Tag: time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 10, 201911:31 pm

Valley Flow, Maligne Valley, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Valley ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #174

Through the valley
Between the rocky mounts
Where days go by
Too fast to count

Then what remains
But moments lost
In timeless frame

I let them go
And count no more

Just live them all

In endless flow
So none pass by

For none remorse
Nor row against
The river’s course

The ripples
And the rapids play
The challenges
Of every day

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 27, 201911:15 pm

fraser river pilings, steveston, british columbia, canada

Vanishing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #172

As the sun
So the pilings
So the day
So my life

In a whir of calm
And failing light
The river
Never stops

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 14, 201911:23 am

query, alphabet ball sculpture, new west public library, new westminster, british columbia, canada

Time and Beauty

Burnished
Pitted
Patinaed

Oh
The many beauties
Of ageing

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 27, 20188:30 pm

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

Curtain Call

Beleaguered pier
Time chastened
Weather beaten

A formation
Of pilings
Long past utility

Though still
They throw
A striking pose

Just before
The curtain
Falls

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 17, 20188:17 am

This Wee Continent of Life, Lichen, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada

Beauty Unremarked

This wee continent of life
Entwined in a small living sea
All of it ancient beyond my ken
I could not count out the years
In all my time

But the years of consciousness
I could count
In just an afternoon
And my own years
Rattled off in seconds

In the vast pre-history
Of consciousness
This beauty unremarked

But do my remarks
Or those of others
Make the beauty so?

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 8, 201810:03 pm

An Ancient Beach

I think of a beach
Half a billion years ago
Petrified in a moment of flux

And the creatures
Which skittered there
Having barely left the sea

I think of a wave
And the littlest living things
Awash in the foaming ocean

Not so unlike
The littlest living things
Swishing over my feet in the surf

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 30, 20189:27 pm

Vanishing Point

Once, there were days

Many days
When I had nowhere to go
And all day to get there

Now I seem to be
Everywhere at once
But nowhere at all

All the time

Tag: time

Valley ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #174

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Vanishing ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #172

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Time and Beauty

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