Tag: NaPoWriMo

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 29, 20182:41 pm

Railway Sunset, Route 66, Mojave Desert, California, United States of America

The Long Straight and Narrow

Some roads are a joyride
Some roads are a roadtrip
Some roads are a journey

And some roads are the long haul
Running straight and narrow
Ending somewhere beyond the horizon

Roll onto one of these
And I’ve made a commitment
Right to the end of the line

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 29, 20189:20 am

Ancient Selfie, Aboriginal Art, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, Australia copy

Selfie ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #137

With an economy
Of line and form
We learned to tell
Our living story

Upon the wall
Of ancient cave
A blogger posts
An early selfie

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 28, 201812:54 pm

Stormtrooper Street Art, Blood Alley, Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lines & Words

I love

how a brush stroke
or a phrase
can create

an icon

how few lines
or words
are required

to tell a story

and how every story
and every icon
means something different

to everyone

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 27, 201810:02 am

Himalaya Foothills Sunrise VII, Kunjapuri Devi Temple, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Simplest Lines

I love to find
The simplest lines
In the complexity
Of nature

Though so reduced
In form I find
Her beauty
Undiminished

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 26, 20189:02 pm

Love Grace Beauty Meaning

I am moved most

By the things we
     construct
     create
     imagine

For
     love
     grace
     beauty
     meaning

Utility
Matters little
To me

Except
In a tool
For creation

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 25, 201810:12 am

Southbound Highway 87, Between Round Top and Winslow, Arizona, United States of America

Where Adventure Begins

I take the straight road
Through the golden land
Beneath illumined skies

Somewhere beyond
The vanishing lines
Where the land rises
Above the horizon

The straight lines curve and wind
Flaxen plain becomes jagged stone
Sunset gives way to twilight
Gives way to deepest night

There the adventure begins

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 25, 20188:51 am

Bryce Canyon Fire, Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Winnowing

Armies are not raised
From the masses
But rather winnowed
With fear and anger
And the will toward violence
The way rain and runoff
Separates the stones
From the sediment

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 24, 20182:47 pm

Stagecoach Motel, Route 66, Seligman, Arizona, United States of America

Past and Present

I take the old roads
The back roads
The scenic routes
In the off-season

I love the places
Which carry the past
Into the present

Better still, the places where
Past and present co-exist

Without need for justification

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 23, 20188:05 am

Plume, Tatntalus Mountain Range, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Invisible Wind

A cloudless sky
An invisible wind
But for the snow
Dragged over the peaks

A roiling plume

Like my mind
As I’m buffeted
Not so steadfast
As the rocky peaks

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 22, 20189:22 pm

Howe Sound Sunset, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

For Earth Day

When the moon and planets align
In the darkness that is not yet night
I am reminded that this home
This Earth
Is one preciously small orb
In a vastness sporadically dotted
With preciously small orbs
An infinitesimal in the infinite
Just like me
And I rejoice
In just how perfect that is