Tag: Utah

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 20, 20187:00 am

Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Plateau

I dig down
Unpack another layer
I dig down
Unpack another layer

Another
Another
Another

How many layers deep?
I see only the next

Unpack another
See another

Unpack
Another

Until I don’t want
To see anymore
Unpack anymore
Dig anymore

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 18, 20188:46 am

Horseshoe Bend, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona, United States of America

Bend ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #162

The bends oft
Obscure the end
Yet go
I must
And like the river
Wend
Until the end
Is sure

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 28, 201811:03 pm

Goosenecks State Park, San Juan River, Utah, United States of America

Trust the Flow

I make my way
Down winding path

Though much I seem
To go astray

Just trust the flow
To lead the way

So long as I
Keep steady craft

Row with the main
And level stay

I’ll reach the calm
Upon this raft

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 27, 201811:16 pm

Mittens and Buttes, Monument Valley Navajo Park, Arizona, United States of America

Three ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #141

Just the three of us
Spirit, mind and body
On a journey through
Space, time and possibility

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 26, 20189:06 am

Hoodoo Impressions, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Revealing the Wall

When you pulled the ground
Out from under me
Why were you surprised
It left a wall you could not climb

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMay 25, 201811:45 am

Time and Love

Time and love
They’ve etched your lines
Deep into me

Poetry by Patrick JenningsApr 25, 20188:51 am

Bryce Canyon Fire, Hoodoos, Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, United States of America

Winnowing

Armies are not raised
From the masses
But rather winnowed
With fear and anger
And the will toward violence
The way rain and runoff
Separates the stones
From the sediment

Poetry by Patrick JenningsMar 27, 20185:40 pm

Hoodoo Fire

Spark
Flame
Ember
Fire
Burning
Sear
Sizzle
Licking
Blazing
Conflagration
Scorched

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJun 29, 20172:31 pm

No Stony End

Young conifer
Which set down roots
Some few years ago
But now exposed
By desert rains
And so it seems
To cling to Earth
While off beyond
The hoodoos laugh
At upstart pine

You see
The mighty columns say
This once was plain
Withered away
Exposing us
The roots of Earth
Soon enough
More rain will come
Erode the land
You’re rooted on
Until you fall
Then come to rest
As dust beneath
Our hoodoo feet

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 3, 201711:23 am

Divine Sunset

I clamber up
The edge of the world
Turn to see the world below
Awash in the light of a failing sun
Fallen far below the dais
On which I stand
Like a god
Lord of all below me
Conqueror of the heavens

A car parks beside mine
Released from its confines
A small boy, about five
Runs over to stand beside me
For a moment surveying our domain