Pix to Words Podcast

Patrick Jennings

Pix to Words is a blog featuring the synthesis of my passions for photography and writing. I use my own photographs as inspiration for the words written there. This podcast presents readings from those posts and, often, commentary about them.

  1. 04/18/2024

    Lessons from the Wind ~ NaPoWriMo Day 18

    Day 18 of NaPoWriMo 2024 The drive down Newfoundland's west coast from L'Anse Aux Meadows, the site of North America's only confirmed Viking settlement, reminds me a little of California's glorious Mendocino highway. It was very windy that day.Better formatting in the post, along with an audio reading of the poem. * Lessons from the Wind * Wind bends the grasses Agitates the sea Riffling waves roll From water onto land While I remain unperturbed Steadfast Face into the wind As all around me Is buffeted And this This is how I want to be In the storm that is life Where I am disturbed By all that moves around me Perturbed by the rushing flow I take note Learn the lessons nature offers Resolve to become Resolute as the rocky shore        Firm against the crashing waves Supple as the grasses        Which bend then return to form Deep as the ocean        Calm beneath its roiling surface The wind Whispers in my ear Learn this And you will become peace ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About the photograph: Lessons from the Wind Highway 430, The Viking Trail River of Ponds Newfoundland, Canada Taken during travels, 2023 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A reading from the blog post: Lessons from the Wind: https://pixtowords.com/2024/04/18/lessons-from-the-wind/ From my blog Pix to Words: https://pixtowords.com/

    Lessons from the Wind ~ NaPoWriMo Day 18

  2. 04/17/2024

    The Fall ~ NaPoWriMo Day 17

    The Fall I fall A cascade Out of the mist Down the rocky narrows Seeking the still Cool waters Their calm But there is no pool Only the decline Until I am reduced To a trickle Then nothing

    The Fall ~ NaPoWriMo Day 17

  3. 03/11/2024

    Monkey Business ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #360

    A macaque shares the rooftop Lingers on the rail As the rising sun stokes The smoke laden atmosphere To molten amber It's tempting to believe The monkey is as enthralled as I With the iconic Red Fort silhouette But I rather suspect the bugger's Feigning disinterest in my breakfast They're clever that way To stray any further from the table Set lavishly with silver and crystal on white tablecloth Would invite a blitzkrieg And the confiscation of my croissant It's what I would do were our roles reversed Fortunately, this angle is perfect And near enough the table for deterrence As the shutter clicks I thank my little gray enemy For the perfect pose The croissant is delicious Slathered with raspberry jam I chase the last of it down with espresso While the disappointed macaque lumbers off In search of its own breakfast ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About the photograph: Rhesus Macaque with Red Fort Rooftop of Tara Palace Hotel Chandni Chowk (Old Delhi) New Delhi, India Taken during travels, 2017 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A reading from the blog post: Monkey Business ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #360: https://pixtowords.com/2024/03/11/monkey-business-pic-and-a-word-challenge-360/ From my blog Pix to Words: https://pixtowords.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Pic and a Word Challenge is a weekly creativity prompt offered  Mondays. With each challenge I provide a photograph of mine along with a single word. The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as  inspiration to create something -- a photograph, a painting, podcast, video, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, longread or just a few words. You are welcome to use these two elements (photograph and word) literally, thematically or metaphorically. If you create both images and words, all the better. Challenge rules are provided in the blog post link above. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Monkey Business ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #360

  4. 03/10/2024

    Contrast in Wan Light

    Sol yet plays coy with leaden horizon But there is enough magic In dawn's wan light To illumine the contrast  Of ancient glory Astride modern poverty While camera and I Find beauty in both ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About the photograph: Contrast in Wan Light Chandni Chowk (Old Delhi) and Red Fort New Delhi, India Taken during travels, January 2017 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A reading from the blog post: Contrast in Wan Light: https://pixtowords.com/2024/03/10/contrast-in-wan-light/ From my blog Pix to Words: https://pixtowords.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Contrast in Wan Light

  5. 03/09/2024

    Half a World Away

    You with those sad eyes In the sallow light Backdropped by electric blue And me with the glass eye Recorder of moments Context only by supposition I could not ask you then What countenanced such sorrow Or was it just an unguarded moment Emotion apparent in an unintended gesture I am left only with guesses While you cannot even know Someone reflects on this moment From half a world away ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About the photograph: You With Those Sad Eyes Chandni Chowk market (Old Delhi) New Delhi, India Taken during travels, January 2017 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A reading from the blog post: Half a World Away: https://pixtowords.com/2024/03/09/half-a-world-away/ From my blog Pix to Words: https://pixtowords.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Half a World Away

  6. 03/08/2024

    Existential Parade

    This parade of life This hubbub of trade Of needs Of desires This chaos of order And community And here am I Amid the throng In the moments between Want and have In the choices between Necessity and pleasure This is existential quandary Alone in my thoughts In a sea of solitary moments Each a universe Borne from a solitary mind Known only to itself These in parallel all With the essentials Of desire And necessity A flurry of universes Sharing a single dimension While in my universe The bodies of a thousand strangers Dance in cadence With the flow of trade A performance at once Exquisitely mundane and beautiful ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About the photograph: The Parade of Life Chandni Chowk market (Old Delhi) New Delhi, India Taken during travels, January 2017 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A reading from the blog post: Existential Parade: ⁠https://pixtowords.com/2024/03/08/existential-parade/ From my blog Pix to Words: https://pixtowords.com/

    Existential Parade

  7. 03/05/2024

    Moments I'll not Remember

    In motion I am still In stillness I am empty In emptiness I find no peace Hollow Haunted Vacant Amidst this familiar pandemonium I alone am solid Yet invisible Carrying as passenger A pain which pays no fare Answers no questions Offers no solutions The me of this moment None will remember Not even I But here The pain shuffles off Into the crowd And I will not remember it either ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About the photograph: Bicycle Rickshaw Driver Chandni Chowk market (Old Delhi) New Delhi, India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A reading from the blog post: Moments I'll not Remember: https://pixtowords.com/2024/03/05/moments-ill-not-remember/ From my blog Pix to Words: https://pixtowords.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [talk] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Moments I'll not Remember

  8. 03/02/2024

    Manifest Colour

    Suffocating smoke Smothers glimmer and glee Even the sun subdued To wan gloom Long before it sets Still I know colour lingers beneath Recall its effervescence Manifest the latent joy Until that rises above the horizon Of my heart  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ About the photograph: p>Latent Colour Rishikesh Uttarakhand, India Taken during  travels, 2017 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A reading from the blog post: Manifest Colour: https://pixtowords.com/2024/03/01/manifest-colour/ From my blog Pix to Words: https://pixtowords.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In 2017 I spent several weeks in northern India, visiting New Delhi, Agra (the Taj Mahal and Red Fort are there), and Varanasi (Hinduism's holiest city). The atmosphere all across the north was thick with seasonal agricultural smoke as the freshly harvested fields were set on fire in preparation for planting the next crop. By the third week, my cough had become chronic. A deep breath would start a coughing fit. Delhi's air quality regularly clocks in as the most unhealthy on the entire planet. But Agra and Varanasi seemed not much better. I left Varanasi earlier than I would have liked. It's such a spectacularly unusual and deeply affecting place. But the air was just getting worse, becoming so bad the morning of my departure the flight was delayed for a few hours due to lack of visibility. Rishikesh, at the base of Himalayan foothills, was a considerable improvement. But even there the smoke would, from time-to-time, creep into the valley, as it did the evening I took this photograph.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Manifest Colour
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Pix to Words is a blog featuring the synthesis of my passions for photography and writing. I use my own photographs as inspiration for the words written there. This podcast presents readings from those posts and, often, commentary about them.

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  • Creator
    Patrick Jennings
  • Years Active
    2024
  • Episodes
    29
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    © Patrick Jennings
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