Tag: storm

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 1, 202410:09 am

Serenity, Maligne Lake, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

The Nature of Serenity

I find serenity in nature
I discover myself in nature’s serenity

Whether paddling across a mountain lake
Ripples and clouds moved by the lightest breeze
A day like a peaceful sigh

Or standing atop an oceanside cliff
Face into the fierce onshore wind
Waves crashing against the rocks below
Rain and spray soaking my clothes

That’s the thing about nature
It has no agenda but to be
To be is a state of impermanence

Whether storm or calm
No matter
These are nought but conscious evaluations
Accompanied by prejudicial metaphors
Nature knows them
As it knows itself
Impermanence
Change

Nature does not accept change
Nature is change

As nature changes
It knows neither content
Nor discontent

I soak myself in nature
To learn its wisdom

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 20, 202210:37 pm

Sullen, Sullied Sky, Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, United States of America

Beneath A Sullen Sky

The sky like the snow
Sullen and sullied
The latter a victim
Of spring thaw

The collected detritus
Of winter storms
Revealed beneath
Retreating drifts

While the clouds
Speak with the voice
Of ill wind and
Malcontent climate

But the lake
Ahhhh
The lake sparkles blue
And even the worrying breeze
Does little but kindle its glimmer

A beautiful scene
After the ranger’s warning
There would be naught
But the clouds to see

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 18, 202212:57 pm

Perfect Beach Day

Many will argue
Or just stay home
But there seems to me
No finer day
For a stroll on the shore
Than one marked
By a chill spring wind
Under a deep grey sky
Spitting rain and mist
In the temperate rainforest
That created the magnificent
Oregon coast

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 2, 20167:00 am

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

Cyclone

Tossed by the storm
While the cyclone raged
Inside my heart
Inside my mind
Circling ’round
The centre

My spirit
My soul
The eye
Of my
Being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 16, 201611:08 am

Sea to Sky Highway, Howe Sound, Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada

The Calm After

As the calm dusk
Settles in
After

The sky breaks through
Promising a better day
Tomorrow

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 2, 20161:35 pm

A Stormy Dusk, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Howe Sound Dusky Blues

Dusk descends
Hard and fast
Like the rain

Clouds
And mountains
Mingle

In a waning light
The camera records
As a monochrome

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 23, 20158:14 pm

A canyon of brown and pine

There is nothing quite like
A canyon of brown and pine
Turned white
Enveloped, still, in the grey storm
Passing through
Leaving its wintry gift

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 12, 20159:16 pm

Peaceful Sound

In the calm after
Clouds trail listlessly
Lying low in the valleys
Or spread thinly in the sky
While the sun’s last rays
Glimmer off the glassy ocean

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 24, 20155:21 pm

Trust, Poster on Corrugated Tin, On location for Fringe, Season 5, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

No calm in her eye

She was like a hurricane
Though no calm in her eye

Instead, a depth
Intensity
Tragedy

A wake of human debris
In her path

People by Patrick JenningsMay 10, 201512:41 pm

One Word Photo Challenge: Storm

The crowd awaiting the next express boat mingles restlessly on Tha Thien Pier which lightly but sharply pitches and yaws, jostled by the water, itself kicked up and churned by the river’s heavy boat traffic. I’m snapping photos of a group of boys swimming and splashing in the unfathomably filthy waters of Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river when the boat arrives, sliding just past the pier before going into full reverse. The corner of its tail bangs up against the pier with a shudder, then stays pinned there as the boat’s pilot finds another gear of reverse. People begin leaping to and from the boat’s large, railingless rear deck, now level with the pier, but still only in contact with it at one corner.