Tag: music

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 19, 20247:00 am

Xavier Rudd

Love fills him
Overflows
A river
A gentle flood
Of love
Washes over me
Over all of us
Fills us
Intoxicant

His smile
Radiant
A broadcast ecstacy
Writ across his face
An unfathomable beauty
Of being
Filled with love

I remember
Being filled like that
Being love
Being grateful
For every moment
In every moment

I remember
Being flawed
Knew I was flawed
Still, I was full with love

I remember
Being in pain
Debilitated by suffering
Still, I was full with love

I forgave the flaws of others
Because love forgave my own
While I worked to repair them

I empathized with the pain of others
Because love allowed me to feel my own
While I followed a healing path

So I thank him
Up on the stage
This beaming intensity
Of beautiful light
As I sing the refrains
As I sway
To the rhythms of the music
To the flow of his love
To this man
This beautiful man

Who is not without faults
Who is not without pain
Yet is filled to overflowing
With love

I thank him
For the reminder
That I can be filled with love
That I can be love
Without first making myself
Perfect

Because I have been
Before

Because in this moment
I am again

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 13, 202111:43 am

She Sings, Josephine Choi, Badaboom, Bay Moorings Restaurant, Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Creation ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #278

There is nothing so beautiful
As a moment offered in whole
To the act of creation

Except perhaps
One given
To love

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 4, 201911:02 pm

Slinki Extra Wide I, Gallery Bistro, Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada

Loss ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #199

From time to time we lose
People, places and things
We love

In the absence
Recollections induce the bittersweet
With time, perhaps, becoming less bitter than sweet

Losses lightened
By the moments, words and images
We’ve captured

The joys once lived
Remain in our memories
And in our hearts

In the empty spaces
Something new, perhaps
Something new to love

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 17, 20197:41 pm

For the Birds, Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Birdseed

All the world’s aflutter
For little girls
Fistfuls of birdseed
Their indiscriminate chaos

Such are the conditions
Of beautiful perfections

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 17, 201810:26 am

The Wells and Dancing Boy, Sea to Sky Gondola, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Focus ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #144

Sometimes
It’s hard to stay focused
To capture all the details
To see the whole picture

Still
I see enough
To know the beauty
Of a moment

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 24, 20173:22 pm

She Sang

She sang
With all her heart
She sang

Though the power
In her voice came

From the moments
Between words
Between songs
In quiet introspection

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.