AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Cornucopian Smorgasboard ~ for Sunday Scribblings













Silk roads are desperate scribbles
In vaults of Siberian wastelands
~
Lush purple grapes tantalise longings
Reaching for love trapped on a twig
~
Exotic rain is the hound of drought

A bounty for deprived senses
~
Halloween passions are subway thrills
Locked in the orange of carved smiles
~
An apple a day keeps living on
Wormed by the charms of sick Sirens
~
The riddles of Sphinxes beguile
A traveller's scrabbling amulet
~
A mournful, lonely tolling bell
Recalls the feast of the Last Supper
~
In the last hour
If I could stop time
My nemesis would be
In the kitchen
~
I carry a secret identity
Plus baggage
Here
~
The fortune cookie
Weaves a spell of
Google magic
And gives me a slippery
Second chance
To terminate
That sinking feeling
~
Any kitchen
For me
Is like
The inspired town mouse and
The crushed country mouse
~
(I am not the inspired one)
~
My deepest darkest
Superstitions
Materialise
In any fridge space
In any kitchen ~
My shoes demand
Change
Urgently
~
My dream job
My dream journey
Is a chronicle
Of wings
And ocean
Anywhere
But a kitchen
~
Destination is always
A secret identity ~
A spicy hero ~
And that is the thrill
Of the dance
~
Dear diary
My first act
As queen
Of the world
Would be to grant
An eternity
Of three wishes
Now and then
Laced
With the wicked
Yummy
Passion
Of chocolate
~
P.S. The blog Coolayla has a wonderful description of a Pumpkin Festival in Australia that has nothing to do with Halloween. It is celebrated in May each year!

8 comments:

paisley said...

i cannot believe how many of the prompts you were able to incorporate into this piece... a virtual cornucopia indeed!!!!!

Anonymous said...

A visual delight! I like the title so much!

Pirate Princess said...

Very clever indeed!

Anonymous said...

Great piece! We both had similar ideas except I made all the prompts into a story not a poem!

Sherry said...

Gemma this is incredible and I am truly amazed at how you were able to weave so many prompts into this piece!

rel said...

Gemma,
How you absorb your world and let it spill out on paper is amazing. for a few moments I was captvated by your cornucopia.
rel

Tumblewords: said...

A superb smorgasbord - each taste better than the previous! Lovely!

Anonymous said...

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