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Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 7, 201711:42 pm

Grand Canyon National Park

There are no greater engineers
Than time, physics and chemistry
Set to work upon this small sphere
Of atoms hurtling through space

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 7, 20177:08 pm

Sun Shower, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Winters Coming

Ten thousand years
Since last snow fell
On southern lands

Ten thousand more
When what’s now green
Was naught but fields of ice

Or so the legends say
Antarktica
Where all tribes came

Hard to see
In my mind
The numbers
Of the past

What once were billions
Flight reduced
To millions
In the exodus

From the desert sand
Earth had become
To this plot
Of icy rock

Poetry by Patrick JenningsDec 1, 201712:43 pm

Wild Pacific, Wild Pacific Trail, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Seeking Serenity in Turmoil

In turmoil
I seek serenity
Not by blocking out

The noise
The chaos
The violence

But by finding within these

The song
The rhythm
The transformation

Therein I discover
The beauty in all things

Therein awaits
Serenity

Therein am I
Transformed

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 30, 201712:14 pm

Last Colours, Jericho Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Savouring Discovery

In the serenity
Of a quiet fall day
I savour the colours
Of transformaton

In the emptiness
Of my quiet mind
I discover the contours
Of being

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 29, 20171:12 pm

Ferocity

This witness to ferocity
Discovers his serenity

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 29, 20177:00 am

Coal Black Sea, Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada

Monochromatic Storms

Coal black sea
Slate grey sky
Snow white foam

Keening wind
Reaches bone

Ferry lists
Returning home

Wistful sigh
Beauty storms
Quiet mind

Soon refilled
Mundane time

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 28, 201712:42 pm

Tug and Barge at Sunset, The Strait of Georgia, BC Ferry, Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Take me home, now, wayward road

Take me home, now
Wayward road
I’ve set the course
For hearth and friends
Who knew me well
‘Fore all that changed
In the lands beyond
Our common sense

But changed have I
Beyond a scope
I can explain
No people of
This world the same
Yet all alike
In ways I’ve seen
Which never learned
From books or schools
But only when
I took the road
And spanned the gap
In time and place
To meet them in
The worlds they’ve made
Sat at their hearth
And listened, then

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 24, 20177:00 am

Long Beach, Pacific Rim National Park, Tofino, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Islands

I am this Island
In a shallow sea
Beneath the waning sun
Waves rolling by
Gently to the shore

The ebb tide comes
The Island transformed
Another rock
Beside the ocean
On a shoreline of nothing
But rock and sand

Poetry by Patrick JenningsNov 21, 20172:00 pm

Barbed Wire, Digitally Manipulated Photograph, Scoured Granite, Athabasca Glacier, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

Barbwire and Corn

Headlights play
Over barbwire and corn
And I remember a bus driver
On the long way around
During spring semester
All our windows closed
His open wide while he
Takes deep nasal breaths

“Ahhh!”
He theatrically intones
Before another whistling breath
“Smell that fresh air!”
Musky dung beyond barbwire
Making us gag
As we pass his home
In a small development
Surrounded by farmer’s fields
“Mr. Abbott!” sang the chorus