Tag: scale

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 8, 202110:24 pm

Not a Tree but a Twig, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States of America

Scale ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #268

A matter of scale

Not a tree
But a twig

Not a mountain
Nor a mound

But a small deposit
Of mineral Earth
Boiled up from below

Perhaps more beautiful
Than it deserves to be

Like the problems I face
And resolve
Every day

Small deposits
All growing into me

Perhaps more beautiful
Than I deserve to be

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Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 15, 20182:26 pm

Occluded Valley, Banff National Park, Icefields Parkway, Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada

Occluded ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #135

Oh the grandiosity
Of mountain ranges
Under cloudless skies

Though here demurred
Occluding smoke
Smothers valley’s depth and scale

Still, upon a closer look
The trees, a ridge
A jagged line

And then another
Slight serrated edge
The third and fourth both smoother still

So scale restored
I can imagine depth, at least
As this choking smoke occludes my breath

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Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 24, 20175:38 am

The Mosque, Taj Mahal, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

The Mosque

Staggered by the
Scale as much as the
Stunning Beauty

All the lines
Are precise
And pristine
As to seem
An architect’s model
Atop his desk

Then I notice
The tiny figures
Taking photos and selfies

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Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 30, 20164:21 pm

Mineral Mound, Mammoth Geyser Basin, Yello

A matter of scale

A twig
Or a tree
Mountain
Or a mound

Were I to climb out
Upon this leafless bough
Would I be
Of Lilliputian dimension

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Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 9, 201510:36 am

Earth or Mars?

Walking on which World?

Nature’s patterns
Repeat
In scale
And context

A Martian landscape?
Or an Earthly detail?

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