Tag: postaday

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 16, 20167:00 am

Whistler Valley

Day comes to end
In hyper-blue
And gleaming amber

Icy wind rips
Up the valley floor
Churning turquoise and obsidian

Beneath the placid azure
Of a witness sky
Waiting for the stars

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 15, 20167:00 am

Tantalus Mountain Range, Near Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Incomprehensible Perfection

I’ve spent all my life
Learning the craft of creation
But how can mere reason
And artistry compete
With the simple gestures
Great and small
Of nature

I have just the small talent
To capture in image
And evoke in word
An incomprehensible
Perfection

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 14, 201610:27 pm

Whistler Mountain and Alta Lake, From Rainbow Park, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Whistler and Alta

The winter wind
Whisks down the valley
Holding the ice at bay

But the ducks
Won’t have much longer

To paddle in open water

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 14, 20167:00 am

Armchair of Golden Dreams

Sometimes I just sit back
In my armchair of golden dreams
To take in all the splendour
The view from there is wonderful

To a practitioner of Tendai
Everything is wonderful

~ Saichō
9th Century Japanese Buddhist monk
Founder of Tendai school of Buddhism

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 13, 20167:00 am

Snowfall, The River of Golden Dreams, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

The Fate of Snowflakes

Snowflakes make their way
Down from clouded sky
Carried by the fateful winds
To find a place of rest
Perhaps atop the matted grass
Or come to know the branch and bough
Where they paint such pictures pretty

Others find their way to gentle currents
Return to form from which they spawned
Then seek again the path to sky
Transform, renewed, to lightest flakes
And try once more for beauty’s grace

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 12, 20167:00 am

Winter Dream, River of Golden Dreams, Meadow Park, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

Winter Dreaming

Revelling on Golden Dreams
Where languid winter river flows
Beneath soft flakes fluttering
Alighting like sweet Angel’s down
Upon needled bough and barren branch
Or cloak the water where it’s still

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 11, 201611:59 am

Geometry, Morrocan-inspired Lattice Screen Wall and Light

Geometry ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #67

With arc and sphere
With line and square
I fix the world
In sight and mind
The world I build
Becomes this kind

While Nature’s skilled
Geometry
Is rarely square
Organically
Math more complex
So beautifully

Fujifilm X-T2 by Patrick JenningsDec 10, 20166:41 pm

Carved Stone Face in Snow, Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

Patterns of Existence

Lao Tzu’s words can be pretty difficult to wrap a Western, science-educated mind around (my own struggle is continuous), beginning with understanding the term “the Tao” itself.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 10, 20167:00 am