hurting others
Somewhere I lost track
Maybe it’s both

I’m not sure
What needs to change
What needs to heal
What I need to fix

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 14, 201712:27 pm

Patrick Jennings, Ganga Aarti, Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, Uttar Pradesh, India copy

Heart ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #87

I make no room
In my heart
For hate

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 7, 20179:27 am

Impenetrable Light, Langley, British Columbia, Canada copy

Hate ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #86

I began to realize

If I could learn to love myself
Completely
I would no longer want to hate

That kind of inner light is
Impenetrable
Even to hate’s formidable darkness

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 30, 20171:03 pm

Trust

She was broken and battered
Her ability to love
Damaged and misaligned
And yet

There was to her
A tenacious spirit
She grappled despair
And brought it down
Smothering the darkness
Not so much with light
But with a glimmer

I thought it was hope
But it was trust
Not just the kind
Given to others
But the kind given to self
Given to circumstances
Given to time, and possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 31, 20177:00 am

Hanuman bares his heart, Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Devotion

I wonder
Sometimes
At my devotions

Could I have been better
At this or at that
Had I offered more devotion

But of all the this
And all the that
Just two devotions have mattered