Tag: time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 8, 20176:08 pm

moon and road, Lakelands, Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada

Still not Still

A high country road
I stop beside a lake
Find a place which centers the moon
Wait for the headlights on the shore

Click open
Wait (tick tick tick)
Twenty seconds wait
Click closed
Repeat

I watch the universe
In subtle motion
While my camera freezes time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsOct 22, 20174:46 pm

Sunset Silhouette, Athabasca Glacier, Rocky Mountains, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada-Edit copy

Rock ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #110

A trail through loose stone scattered
Gouged from mountains, crushed by time and ice, now at rest
Here I, immersed in the hiker’s mindful peace
Each measured step a meditative breath

Though, could I see
The immensity of time
With the eyes of this still young Earth

Then peaceful moment lost
Turmoil and cataclysm of tumbling land

And in those eyes, what am I?

But a mote of dust
Lost to infinity

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 29, 20172:59 pm

Striata in the Smoke, Rocky Mountains, Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

A Billion Years of History

Tempting it is
To call this landscape
Barren

No life
No green
No creatures
Scurrying

(Or so it seems)

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 28, 20174:26 pm

Star and Space and Earth and Fire, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

A Helical Spiral of Indeterminate Tense

The sun is just a star
We chose to father us
The moon, our mother
Illuminates the night
And whispers lullabies
To soothe us
When the darkness
Frightens us

The Earth
Our home
Bedrock beneath
Space above
But solid ground
Spins us round
Cycles of life
Always turning

Poetry by Patrick JenningsAug 7, 20178:31 am

Storm Mountain, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Shadows in the Sky

Shadows in the sky

Where the sun
And the clouds
And the smoke
Interplay

Where the river
And the rails
Run in parallel
Display

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 30, 201712:39 pm

Old Man at Station, New Delhi to Agra Express Train, Uttar Pradesh, India

Fleeting ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #98

The express train rumbles through
town after town
station after station

Fleeting moments
in the picture of India
forming in my mind

Instants
out of the corner of my eye
stopped in time

Unfocused
Blurred
Impressions

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 19, 20171:37 pm

Tantalus Sunset, Tantalus Lookout, Sea to Sky Highway, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

I, not this I

A different Tantalus
Every viewing
Just like
Everything else

No thing
No one
No place
No moment
No emotion
No insight

Is ever the same
One moment
To the next

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 29, 20172:31 pm

No Stony End

Young conifer
Which set down roots
Some few years ago
But now exposed
By desert rains
And so it seems
To cling to Earth
While off beyond
The hoodoos laugh
At upstart pine

You see
The mighty columns say
This once was plain
Withered away
Exposing us
The roots of Earth
Soon enough
More rain will come
Erode the land
You’re rooted on
Until you fall
Then come to rest
As dust beneath
Our hoodoo feet