Tag: past

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 28, 201812:41 pm

Fall Alder Colors, Porteau Cove, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

A Little Sunshine in the Grey

On a grey day
I find a little sunshine
In some dark remnant of the past
Soon to be lost forever

On a grey day
I learn gratitude
For lessons of darkness
Which made of me a man
Who finds light
In the littlest things

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 24, 20182:47 pm

Stagecoach Motel, Route 66, Seligman, Arizona, United States of America

Past and Present

I take the old roads
The back roads
The scenic routes
In the off-season

I love the places
Which carry the past
Into the present

Better still, the places where
Past and present co-exist

Without need for justification

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 20187:00 am

Wake

Always looking forward
I move through the world
Oblivious to the wake
Left in my path
Until I look back
Into the shadowy past
And see the ripples
Of my existence
Disturb the worlds of others

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 25, 20166:40 pm

Shadows in Time, Joe & Aggie's Cafe, Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America

Shadows of Time

Shadows of time
Moments passed
Left to memories
In fading ink

Shadow event
Captured in light
Held in coloured silver
On fading film

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 9, 20167:00 am

Neon and Night, Blue Swallow Motel, Route 66, Tucumcari, New Mexico

A stop along the way

It was a stop along the way
A place between

Here

and

There

Holdover from a time
Of neon
Air-con
And movin’ on

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 4, 20167:00 am

Fraser River, Delta, British Columbia, Canada

Remnants of the Past

I leave behind
Remnants of the past
Which moulder and decay
In lingering neglect

When I return
To pick them up
They are no longer
The same moments

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 22, 201511:10 am

The Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Reflections

Reflections form a perfect circle
Bringing the past into the present
And the present into the past
I create a history I prefer
Reforming memories I prefer
To remember

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 24, 20157:00 am

Derelict Docks

The only thing
Unchanging
In a landscape
Of the past

Is the part of us
Which believes history
Is about the past

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 6, 20158:29 am

The Gas Bar

We always stopped
At the same gas bar
On the long drive up
To Grandma’s house

Ice cream, or a popsicle
An orange soda and a danish
While Gary tanked up the car
And made the windshield gleam