Tag: nature

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 29, 20177:00 am

Coal Black Sea, Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

Monochromatic Storms

Coal black sea
Slate grey sky
Snow white foam

Keening wind
Reaches bone

Ferry lists
Returning home

Wistful sigh
Beauty storms
Quiet mind

Soon refilled
Mundane time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 28, 20177:00 am

Bald Eagle Sunset, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Sunset Watch

I watch over you
In the darkest night
Until the sunrise

And when the darkness
Comes again

There am I

A beacon for you
To find your way

For you are the light
Which made my own life
Bright as a beacon

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 27, 20177:00 am

Amphitrite Point, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Soaring

In dreams I soar
A gull on the sea wind
My bird eyes see
Where the air rises
Catch the updraft
Up high into the heavens
Then swoop and sail
Unfettered by land
Or gravity
Loudly skree with the bliss

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 26, 201711:20 am

Vancouver Storm Clouds, English Bay, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Storm Clouds at Sundown

We small creatures
Of no small hubris
Construct our wonders
In the shadow
Of glories profound

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 12, 20178:00 am

Sun and Smoke, Saskatchewan Crossing, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Smoke ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #113

Oh my!
The sun!
The sun
This brilliant sun!

Such hopeful sight
Is breaking through
The smoky sky
Now blue above
And gold below
Backlit, the tone
Of tungsten haze
Then, lower, emerald
Of the trees
These, gratefully
Have not (yet) burned

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 11, 201712:47 pm

Sink Lake, Yoho National Park, Trans Canada Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Capturing the Finite in Infinity

A shallow lake
A rippled mirror
The forest slumbers
On its bed of rock
Beneath a cloudy blanket

And I
Might have driven by
Then this moment lost
To the forever
Of infinite unconscious

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 10, 201710:28 am

Molten Sky

This molten sky
Enveloping
Sweet nature’s towers
In cloudy flames
Of fiery grey
Which leap and dance
Yet leave no mark
But for the rain
Which splatters me
And like those fires
Burning orange hot
Renews the life
On mountainsides
Then when it’s past
This monochrome
Reveal the sun
To cast its light
On verdant slopes
With cotton peaks

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 5, 20178:00 am

Maligne Lake, Queen Elyzabeth Ranges, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Repose ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #112

I paddle on the water, rippley
The lake upon my shoulders, heavy
This effort bringing me repose
When following where nature goes

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 30, 20174:20 pm

Squirrel

Sometimes, like a child, I
Squint my eyes
To blur the world
A greener green
And crimson reds
To another realm go I

There I see
Some small creature stand
Up on hind legs
With flicking tail
It looks at me
And chirps a bit

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 16, 20171:44 pm

Shadow Selfie, Ming Sha Shan, The Mountains of Singing Sands, Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China

The Uncluttered I

I miss the desert
Its clarity
Its stillness
Its silent challenge

I miss the uncluttered I
Standing alone
In an expanse of sand