Tag: travel

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 22, 20167:00 am

Rocky Shoreline, Pacific Coast Highway, Northern California, United States of America

In a time before…

In a time before consciousness
When there was only
Physics and chemistry
When the Earth was only
Atmosphere and rock and ocean

There was the great sea of hope
Dashing upon the rocks
Settling in little pools
Where intrepid molecules linked
Carbon to carbon
With oxygen and hydrogen

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 21, 20169:53 am

Near San Francisco, Pacific Coast Highway, California, United States of America

Where the ends of earth and sea meet

I walk along the knife’s edge
Where the ends of earth and sea meet
Where the waves count out time
In the infinite coil of moments

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 11, 20164:35 pm

Surf, Near Pigeon Point Lighthouse, Pacific Coast Highway, California, United States of America

Life Adapts

Life adapts
To the harshest conditions
Some life even thrives there

Humans evolved
The mind to identify
The harshest conditions

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 4, 20162:35 pm

Xinjiang Autonomous Region, The People's Republic of China

On a hot desert highway

On a hot desert highway
No wind in the air
Half way across Xinjiang
I stop to photograph there

Loading up with a new roll
I click, advancing the film
The shot I take is of a shadow world
I’m astride my bike as if in another realm

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 4, 20167:00 am

Grasslands, The Mereenie Loop, Near Gosses Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia

Endless

There are places
Which seem an endless space
Like the land goes on forever
Into nothingness

But when I look more closely
Therein lies the beauty
I see the endless changes
And nothing less

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 3, 20165:27 pm

An Anonymous Celebrity

On a cycling tour of China
Across that vast country
I took a sidelong glance
At becoming a celebrity

In every little town
On every major street
No matter where I went
All eyes fell on me

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 3, 20167:05 am

Life & Death & Stone, Kata Tjuta (The Oglas), Northern Territory, Australila

Longevity ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #31

In a duel of longevity
Between stone and the living
I would never bet
On life not winning

Though life seems so
Ephemeral
While stone seems so
Well, eternal

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 1, 20161:54 pm

State Highway 95, West of Blanding, Utah, United States of America

On Leaving the Valley

Driving along the valley floor
Mountains and ridges rising above
So beautiful

Still, I always wonder
What’s on the other side?
What is the next valley like?

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 31, 20168:56 pm

The Mereenie Loop, Near Gosses Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia

Into Unknown Worlds

The land rolls
Like waves across the sea
Like the grasses
In staccato breeze

And there go we
Like sailors
Over the rolling land
Into unknown worlds

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 31, 201612:44 pm

Hoodoos, Goblin Valley State Park, Green River, Utah, United States of America

The Goblins’l Getcha

The Goblin phalanx
Swarmed the battlements
Filling the moat
With their bodies
Clambering over
The unbreachable wall
Each one a writhing ladder rung
For others to climb