Tag: memory

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 5, 202511:57 pm

Boy at the Mosque, Kashgar, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Peoples Republic of China

Frame ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #409

We share a gaze

He a brave stance
At the Entrance

I from the street
Eye to viewfinder

Framing the frame
Within a frame

Click

Decades pass

Scanning through the scans
Seeking inspiration
From days all but forgotten
Memories vague
Impressions with few details

But for a few frames
A moment caught as light
Falling on silver
Frames of reference
Scanned to bits
Then left unedited
Until today

Another frame
Before and after
The unremembered moments
What happened before
What happened next
The unknown frame
Of time

A frame
Within a frame
Within a frame
Within a frame

I can call up
This moment
Captured in a click
Beyond that
In time and space
Is outside the frame

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 16, 20242:51 pm

Pix or it didn’t Happen

It has been said
Pix or it didn’t happen
All too true
In a literal sense
As the mind grows older
And my memory weaker

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 5, 20247:00 am

Bicycle Rickshaw Driver, Chandni Chowk Market, New Delhi, India

Moments I’ll not Remember

In motion
I am still
In stillness
I am empty
In emptiness
I find no peace

Hollow
Haunted
Vacant

Amidst this familiar pandemonium
I alone am solid
Yet invisible

Carrying as passenger
A pain which pays no fare
Answers no questions
Offers no solutions

The me of this moment
None will remember
Not even I

But here
The pain shuffles off
Into the crowd
And I will not remember it either

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 29, 202211:49 am

Tight on the Droplets, Rogue River Gorge Falls, Oregon, United States of America

As Water Falls

As water falls
In fractured cascade
See trauma’s pain

Fragmented mesh
Of memory and behavior
Slim tenuous tendrils
Strewn across twin darknesses
Of dissociation and repression
Shattered shards of self
Unanchored and adrift

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 20, 20219:57 am

Roman Horseman Fresco, The Museum of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Frame ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #279

The Past

Cropped and framed
Colour corrected and edited
Burnished and patinaed

To make a picture
That tells the story
I wish to remember

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 17, 20219:58 pm

Winter is Here, River of Golden Dreams, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Freezing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #262

The freeze is coming
Soon will river ice over
You below the ice

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 21, 202011:23 am

Sunset Lovers, Amphitrite Point Lighthouse, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Embraced

I embrace myself
With the memory
Of your presence

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 18, 20195:21 pm

Fractured, Bicycle Path, Creekside Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Fractured ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #201

All these moments
Become fractured memories
Altered with time

In a mind
Bent on manipulating them
To serve the present

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 21, 201810:04 pm

Forgotten Library, Britannia Mining Museum, Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

Forsaken Library

It had been a library
Once
I guess it still was
Though
What did that matter

Few
Enough left who could
Read
The irrelevant past
Now

Silly stories of
Love
Self help for plentiful
Times
Dystopian imaginings for a world of

Ease
So it was no wonder salvagers
Found
No value in printed
Words

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 19, 20187:00 am

Lost to Eternity

His memory of them was faint
Especially his father
The moments
Which held them both
Were few
And distorted

Because he tried so hard
To place features
On their bodies
On their faces
Which he just couldn’t recollect
Over time he’d lost
The recollection of the places, too

How odd
That the one crystal clear element
In this one otherwise tortured image
Was the frame shop
Filled with photographs and paintings
Recorded for eternity