Tag: time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 26, 20225:08 pm

Wispy Skies, Zion National Park, Utah, United States of America

Will of the Wisp

My presence in this moment
Is but a wisp of a cloud
In a windswept sky
A drop of rain
In the eons of torrents
Which gouge a canyon
From a plateau of stone

Try as I might
I cannot grasp
The monumental meaningless
Of my own existence
Leaving me to acknowledge
The incalculable significance
Of drawing a single breath

Here am I
An infinitesimal ephemeral wisp
In the cloud-strewn sky
Of existence
Claiming my glorious place
In the magnificence
As if a passing moment in eternity
Were eternity itself

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 14, 20227:00 am

Beauty in Stone

Gentle lines
In weathered stone
A beauty marked
By time

Patinaed, etched
Distressed
By life and the elements
Beautiful all the more

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 7, 20227:00 am

Cadence ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #301

The world moves
In its own time
And I in mine

A dance
A rhythm

Obstinate
Relentless

Cadence
Unique
To my mind’s
Perceiving

And should I not exist
To observe
As sun surrenders sky
To the stars

Would there be time
At all?

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 6, 20227:20 am

Lost in the Fog

The monuments we erect
To assure ourselves
Of our own greatness

Barely breach
The lowest cloud

Of nature’s modest creation

While the proof
Of our existence

Is a contrail adrift in time
Dissipating in the empty sky
Of infinite space

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 31, 20215:10 pm

Curvature of the Earth

I stand atop a high place
Marvel at the curvature of the Earth
A reminder that I stand on the surface
Of a very small sphere
In an infinite space

I look deep within
Marvel at the unknowable infinity of being
A reminder that I stand as a presence
Manifested of an essence
Without dimension or time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 14, 20214:42 pm

Nature's Architect, Fortress on a Hillside, Portland, Victoria, Australia

fortress ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #274

towers and citadels
ramparts and parapets
fortress on the hillside
set afire in the morning sun

battles fought
war rages on
death visits here
still more to come

one strong heart
with will of stone
resolve of iron
but moments late

her final breath
his broken cry
their eyes now glazed
with death and grief

reign of tears
a rain of years
for one still form
her light now passing

towers and citadels
ramparts and parapets
fortress on the hillside
with darkness do the losses come

time withers
all good hope
but for love’s
illuminance

five hundred years
lives pass along
’til one strong heart
revived by dreams

a love once lost
was born anew
he holds the hand
of one once dead

knows the heart
which then fell still
now beats again
in true love’s breast

time’s never still
nor linear
where once was love
love’s never lost

towers and citadels
ramparts and parapets
fortress on the hillside
rememb’ring love can’t be undone

Poetry by Patrick JenningsFeb 15, 20212:44 pm

Autumn's Lingering Hues, Pacific Spirit Regional Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada copy

Vibrance ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #266

Recall the vibrance
Once displayed in many hues
Now no more than trace remains
Though brightness scattered
Here and there

Decay sets in
Drains true nature
Of its lifely due
Thus am I left
With naught but mem’ries

Fading fast

Remiss this guard
Of summer past
Which lingers still
In so few leaves
Fallen to the forest floor

There soon enough
Back to earth
Will they be drawn
And all that was
Will then be gone

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 27, 202011:41 am

Time and Patience, Horseshoe Bend, Colorado River, Page, Arizona, United States of America

Patience and Peace

I remind myself
Time and water
Carved this canyon
From solid rock

Though patience
And softness
Cannot resolve
Every problem

The peace flowing
From their practice
Bears a reward
Of its own

As I watch
The sun set
Upon the stone
The river cut

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 7, 202011:51 pm

Touching, Time Exposure of some Random Netflix Show

Touching ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #256

In that blur
Of existence

When space becomes time
And time becomes space
When love becomes all possibility
And possibility infinite
And time timeless

I will find you
And always will

Because this is the thing
Between you and I
The connection without reason
The being without purpose
Except that we are always

Together

Whether far apart
Or side-by-side
Decades may pass
Without a touch
Though we are always

Touching

In the end
That is all we need know
About the unknowable

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 3, 20207:00 am

Anachronism

When the architecture
Makes a passenger jet
Lifting into the sky
Seem like an anachronism
From a time passed
So very long ago…