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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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Fire Bride ~ Prompt #2 ~ for Easy Street Prompts AND Totally Optional Prompts


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Miss Havisham - Miss Havisham is the wealthy, eccentric old woman who lives in a manor called Satis House near Pip's village. (Pip is narrating his story many years after the events of the novel take place, there are really two Pips in Great Expectations: Pip the narrator and Pip the character—the voice telling the story and the person acting it out.) She is manic and often seems insane, flitting around her house in a faded wedding dress, keeping a decaying feast on her table, and surrounding herself with clocks stopped at twenty minutes to nine. As a young woman, Miss Havisham was jilted by her fiancé minutes before her wedding, and now she has a vendetta against all men. She deliberately raises Estella to be the tool of her revenge, training her beautiful ward to break men’s hearts. (Estella - Miss Havisham’s beautiful young ward, Estella is Pip’s unattainable dream throughout the novel. He loves her passionately, but, though she sometimes seems to consider him a friend, she is usually cold, cruel, and uninterested in him. As they grow up together, she repeatedly warns him that she has no heart.) ~ Spark Notes on "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

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20 minutes to 9
Time stopped
Frozen life
In Satis House
~
Heartbreak has nowhere to go
Once it is carved
Sharply in ice
~
One shoe
Graced the wedding foot
Lame
Yin and Yang
~
One soul
Turned karma into a weapon
Tame
Raw
Gullible
Innocent youth ~
A child soldier
Who never knew
The games
Of a child
~
20 minutes to 9
Is an eternal flame
Transforming
The phoenix into
A wrinkling
Parchment
Fire bride
~

6 comments:

paisley said...

gemma,, just want to let you know that the prompt on top this week might make a nice venue for this post... i know you put one up earlier,, but thats ok,, this is really good and i think given the subject matter everyone would enjoy it,,, and it would help to spread the word about the easy street prompt site as well!!!!

Anonymous said...

This poem is very good - I love your use of the prompt. I liked how you used "20 minutes to 9" a few times - it's a cool poem Gemma.

Tumblewords: said...

Lovely poem - your use of words is magical.

anthonynorth said...

Excellently done. I could almost see the mice nibbling at the wedding cake.

Linda Jacobs said...

This took me right back to ninth grade English class! I love the poem!

WH said...

This poem has nice sharp edges. The imagery is very energetic.

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