Tag: Pic and a Word Challenge

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 11, 202012:30 pm

Crosscurrents, Badlands, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Emergent ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #232

Sometimes the flow of events
Runs across the prevailing currents
Revealing both in high relief

Some will argue for the flow
Some will argue for the current

I remind myself

Step back to appreciate the whole
Evaluate the emergent patterns

Given an opportunity to observe
Beyond the confines of existing paradigms
Seek the possibility of a new way

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 4, 202010:06 am

Soft Light and Silhouettes, Food Islets, Near Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Nothing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #231

Soft light and silhouettes
Ambers and muted blues
Islands adrift in calm seas

And I in deep repose
Enjoy the gentlest of scenes

Bask in this moment of succulent nothings

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 27, 202011:15 am

Moonset Over Blackcomb, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Moon ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #230

In the cold quiet
Of a winter night
Me and the Moon
We have a chatter

Chunky frozen snow
Crunches underfoot
Shhhh, hisses the Moon

Be still
Listen

This I do

But all I hear is the Moon
Simmering on the snow peaks

Shhhh, Say I
To the full flood moon
Which does not know chagrin

Ahh, my friend
Replies the Moon
Would you have heard my sizzle
Had you never listened?

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 20, 202011:21 am

Which Door, Palacios Nazaries, Alhambra, Granada, Spain

Choices ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #229

In a world
Offering few choices
Of equal value

Either apparent
Or actual

Which is the better choice?

The options
Beg investigations

Which may or may not
Reveal the better choice
Apparent or actual

Should I choose
Not to decide

I still have made a choice

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 13, 202012:48 pm

Tapas Bar, La Rambla, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Otherness ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #228

Look back at normal
Which seems so very other
From our new normal

Familiar becomes
Other while other becomes
All too familiar

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 6, 202011:46 am

Kelly & Fiance, Marin Headlands over San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge, California, USA, January 3, 2020

Quarantine ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #227

Self-Isolation
Week Two; Day One; Six Days Left
I could use a hug

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 30, 20207:00 am

Running, Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon, United States of America

Running ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #226

In the presence of something
Much greater than I
I run

Not to
Nor from

Just for the pleasure of running

That greater presence makes me

Not lesser
Nor greater

Just aware
That the incoming tides of life
Offer little distraction to the pleasure of a run

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 23, 20207:00 am

A Glimmer Beyond the Surreal, Golden Gate Bridge, From the Marin Headlands, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Glimmer ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #225

I come to
At the shadowy peak
Of surreal darkness
Above a world both familiar
And utterly strange

Shrouded beacon
Reaches into the murk
Whisper of stifled radiance
Beckons

Illuminates
A serpentine road
Beginning and end uncertain

Strike out for the unknown
Keep faith the road reaches the bridge

Hopeful glimmer beyond

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 16, 20207:48 am

Awe, Pacific Coast Highway, Southern California Coast, United States of America

Awe ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #224

Ageless roil
Tide incoming
Hardened shore

I trundle along the escarpment
Of this thin edge of immensity
Immersed in the awe
Of all that I do not yet know
And the greater mystery
Of all that I will never know

Thus is the curse
And the beauty
Of consciousness

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 1, 20208:15 pm

At last, the coast, Douglas Family Preserve, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Connections ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #222

The sun ebbs
Drawing the sky blue curtain
Infinity revealed

Here we draw together
To feel the connection
Through all that is
To each other