Tag: unconscious

Landscape by Patrick JenningsMay 19, 20201:53 pm

Rearview, South on State Road 375, Nevada, United States of America

Choices

I make choices
Sometimes they’re wrong
Sometimes they’re right

Sometimes I know
Which way they’re going to go
Even before I make them

More often they go
The way they’re going to go
Long before I see the right or the wrong

I make choices
Sometimes I realize
Sometimes I don’t

Until they’re in the rear view mirror

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 3, 20189:04 pm

Kingpin, Daredevil, Marvel Comics, Netflix

I

Sometimes
This body
Like a prison
And I
Caught inside
Ponder on the things
This body has done
Without my approval
Without my conscience

Sometimes
This body
Like a trophy
And I
Caught inside
Ponder on the things
This body has done
Beyond my ability
Beyond my creation

And I
Wonder I
At who am I
Whether this body is I
Or some other I

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 11, 201712:47 pm

Sink Lake, Yoho National Park, Trans Canada Highway, British Columbia, Canada

Capturing the Finite in Infinity

A shallow lake
A rippled mirror
The forest slumbers
On its bed of rock
Beneath a cloudy blanket

And I
Might have driven by
Then this moment lost
To the forever
Of infinite unconscious

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 23, 201712:59 pm

Ganges Current, Laxman Jhula Bridge, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India

Current ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #97

With
Against
Over
Bypass

All the ways I’ve learned
To make my way in life
Unconsciously, they become habit
Forgetting the current running through it all

I remind myself
Stand on the shore
Breathe in the quiet
Observe the current

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 10, 20176:21 pm

Triangulated, Alphanumeric Sphere Sculpture, New Westminster Public Library, British Columbia, Canada

Hardened Shell

Cutting through the hardened shell
Of cognitive dissonance
And confirmation bias
Reveals a frightening realm
Of ill-defined objects
And unresolved detail

But better to crawl through
To this wilderness of consciousness
Than remain unconscious
Battering the cage
Of my own ignorance

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 5, 201712:07 pm

Moon Over Bowen, Howe Sound, Sea to Sky Highway, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Tides

I am a creature
Of my own thoughts
Of my own will
Of my own choice

Or so I think

Reminded by
The tides of seas
The tides of light
As moon circles I
As I circle sun

Not choice
Nor fate
All that is
Circles round
In ebb and flood

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 17, 201611:17 pm

PCH Sunset, Pacific Coast Highway, Near Santa Cruz, California, United Staes of America

Thin Veneer

I saw the Earth
Photographed from space
And was startled
By the whisper-thin atmosphere

I live on a smooth
Round globe
Of rock and water
With just a thin veneer of gas

Tag: unconscious

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