Tag: travel

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 6, 202410:11 am

Sunset III, Revelstoke Lake, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada

Blues ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #368

Blues run layers deep
Beneath an intoxicated heat
Rustling the lake with scattered breezes

No storm tonight
But ’round a distant point
Rough waters wait

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 18, 20247:00 am

Lessons from the Wind

Wind bends the grasses
Agitates the sea
Riffling waves roll
From water onto land

While I remain unperturbed
Steadfast
Face into the wind
As all around me
Is buffeted

And this
This is how I want to be
In the storm that is life
Where I am disturbed
By all that moves around me
Perturbed by the rushing flow

I take note
Learn the lessons nature offers
Resolve to become

Resolute as the rocky shore
Firm against the crashing waves
Supple as the grasses
Which bend then return to form
Deep as the ocean
Calm beneath its roiling surface

The wind
Whispers in my ear

Learn this
And you will become peace

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 17, 20247:00 am

Cascade, Western Brook Pond, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Canada

The Fall

I fall
A cascade
Out of the mist
Down the rocky narrows

Seeking the still
Cool waters
Their calm

But there is no pool
Only the decline

Until I am reduced

To a trickle

Then

nothing

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 16, 20247:00 am

Green on Granite and Gneiss

The green clings
Tenuous
Tenacious
To a billion years
Of granite and gneiss

And green grew only
For half of that

While here am I
Where the Earth collides
With itself
To raise mountains
From sundered plains

Now left to wonder
If dinosaurs and woolly mammals
Wandered landscapes
Much different than this

At Gros Morne
A place that just feels
Older than time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 15, 202411:34 am

Unknown ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #365

An unknown road
Into unknown lands

For the spectrum of possibilities
I strike a balance
Between fear
And anticipation

Then lean heavily
On the latter

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 14, 202411:59 pm

Pastels

This pastel sunset
So subtle in its beauty
No blaze of glory

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 12, 202410:22 pm

Love and Sunsets, Skyline Trail, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada

Sunset Lovers

I long for this experience of love
Moments of profound beauty
Shared by souls intertwined
In a beauty all their own

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 11, 202410:51 pm

Sunrise

Sunrise
Like my heart opening
To the possibility
Of you

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 5, 20247:43 pm

Waiting / Not Waiting

I wait my turn
Patience
As life streams by

Finding neither
Moment nor desire
To enter the stream

Faith in
Fate or serendipity
To sweep me into the fray

Content when
Reality
Makes no such demand

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 4, 20248:01 pm

Faces in the Crowd 12, Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi, India

Om Sai Ram

Oh Lord
Universal father and mother
Burn away the illusions of existence

Three friends
Astride two wheels
Alive in a single moment