Tag: parks

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 15, 20201:17 pm

Afternoon Ride, Creekside Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Turn that is not Return

The world begins
To turn again
No longer still
Though somnolent, still

The long exhale
Following the deep, deep breath

The moment which moves
Between the change
And knowing
There is no going

back

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 12, 202010:19 pm

Point Sur State Park, Point Sur Lighthouse, Pacific Coast Highway, Big Sur, California, United States of America

Point ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #215

The edge of earth
Harassed by sea
A shield of stone
Protects the land
And the people in its lee

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 13, 201910:56 pm

Walking, Creekside Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Walking ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #204

The path is wide enough to share
I need not walk alone

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 6, 201911:16 pm

Child's Play, Creekside Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Play ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #203

I recall the world
Through my child-eyes
To see all the world
Is play

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 25, 20198:59 pm

Mother and Child, Bicycle Path, Creekside Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mothers ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #202

When I was a child
There was always a hand
Within my reach

When I needed reassurance
Or wandered too close to peril
To share the warmth of a loving gesture

Be supportive to others
Defend the vulnerable
Love unconditionally

The subtle lessons
A mother teaches her child
With unconscious intention

Her giving hand
Always at the ready
For mine to grasp

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 18, 20195:21 pm

Fractured, Bicycle Path, Creekside Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Fractured ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #201

All these moments
Become fractured memories
Altered with time

In a mind
Bent on manipulating them
To serve the present

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 11, 20197:57 pm

Wheels, Creekside Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Wheels ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #200

I roll along
With the flow
Some sunny Sunday
Afternoon

That’s all there is
Within my mind

Naught but the sound
Of wheels on pavement
As my body cleaves
The warm still air

The undulations
Of the path
The gentle song
My spirit sings

What else could I need

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 17, 20197:41 pm

For the Birds, Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Birdseed

All the world’s aflutter
For little girls
Fistfuls of birdseed
Their indiscriminate chaos

Such are the conditions
Of beautiful perfections

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 31, 201911:01 am

Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, United States of America

A Different Kind of Magic

Sometimes I squint
To smudge the world
Within my mind

Then paint upon
The softened scene
A different

Kind of magic

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 29, 201911:32 pm

Gravity

I see you
Seeing me
As she sees me
And he sees someone
No one else sees

And I wonder
What you wonder
About what I wonder
While he wonders
About whom I wonder

All this seeing
And not seeing
All this wondering
About wondering
It all turns
Upon its tail

While all along
The water falls
With a noisy whoosh
The flow always down
Gravity draws all to Earth
Still we are always free
In our myriad ways
To see what we will see
All the while wondering
Just what is up