Tag: non-being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 14, 201812:39 pm

Pastels, Food Islets, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Pastel ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #157

The end of a soft day
In this pastel calm
My breath but a ripple
In the gentle breeze

Quiescent mind
Blood rhythms
Salt air rendered
Tide pungent

Ocean whispers
Sibilant
On the shoreline

Shhhh
Shhhhhh
Shhh
Shhhhhhhhh

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 24, 20181:43 pm

Encroaching Twilight, Jasper Skytram, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Peaks ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #145

I rise up
Above it all
See the world
Beyond the peaks
Touch the sky
Breathe in space
Feel the Earth
Beneath my feet
Await the stars
Infinity

Existence set
In time and place
Yet all at once
I’m every where
I’m every thing
I’m not at all

To be
And not
To be

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 15, 20182:22 pm

Boots

Inside
The chanting
The texts
Stripping away
Layer upon layer
Of being
Seeking
At the centre
The non-being
That is everything

Outside
The first layer

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 21, 201710:27 am

Moon over Bowen, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, Bowen Island and Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada-1

Infinity ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #88

I seek the moments
When the infinite
Becomes the infinitesimal

When the All
Which is everything
Becomes the One
Which is nothingness

I seek the moments
When paradox
Becomes awareness

Then am I filled
With the insight of mystery
The light of darkness
Then being becomes non-being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 10, 201712:11 pm

Alphanumeric Sphere, New Westminster Public Library, British Columbia, Canada

Angles and Hard Lines

I have made myself
A collection of angles and hard lines
A manifestation of steely pride

Still the shadow of nature
Falls upon me
With her supple forms
Her irregular grace

So I quiet the urge for being
Let her sunshine warm me
And become the bough
Blowing in the wind

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 11, 20166:55 am

Becalmed, Tyaughton Lake, Near Gold Bridge, British Columbia, Canada

The grey cool calm of existence

In the grey cool quiet
Of late afternoon
I paddle out into the lake
And just go calm

Calm as the air
Calm as the water
Resolute as the mountain
Free as the clouds

In a silence unbroken
But for the loon’s plaintive call
I sit
And rest

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 2, 20167:00 am

Light in the Trees, Seymour Demonstration Forest, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Light in the Forest of Non-Being

Sunlight cracks through the canopy
Spreading through the boughs
Falling to the forest floor
Where I sit
With the birdsong
And the whisper of the wind
Through rustling branches

All there is
Is me
And nature

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 27, 20167:00 am

Homestead, Marron Valley, Highway 3A, British Columbia, Canada

Becoming the Uncarved Block

All I ever wanted
Out of life
Was to carve out
Some small domain
In this wild expanse
I could identify
As me

Until
I discovered non-being
And realized
Being
Was not
All it was cracked up
To be

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 21, 20169:53 am

Near San Francisco, Pacific Coast Highway, California, United States of America

Where the ends of earth and sea meet

I walk along the knife’s edge
Where the ends of earth and sea meet
Where the waves count out time
In the infinite coil of moments

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 13, 20168:17 am

Horseshoe Bay and Bowen Island, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

A Moment on the Bay of Timeless Wonder

On the Bay of Timeless Wonder
I think of time moving forward
Ever so slowly
I think of time standing still

I think of time
As if it were
A thing
Of itself

As if it were
A force ravaging
My body
My memories