Tag: shoreline

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 16, 201810:13 am

Born of Tempest, Long Beach, Pacific Rim National Park, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Born of the Tempest

Some things
Are not meant to be seen
Under a blue sky
In the full glare of the sun

Some things
Were born of the tempest
And their beauty lies
In the storm

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 3, 201811:42 am

Seagull at Melfort Bell

A seagull cries
O’er the buoy bell ringing
The lapping tide
Is a gentle sigh

While I gather mussels
To steam in seasoned water
For dinner and wine

With you, my love
While boats and whales

Ply the narrow channel

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 20187:20 pm

This Little Buoy

This little buoy
Between the rocks
Bobs and clangs
In gentle swells

A narrow draft
‘Tween reef and land
One red one green
The channel marked

At night
Her light
Bright green
Is seen

Green on the port
To find the port
Green to starboard
Then sail the seas

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 14, 201811:15 am

Weathered, Frank Island, Chesterman Beach, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Weather ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #122

Broken sleek
The hardened shore
In answer to
The winter storms

Here life conforms
To wind and sea
Which cleaves the stone
With crushing wave

Landscape by Patrick JenningsNov 15, 20177:00 am

Beyond Horizon's Edge, Amphitrite Lighthouse, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet, British Columbia Canada

Beyond the Edge

She came here, beyond the edge, because she was beyond the edge. Here, she could look straight into the tumult, because it was not her tumult, not her upheavals, not her crashing into the walls. It was not her tragedies.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 22, 20165:30 pm

Late afternoon, Pacific Coast Highway, Northern California, United States of America

Breakers

Wash over me
Cleansing waves
Free me
From this detritus
Of life’s
Discontent

Ricoh RF 500 by Patrick JenningsDec 16, 20158:12 am

The Great Ocean Road, Near Portland, Victoria, Australia

Nature’s Chisel

Sand

Grain by grain
Wave by wave
Tide by tide

Laid down

Layer upon layer
Until the shoreline

Rises

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 23, 20157:00 am

Shrouded

Shrouded in the grey
Of sea mist
Of fog
Of cloud

I sit in the dunes
Shrouded there too
By the tall dune grass

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 6, 20157:41 am

Being of the Night

I am a being of the night
My energy rises when
Illuminated
By moonlight
And starshine

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 4, 20158:31 pm

White washed

I want to be washed pure
The way a rocky shoreline
Chases all the blue from the ocean
Leaving a roiling, effervescent whiteness