Tag: national parks

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 25, 20171:09 pm

Sunset from Whistlers Mountain, Jasper Skytram, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Hurdles

With every sunset
I am reminded
There will always be
Another hurdle
And another opportunity
To clear one

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 22, 20176:58 pm

Infinite Shades of Grey, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada copy

Infinite Grey

I’m not sure
Whether I’m alone now
Because I’m tired of getting hurt
Or I’m tired of hurting others
Somewhere I lost track
Maybe it’s both

I’m not sure
What needs to change
What needs to heal
What I need to fix

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 20, 201710:41 pm

Rainbow in the Spray, Athabasca Falls, Athabasca River, Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada II

Rainbows ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #101

Sometimes

Even the appearance of a rainbow
Cannot dispel the darkness

So I plumb the darkness
Seeking the rainbow within

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 20, 20171:41 pm

Mountain and Clouds, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

The Fog of Pain

I remind myself
That the pain is just a fog
Cloaking the mountain

The wind, soon enough
Will blow the fog away

And there will be I, the mountain

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 13, 20175:12 pm

Smoke Valley, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

What the Veil Reveals

I want to know the world
With the clarity and vibrance
Of a postcard
But that is not the world

I remind myself
The fog sometimes reveals
A scale and depth
Often obscured by detail

Landscape by Patrick JenningsAug 13, 201711:49 am

Cairns, Athabasca Glacier, Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Mortality ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #100

Grey.

Smoky.

The smell of a campfire.

But the nearest fire set a hundred thousand trees alight, a hundred or more kilometers away. I wonder, was that one lightning? A cigarette? A carelessly managed fire?

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 12, 20175:08 pm

Strange Imaginings

Sometimes
I wonder
If I know this planet
At all

Of course
I often manage
To imagine something
Stranger still

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 7, 20178:31 am

Storm Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Shadows in the Sky

Shadows in the sky

Where the sun
And the clouds
And the smoke
Interplay

Where the river
And the rails
Run in parallel
Display

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 22, 201611:27 am

Sandstone Domes, Watarrka National Park, Kings Canyon, Northern Territory, Australia

Fairy Tale Lands

I live in a world
Of fairy tale lands
I thought only possible
In the imaginations of
Novelists and filmmakers

Until I went exploring

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 28, 20162:08 pm

Tranquil River, Murray Falls National Park, Queensland, Australia

Time Traveller

I travel through time
Not with feats
Of technology
But as an enterprise
Of imagination