Tag: travel

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 17, 20193:06 pm

Confinement

Bound
In heart and spirit

Lost
On a forkless path

Stop
Look for a door
A ladder, a rope

Turn
Seek another path
Upon retraced steps

Wait
For alternatives
To appear

Move
Follow the instinct
Which began this path

Despair
There is no despair
Only tenacity

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 201910:26 pm

Shadow Maker

Sometimes the light
Is too bright
Too hot to bear

So I shelter
In a shadow

Of my own making

I see this now
Without judgment

The light remains
The shadow is
Temporary

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 15, 20192:19 pm

Blue

I get the blues sometimes
Not that there’s anything wrong with that
Blue was my favourite colour as a child
Even now, in the blues, there is a beauty

And options

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 14, 20192:10 pm

Risk Cacophony, Hotel Continental, Tangier, Morocco

Risk ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #183

Where might have been cacophony
Strokes live within the harmony
Such vital vessel filled
To the edge of overflowing
Yet some subtle restraint
Where plaster once was white
Vibrant colours paint
A whole which comes across
So beautifully

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 13, 20197:00 am

Palau De Les Arts, Ciuitat De Les Arts I Les Sciences, Valencia, Spain c

Go Fish

It startled him

The monumental lines of architecture
Seemed to flex
As a bow drawn by its string
Then paused there
Taught, straining
As if for a steadying breath

The release
Was even more startling
And he felt the shock wave
When the discharged tension
Shook the earth
As the mammoth thing
Quite simply
Leapt from the ground

Untethered as it was
From gravity
It swam lazily
Through the thin atmosphere
Toward a horizon
It would soon enough
Disappear beyond

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 12, 20197:00 am

Windows

Windows from some unknown world
Unto some other unknown world
None which I have ever known
And may not ever know
Though with imagination
Images gained from books and film
I construct a room to serve
The needs of sultans and imams
Rich tapestries and silken rugs
Exotic woods and metals
Carved and cast exquisitely
Servants and the visitors
Pilgrims and the diplomats
Bustling in the courtyard splendour
All in reverence to the will
Of God and those who know his ends
Within these windows and their view

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 11, 20199:42 am