Tag: nature

Olympus OM-2 by Patrick JenningsAug 26, 20183:36 pm

Pix to Words ~ Volume I :: Harmony in Word and Form

Pix to Words Magazine ~ Volume I

I promised myself way back in 2015, “I’ll publish a book based on Pix To Words if I reach 500 followers by the end of the year.” I did, but I didn’t, so now I finally am. Motivated to provide something people could take home from my gallery exhibit, Harmony in Word and Form, now showing at Gallery Bistro, and also something to share a bit of the gallery experience with those who can’t possibly make it to the gallery, I present Pix to Words Magazine ~ Volume I. The magazine features most of the photographs, poetry and stories appearing in the gallery exhibit, with a couple additions thrown in.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 9, 201812:15 am

Lovely Lichen, Hope Slide, British Columbia, Canada

Organic ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #147

Nature draws her lines
In chaos and complexity
Mathematics and some chemistry
Laws of physics yet unbroken
By laws of beauty she has written

Laws which I do well to heed
If my art is to succeed
Nature I do not exploit you
Nor wrest the brushes from your hand
It’s not my mind to alter your decision
But offer you my humble vision

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 1, 201811:14 pm

Just a Hint of Blue, Clouds and Sky, Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada

Clouds ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #146

In the brooding atmosphere
Of patterns woefully disturbed
I seek glimmers of possibility
I optimistically call

Hope

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 21, 201812:04 pm

Beyond the Mountains Blue, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Gondola, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Desire

Where the filtered sun
Casts mountains blue
Across this deepest valley
Beyond a distant shore
The clouds so busy gathering
While here the skies so clear

But there I know she waits for me
Climb down, then sail, then climb again
Enwrapped within her arms
Perhaps by then the rain will come
Reverberant charms upon the tin
In rivulets down window pane
Lay with her in such sweet refrain
Flames crackling in the hearth

I feel the heat
Hot on my flesh
Alas it’s but the sun
It fuels a fire
Within my heart
Upon this rocky bluff

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 20, 20183:24 pm

Sun Burst, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Gondola, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

After the Oil Boom

Well I dreamed I saw the clouds
And the heat waves coming.
Wretched mad man on my mind
When the sun burst through the skies.
There was my heart there singin’ in the light
But I felt like I could cry.
Look at mother nature on the run
In the twenty seventeen.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 14, 201811:29 am

Granite and Conifer

Enrapt
Enwrapped
Granite and conifer
Cloud and sky
And I
Reverent
In the rain
And rapture
Of nature’s glory

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 2, 20188:34 pm

Monochrome Canyon, Bright Angel Point, Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim, Arizona, United States of America

Time and Change

I stand on the edge
Of a hundred million years
Changing, changing, changing
Always change

One score and five thousand years ago
Human eyes came to see
Human hands learned to make

All our grandiose change
No match for nature’s hand

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 29, 201810:50 am

Ghost Gums MacDonnell Ranges Station, Northern Territory, Australia

MacDonnell Ranges Ghost Gums

Twisted
Gnarled

Rock and bough

Resilient
Adaptive

Outback
Beauty

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 27, 201811:16 pm

Mittens and Buttes, Monument Valley Navajo Park, Arizona, United States of America

Three ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #141

Just the three of us
Spirit, mind and body
On a journey through
Space, time and possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 26, 20189:06 am

Hoodoo Impressions, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Revealing the Wall

When you pulled the ground
Out from under me
Why were you surprised
It left a wall you could not climb