Tag: Utah

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 12, 20227:00 am

Monument Valley & Goosenecks State Park, Near Mexican Hat, Utah, United States of America

Details Details

I watch you
Taking in the wide oxbow landscape
A thousand feet deep
While I photograph the small details
Of tumbled stone and distant valleys

If you could embrace
The vastness of space
Then even a galaxy
Would be a minor detail
In the landscape of infinity

And I?
Not even a speck

To speak my insignificance
Demands more consideration
Than my infinitesimal displacement
Of time and space deserves

And yet
Here are we
The infinitesimal
Contemplating the infinite
Which I suppose
Is big enough
For me

Perhaps
Even…

Divine

Like the way a river
Has carved this earth
For millions of years
And left a canyon here
To pique our wonder

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 10, 20228:44 am

Valley of the Gods Sunrise from Moki Dugway, Utah Highway 261, United States of America

Morning Glory

Arrives the dawn in golden glory
Sunlight’s kiss good morning

Rise ye
Rise ye

The universe is calling

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 6, 20229:22 am

Penetrated Canyon, Zion -- Mount Carmel Highway, Zion National Park, Utah, United States of America

Impenetrable

Shield above
Wall below

Safely nestled in the comforting green
Of my impenetrable canyon

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJul 2, 20222:20 pm

Boxed In

Boxed in
Egress blocked
Walls impenetrable

But a blue sky
Offers promise

Possibility beyond

So I seek alternatives

Unknown paths
Improbable routes

The unexplored
May hide secrets
New trails to blaze

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 29, 202210:44 pm

Emerald Pools Trail, Zion National Park, Utah, United States of America

Trickle

Just a trickle
May restore
What once was lost

Love
Hope

Filling pools of possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 27, 202210:25 am

Winding Path, Goosenecks State Park, Utah, United States of America

Winding ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #316

The winding path
Which takes me well beyond
Desired goals
Has served me well

Offered possibility
Once well outside my ken
Comforts challenged
Bound’ries shattered

With every step astray
From oft trod trails
Discover unknown countries
Within myself

A lesser man would I be
Who’d stayed the straight and narrow course
To some place known
When I’d set out

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 26, 20225:08 pm

Wispy Skies, Zion National Park, Utah, United States of America

Will of the Wisp

My presence in this moment
Is but a wisp of a cloud
In a windswept sky
A drop of rain
In the eons of torrents
Which gouge a canyon
From a plateau of stone

Try as I might
I cannot grasp
The monumental meaningless
Of my own existence
Leaving me to acknowledge
The incalculable significance
Of drawing a single breath

Here am I
An infinitesimal ephemeral wisp
In the cloud-strewn sky
Of existence
Claiming my glorious place
In the magnificence
As if a passing moment in eternity
Were eternity itself