Tag: monochrome

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 5, 20171:11 pm

Grey on Grey

Grey on grey on grey on grey

Even under leaden sky
There is some magic yet
When lone gull wings
On rippling breeze
Grace in its poise
Careless of thought
Satisfied in arc
And swoop of flight
Which lifts me too
From baleful earth
Between the greys
Of clouds and sea

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 10, 20171:28 pm

Silken Veil

Oh, clouds!

Insistent weather brings
To harry mountains
Obscure the scene
I travelled far
Intent to see

But…

Soon enough
Beguile me
They dance and play
Revealing games

A silken veil
May hide the charms
But, no, no … please!

Don’t take it off

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 10, 201710:28 am

Molten Sky

This molten sky
Enveloping
Sweet nature’s towers
In cloudy flames
Of fiery grey
Which leap and dance
Yet leave no mark
But for the rain
Which splatters me
And like those fires
Burning orange hot
Renews the life
On mountainsides
Then when it’s past
This monochrome
Reveal the sun
To cast its light
On verdant slopes
With cotton peaks

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 22, 20163:57 pm

Brooding Monochrome

I love the blue skies
Snow-capped peaks
Atop emerald mountains
Over turquoise sea

But here is a rainforest
In this brooding monochrome
The nature of its beauty lies

And come to revel in it
Have I and many others

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 22, 20162:17 pm

Cradled in the Clouds

I’ve never seen the expression
Cradled in the clouds
Rendered with such concinnity
As along the Sea to Sky

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 2, 20161:35 pm

A Stormy Dusk, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Howe Sound Dusky Blues

Dusk descends
Hard and fast
Like the rain

Clouds
And mountains
Mingle

In a waning light
The camera records
As a monochrome

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 1, 201611:11 am

Horseshoe Bend, Glen Canyon, above the Colorado River, Utah, United States of America

When life was a mystery, yet to be told

As if I’d landed
Billions of years ago
On a planet still young
And restless

When rock flowed as liquid
And the only solid lands
Were granite rafts
Floating on a molten orb

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 24, 201511:02 pm

Porteau Cove, Howe Sound, British Columbia, Canada

Slate

In a world the tone of slate
I seek beauty in
Texture
Tone
The interplay of shadow and highlight
In the quality and dynamic
Of shape, form and composition

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 1, 20158:00 am

Drought

I watched the white paint shrivel and dry
On the old shed out back

I watched it pucker and peel
In successive seasons
Of wet, then cold, then wet again, then heat
Since decades past

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 22, 20157:00 am

Nature’s Paint Brush

Nature has this way
Of letting creatures who think they control her
Know she is always there
And how ephemeral their efforts really are