Tag: The Ganges

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 28, 20179:08 pm

Fire, Flowers and River, Ganga Aarti Ceremony, Parmarth Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Fire, flowers and flow

In the moonlit night
Release flowers and fire
Into Ganga’s flow

For pilgrims and believers
A gift to Ganga, river goddess
Holy of holies
Source and purifier

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 26, 20171:25 pm

Beach Cows, The Ganga Banks, (Ganges River), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India copy

Context ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #80

To understand
And embrace
Paradox

I recognize
The limits
Set by context

Which, I’ve learned
Confines me
Not reality

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 19, 20176:16 pm

Ganga Leaves the Himalayas, (The Ganges), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Daughter and Mother

At Rishikesh
Where the Ganga
Leaves the mountains
Completing her journey
To womanhood

From the daughter
Roiling and playful
Down the narrow valleys

To the gentle, fertile
Fulsome matriarch
Mother of the plains

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 9, 20177:00 am

Laxman Jhula Sunset, The Ganga (Ganges River), Rishikesh, Uttarakhand

Finding Presence

There is nothing so grounding
So inspiring to me
Nothing which brings the moment
Into my own presence
Like sunset

Except
Perhaps
Sunrise

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 3, 20179:39 am

Ganga Calm

Travelling a land
Of extremes in high contrast
Of crowded bustle
Brown noise and car horns
Confined in concrete chasms
With slivers of sky

I arrive in Rishikesh
Where the Ganga
Gently exits
The Himalaya

Heave a sigh
Breathe deeply
And collect myself
On the riverbank

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 26, 201712:35 pm

Golden, The Ganga, (Ganges River), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Golden ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #76

Oars dip gently
Into Mother Ganga
A calm, steady rhythm
Like a deep breath

While the bells clang
Insistently
In golden Varanasi

Where the priests
Celebrate Shiva

With a dance of fire

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 25, 20178:44 am

Bhagwan, The Ganga (Ganges River), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Bhagwan on the Ganga Banks

Saffron
Colour of fire
Bringer of light
Burn away ignorance
Flame of insight

Saffron
Colour of purity
Symbol of abstinence
Purge the tainted
Cleansing ritual

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 19, 201712:12 pm

Trimurti Gurudatt Ashram, Ganga, The Ganges River, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

River ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #75

Ganga falls from Himalaya highs
To lap at feet
On sandy shore
In Rishikesh
Where it and I
Find some small tranquility
In the turmoil
Of inexorable change

Ganga, take me down
Down to distant sea
Where I become the drop
Which is, itself, the sea
And learn eternal peace
In oneness with the One

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 28, 20177:00 am

Cultural Cacophony, The Ganges River (Ganga), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Culture Feast

The frame is full
With teeming activity
Colour and humanity
My eye
Cannot find a place to rest

And then it does
But only for a moment
Until something else
Pulls it away
In this visual cacophony
Of a culture traveler’s feast

Fujifilm X-T2 by Patrick JenningsJan 26, 201711:17 am

Woman and Candle, Ganga (Ganges) River, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

The Angel

The flotilla of pilgrims and tourists makes its way up the Ganges River, leaving behind the Ganga Aarti, the nightly Worship to Fire ceremony at Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the riverbank. Our boat passes another, a candlelit vision aboard it.