Tag: nature

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 14, 202211:50 am

Horseshoe Bend

This little peal of green
Winding through the desert red
Cut its path through rising rock

Stone once silt when waterborne
Now to the sea writhes its decay
Perhaps again to stratify

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 13, 20229:10 pm

The Depth of Time, Mukuntuweap, Zion National Park, Utah, United States of America

Mother Nature: Earth’s Artist in Residence

Beauty sculpted
With the softest tools
The utmost patience

Beheld by a mind
For a fleeting moment

Recorded for a moment more

While the sculptor
Chips away

Her pieces ever
Works in progress
Not a one complete

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 11, 20227:17 am

Hard Rock Cradle

Hard rock cradle of the canyon
Fluffy down comforter in the sky
Below, a river flows
Brings all I see and need to life

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 1, 20227:39 am

Sunset, U.S. Route 93, Great Basin Highway, Great Basin National Park, Nevada, United States of America

Relief ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #321

The rippled land
In golden light
Where shadows fall
Before the night

Such lush relief
Did storms reveal
Time’s watercourse
Shapes Earth’s appeal

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 27, 20226:07 pm

Haystack Rock

A seductive rock
On ocean’s edge
Half the day
Surrounded by the tide

Attracting thousands
Nature’s iconic monument
To a monumental coastline

In time with the waves’ ungentle caress
They saunter near, then scramble back

This flightless flock of sandpipers

Photographs and selfies
Arm-in-arm and hand-in-hand

A deep breath in, a longer one out
The calm that comes on any shore
Where the surf rumbles and sighs

Some may say it’s the rock
But the rock is a draw as any other draw
A pier, a lighthouse, beach chairs and gazebos
It is the sea which helps us remember ourselves

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 17, 20227:00 am

Dust Storm

Sometimes
Life moves at a pace
I cannot keep

Or rather
Life moves
I simply do not

And in my disastrous stillness
The dust storm rolls in
Without hesitation

To Roll
Over
Me

Move or don’t move
Retreat or don’t retreat
Seek cover or…

Let
The dust
Take me

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 16, 20227:00 am

Nature’s Dance

I like to imagine
Mother Nature kicking back
In her Adirondack
Enjoying the majestic dance
Of her creation
Choreographed with geological rhythm

The chuckles she must chortle
As all her little creatures
Scurry about the stage
Like so many Keystone Kops
In a silent era comedy
None more ridiculous
Than we

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 6, 20227:20 am

Lost in the Fog

The monuments we erect
To assure ourselves
Of our own greatness

Barely breach
The lowest cloud

Of nature’s modest creation

While the proof
Of our existence

Is a contrail adrift in time
Dissipating in the empty sky
Of infinite space

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 22, 20229:26 am

On a Cold Day, Porteau Cove, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Cold Reminder

On the cold days
I’m reminded
That most days
Life is a struggle

A struggle
To stay warm
And keep fed

To love
And be loved

A beautiful struggle

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 19, 20227:00 am

Epiphany, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, Porteau Cove Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada

Remembering Epiphany

I squint into the sun
And existence becomes
A blackened vignette
With a sparkling path
Leading directly
To a burst of light
In a cloud-strewn sky

A vision I recognize
From those times of connection
When I was one with everything
And the knowledge of all existence
Seemed not only plausible
But within my grasp

Heady times

And I wonder
Was I mad then to believe
The epiphany was real

Or mad now to have let it slip
From experience
To memory
Now a personal myth