Tag: Pic and a Word Challenge

Landscape by Patrick JenningsOct 21, 20183:37 pm

Giants, Badlands, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Giant ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #158

There I stood, at the feet of giants, myself measuring no taller than the smallest of their toes, and standing as high in my own shoes as possible. One giant leaned down, only slightly, though the Earth trembled beneath his shifting weight. He peered at me, squinting, as I would to better observe an insect trundling across my boot. A snort. Dismissive. The earth heaved again as he rose. The atmosphere rumbled with his voice.

“I beg your pardon if this offends you,” he began, it seemed to me, in rather gentle tone for a being known to have bellowed up a hurricane, “but you seem mighty small for something which calls itself ‘King of this land and all the land you’ve ever known,’ some small trifle claiming to command us, the Brethren of the Mountains, as his subjects.” Gentle, perhaps, but not without a significant undertone of malice.

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 JenningsOct 7, 20183:09 pm

Love ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #156

In the last lingering moment of daylight
Beneath an everlasting beacon
I know my love for you

Bright as the nearest star
Steady as the lighthouse beam
Vast as the ocean
Persistent as the waves
Breaking on the enduring rock

Sometimes a caress
A lullaby sussurus
Sometimes a storm
A tempest of ecstacy

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 30, 20189:13 pm

Two Uyghur Girls, Kashgar, Xinjiang, China

Girls ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #155

Rage rises

With every
Repetition

“Boys will be boys”
They say

All around
The world

Meaning
Simply

Girls are made
To be had

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 23, 201811:09 pm

Badlands Erosion, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Limbs ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #154

Limbs
Intertwined
Breath
On my wrist
Breast
In my hand
Eyes
In a dream

Asleep
In my arms
Your back
On my chest
The trust
This implies
The love
In my heart

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 16, 201810:58 am

Emptiness ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #153

On the prairie
Where the land is wide
And the sky is high and pretty

Gravel and dust and grain
Roads that go on forever

In the mountains
I feel diminutive
Until I climb
And conquer one
Stand on top of the world

What is there to conquer here
But a thousand miles
Of horizon

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 9, 20189:01 pm

Coast Mountains Wildfires, British Columbia, Canada

Fire ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #152

I cannot see the fire
Still, the sky betrays its presence
As yet the flames present no danger
Though the possibility be mentioned

So am I reminded
A threat may seem remote
Or weak in its intention

But a threat it is
Toxic in its notion

I do well to heed an atmosphere in tension

Detail by Patrick JenningsSep 2, 20182:20 pm

Detail ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #151

Enrapt in detail
Subtlety and nuance
Lovely and enthralling
I follow the forms
Savour the textures
Delight in the harmonics
Of ever-changing repetitions

Lost in the detail
Context and meaning
Evasive and fractured
I swirl in a sea of the minute
Fruitlessly distracted
Diverted from the present
By endless possibilities

So must I be alert
To the scale of perception
Find the balance between
A piece and the whole
A detail and its meaning
An event and its context

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 26, 201812:27 pm

Himalayan Foothills Sunrise, Kunjapuri Devi Temple, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Gratitude ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #150

The sun rises into a cloud-softened sky
Gentle foothills roll lazily to a distant horizon
A solo journey through an ungentle darkness ends
As I arrive in the light I realize
I am no longer alone, was never really alone
That no one arrives in such light
Entirely alone

I am struck by the depth of gratitude
Rising like a sun with my own inner light
For the guidance, support and encouragement
Offered by family and friends and mentors
And the generous kindness of strangers
Who have made of themselves
Friends

I stand here
In the light
With my platoon
Ready to take on
Anything

Thank You

Olympus OM-2 by Patrick JenningsAug 14, 20189:30 am

Harmony in Word and Form

I apologize, everyone, for being AWOL these past few weeks, and for not posting Pic and a Word Challenges. But I do have some exciting news.

All of my creative energy has been directed toward completing preparations to hang a gallery exhibit featuring photographs, stories and poems selected from Pix to Words. Very exciting! And a much larger task than I allowed myself to believe.

Lots of new stuff coming as a result. When things calm down after the opening (perhaps a bit during … stay tuned to the Facebook Pix to Words page if I can manage some live feed from the reception.)

Pic and a Word should return August 26th, the day after the Opening Reception.

Thanks for your patience!

And wish me luck. =)