Tag: love

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 15, 20244:44 pm

Decay, Skinners Pond, Prince Edward Island, Canada

Renew ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #352

Once was

Vibrant
Living
Loving

Became

Decay
Barren
Listless

Now is

Renew
Reborn
Struggle

To be

Vibrant
Living
Loving

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 23, 20237:00 am

A Whisper in the Silence, Quaco Head Lighthouse, St. Martins, New Brunswick, Canada

Song to Silence

I wake in the mornings
Mind always in a foggy mist
To find, always
Like a whisper in the silence
Rising to become song
You are there

Nothing so rouses
My faded spirit
As your voice of grace
And compassion
Singing love to this soul
That’s lived in silence

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 21, 20232:42 pm

Island off the Point of an Island, White Point, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

Drifting not Adrift

When I lost her
Some small but integral
Part of my being
Broke away

For a while
It floated nearby
Just out of reach
Yet a lingering presence

The current of time
The drift of the everyday
That Island of her
Receded further and further

Until one day
I scanned the horizon
No Island was there
A single tear fell into the sea

The sea was unperturbed
It said to me
You have learned to live without her
That is all

I understood
I had forgiven her
And myself
For our breakup

I’d allowed the blame
To drift away
Which made me
Whole again

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 17, 202310:47 pm

Waves

The land moves
Waves of soil and asphalt
Break at my feet

Transport me
To a distant beach
And the love I shared there

I imagine the wind
Carries wafts of brine and low-tide
Amid the many scents of you

Across this rolling sea
And a beckoning highway
I reach out for a hand

That cannot be here

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 14, 20237:00 am

High Power, highway 570, Sunnybrook, Alberta, Canada

Power Line

Through the gloom
You reach out
To offer light
And energy

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 4, 20237:00 am

Golden Hour Love, Skyline Trail, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada

Love ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #347

They call this “golden hour”
But every hour spent with you
Is golden

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 17, 20237:00 am

Serpentine

This serpentine life

I dip into
And out of
Joy

Into and out of
Despair

Into and out of
Love

Into and out of
Grief

Knowing there will always be
Joy and despair
Love and grief

Accepting that each will come
As it will
And too shall pass
As it will

Learning to flow through each
With gratitude
And compassion
As I move through life

All the while
Exploring the landscape
Of possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 28, 20222:16 pm

Ascension

You, dear one
On your own stormy passage
Astride God’s wing
These waning days
Rising through your fall
Into His grace

Slowed in wit and voice
Ever keener of spirit
You ascend

Passing through
Deep featureless slumbers
Parting clouds offer
Fleeting glimpses of the love
Gathered ’round you

Then
With swift finality
Through the cloud
Into heaven’s azure
There to witness
God’s full blaze
And in His embrace
The lesser stars
Of those who’d passed
This way before

And there too
The One True Love
You’d lost so long ago
Now with God
He welcomes your return
To Love’s eternity