Tag: Varanasi

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 28, 20177:00 am

Cultural Cacophony, The Ganges River (Ganga), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Culture Feast

The frame is full
With teeming activity
Colour and humanity
My eye
Cannot find a place to rest

And then it does
But only for a moment
Until something else
Pulls it away
In this visual cacophony
Of a culture traveler’s feast

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 27, 20177:33 pm

Mother and Daughters, The Ganges River (Ganga), Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ritual and Playful

Mother and daughters
New moon Ganga ritual
Splash! Splash! Splash! They’re cleansed

Playful ritual
Paddling on styrofoam
While mother washes

Fujifilm X-T2 by Patrick JenningsJan 26, 201711:17 am

Woman and Candle, Ganga (Ganges) River, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

The Angel

The flotilla of pilgrims and tourists makes its way up the Ganges River, leaving behind the Ganga Aarti, the nightly Worship to Fire ceremony at Dashashwamedh Ghat, on the riverbank. Our boat passes another, a candlelit vision aboard it.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 26, 20179:16 am

A little music, Street Art, Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India

A Little Music ~ A Little Dance

I remind myself

Everyday:

A little music
A little dance

Even better:

A lot

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 26, 20178:17 am

A boy and his bicycle, Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India

The Look

Forgive me
Young man
For startling you
With my camera

I heard
But did not hear
You exiting the door

And my eye
Was on a scooter

For which I’d waited

Poetry by Patrick JenningsJan 25, 20177:30 am

A Boy and his Kite, Kashi (Old Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh, India

A Boy in the Shadows

I step
From the shadows
Into the light
With the innocence
Of a child
Ready
To take flight