Tag: NaPoWriMo

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 JenningsApr 20, 201811:45 am

Vancouver and Harbour, From Woodward's Building, British Columbia, Canada

Builders We

Such prolific builders we
Who raze an endless stand of trees
Erecting concrete towers in their place
With geometric rigour lacking nature’s grace
We sunder her, retrain our eyes to see

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 19, 20189:21 pm

Shadows in the Mist, Black Sand Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United State of America

Shadow in the Mist

Sometimes
I seem
Even to myself
As a shadow
In the mist

Irresolute
Unfulfilled
Incomplete

I remind myself
Step
Into my being
Out of the shadows
Beyond the mist

Steadfast
Manifest
Consummate

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 18, 20187:23 am

Patterns in Steel, Alphanumeric Sphere, New Westminster Public Library, New Westmeinster, British Columbia, ,Canada

Finding the Steel

Beaten
Crushed
Defeated

I find the steel
Within
To go on

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 17, 20182:24 pm

Queen of the Bazaar, Chandni Chowk market in Old Delhi, New Delhi, India

More Love

Come away with me
I will let you be
Whoever you wish to be

He doesn’t love you
Who would limit you
To who you are now

He does not love you
Who would have you
All to himself

That is not love
But the need of love
As if you are a fetish

Come away with me
And I will let you love
Whomever you want to love

Because I love
That you want
More than just me

It would be enough
To know
You loved yourself best

It would be enough
To know
Who you loved most, next

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 20187:20 pm

This Little Buoy

This little buoy
Between the rocks
Bobs and clangs
In gentle swells

A narrow draft
‘Tween reef and land
One red one green
The channel marked

At night
Her light
Bright green
Is seen

Green on the port
To find the port
Green to starboard
Then sail the seas

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 20187:00 am

Wake

Always looking forward
I move through the world
Oblivious to the wake
Left in my path
Until I look back
Into the shadowy past
And see the ripples
Of my existence
Disturb the worlds of others

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 15, 20182:26 pm

Occluded Valley, Banff National Park, Icefields Parkway, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Occluded ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #135

Oh the grandiosity
Of mountain ranges
Under cloudless skies

Though here demurred
Occluding smoke
Smothers valley’s depth and scale

Still, upon a closer look
The trees, a ridge
A jagged line

And then another
Slight serrated edge
The third and fourth both smoother still

So scale restored
I can imagine depth, at least
As this choking smoke occludes my breath

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 15, 201812:00 am

A litle light electrical, Chandni Chowk, New Delhi, India

Just Take It In

Sometimes
I just take it in
Don’t try to figure things out

Sometimes
There’s just too much going on
Too many possibilities

Overwhelmed
Confused
Disoriented

So I watch
So I listen
And try not to think

Let it all settle

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 13, 20187:00 am

Buddha Subduing Mara, Wat Shri Chum, Sukhothai, Thailand

Awakening

In the blurry fog
Of Western Christianity
In which there seemed
Oh so much hypocrisy
The gentle touch
Of Eastern thought
Guided me
Along a different path
Straight to the core
Of Christ’s own heart