Tag: possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 26, 20167:00 am

Turquoise Concrete Wall, Riverview Mental Hospital, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

Imagination

At first
I saw a concrete wall
Brightly painted
With a few cracks
Rain saturated

But on closer inspection
I realized
It was the surface
Of a turquoise planet
Where a river once ran
Along a cerulean canyon
Carved through southern aqua badlands

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 10, 20167:00 am

Golden sunrise

Like a gold bar
Perched on horizon’s edge
The promise of a new day rising
A wealth of potential
Infinite possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 6, 20169:58 pm

An Alien Beauty

I learn the bounds
Of my sense of beauty
When I see an alien eye
Rendering a familiar form

I am transported
To other worlds
To other dreams
To other insights

I learn my bounds
Then extend them
Beyond what I’d known
Or even dreamed possible

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 1, 20167:00 am

Harmony, Graffiti, Alley, Downtown Eastside, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Harmonious Lines

I find harmony
In places unexpected
A dirty, broken alley
Amid the smells
Of misery and death

Scrawled there
In pigment
And love
Arcs and lines
A language of hope
And possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 21, 20161:41 pm

Light Through the Lattice

There are multiple sources
Of light in this world
Not all of them
Illuminate my way

Of the rest, I’ve learned to follow
Not always the brightest
Nor the nearest

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 7, 20168:34 pm

Wilson's Promontory, The southernmost tip of Australia, Victoria, Australia

The Ends of the Earth

I have stood
At the ends of the Earth
And wondered
What lay beyond

Not the horizon
Where there is only
More water
And more land

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 19, 20168:00 am

Barn at Mulder's House, Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Windows and Mirrors

Windows provide
A view of the world
And the possibilities beyond

But often the most revealing view
Is when the light of the inner world
Reflects right back to me

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 14, 20167:00 am

Backlit Moss and Branches, Stanley Park, Near the Hollow Tree, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Tangle

In the tangle that is my life
Intertwining branches
Of my relationships
With others
With institutions
With responsibilities
With goals and aspirations

With the dreams
I only allow myself
At night
Curled safely
In my own bed

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 27, 20167:00 am

Moonset, Reef Point, Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada

Elixir of Possibilities

I drink in the night
That elixir of possibilities
Unimaginable
By daylight
With a thirst
Unquenchable