Tag: Utah

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 30, 20157:00 am

Horsethief Campground, Moab, Utah, United States of America

Sun in the Night

Sun in the night
Awakens me from slumbers
Ascending into consciousness

Crisp and cold
The night air
Sounds, sharp and clear
Amplifying presence

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 26, 20153:15 pm

State Road 24 East of Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, United States

The Now of the Road

Nothing sustains the Now
Mile after mile
Like an open road
Through spectacular country

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 23, 201512:01 pm

Sunrise at Sunset Point, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Fire

One day in practice
Mind quiet
Body still
I sensed a flame
Burning deep within

As I turned
My mind to it
It rose
And rose again
Into a mighty fire

Startled
I turned away
Tamped it down
Put it away
Returning to my quiet

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 14, 20157:00 am

Sunrise, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, United States of America

And the sun rose today

And the sun rose today
Just as it has every day
For millions of years
Just as it has the hundreds of times
I’ve watched it rise before

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 13, 201510:03 am

Bryce Canyon National Park, Hoodoos, Utah, Inited States

Erosion ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #15

The intermittent rain comes down
Over millions of years, seems steady
Washing away
Uncovering
Leaving spires and hoodoos
Revealing forms underlying

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 3, 201510:30 pm

WIlly's Wiggle, Zion National Park, Utah, United States of America

The twisty-turny road

The best roads
The most interesting ones
Are the twisty-turny ones
With a steep incline
Or descent

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 3, 20157:00 am

Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Realms as beautiful as any I could imagine

Travel brings me
To realms as strange
And exquisite
As divine and beautiful
As any I could imagine
Or read about
Or discover
In the photographs of others

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 2, 201511:51 pm

Nature’s Cathedral

Nature was building
Cathedrals to touch the sky
Long before we
Ever came along

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 2, 20157:00 am

A world of my own making

I live in a world of exquisite beauty
Fantastical in form
Vibrant in colour
A sensual delight
Of textures
Rough and smooth

I live in a world
Of song and voice
Of love and wisdom

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 20, 201512:17 pm

Enigmatic Highway

Some paths I see from a distance

Where they begin
Is as much a mystery
As where they end

But their promise of adventure
Calls to me