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Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 9, 20247:00 am

You With The Sad Eyes, Motorcycle Rickshaw Driver, Chandni Chowk Market, New Delhi, India

Half a World Away

You with those sad eyes
In the sallow light
Backdropped by electric blue

And me with the glass eye
Recorder of moments
Context only by supposition

I could not ask you then
What countenanced such sorrow
Or was it just an unguarded moment

Emotion apparent in an unintended gesture

I am left only with guesses
While you cannot even know
Someone reflects on this moment

From half a world away

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 27, 20207:00 am

When Strangers Become Friends, Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi, New Delhi, India

When Strangers Become Kin

Among the many magics
Of brandishing a camera
Amongst a crowd of strangers
Is that someone, always
Steps out of the crowd
Offers an intimate glimpse
Into the nature of their being

In that instant of friendship
The camera records a kind of kinship
Which is eternal and universal

I think every photographer must know
We are all much more alike
Than we are different

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 9, 20187:00 am

To the Delight of Tourists, Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi, India

An Intimacy Between Strangers

There is a certain kind of inner smile
Which accompanies a smile
Shared among strangers
An intimacy to be treasured

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 23, 201711:05 am

Intimate Strangers

Straddling the concrete median
Westbound on my left
Eastbound on my right
Congested endless streams

Faces and life stories
Pedaled by
Captured in moments
Of pixels

Then a camera
Pointed back at me
Capturing a moment
Of a moment being captured

Our cameras lowered
A smile, a laugh, and a wave
We four strangers
In a moment of intimacy shared

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