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

Spellbound Dark Landscapes ~ for Writer's Island






Salvador Dali's study for the dream sequence in Spellbound;

Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 movie reflecting how past experiences reflect neuroses. ~

Sometimes

Inner worlds

Are skeletal chips

Of old bones

Defining some illusory form

Of eyes, ears

And maybe even a mouthline

(Poetic spaces are

The haunt

Of bated breath)

Strangely

Such mortuary specimans

Fascinate the intimate ghoul

In all of us

10 comments:

paisley said...

oh don't they tho... i for one crave a little darkness here and there!!!!!

Rambler said...

the picture of autumn which you have posted above left me spellbound :)

Anonymous said...

Ooo- not for me! Great piece though

Anonymous said...

After darkness, there is always light. Great picture!

Tumblewords: said...

Very thoughtful piece - I like the mystical feel and the lovely words.

anthonynorth said...

Darkness can be a good place. Prepares us for light, and gives us good ideas.

Jeques said...

That's why in my poem, "My Silent Confidant," I said:

"Goodbye my eventide, the dawn’s now here.

Your clinging shadows are all behind me,

‘Tis time I face the light I use to fear,

And welcome the promises of a new day."


Because darkness could sometimes be a temporary sunctuary, a dwelling place to prepare us to see and welcome the light.

I wish you well.

~ Jeques

Head Cookie said...

Great post. Good job.

Constance Brewer said...

Love the ending. and "Inner worlds

Are skeletal chips " is a neat image. Good Job!

Anonymous said...

We all need to experience the dark to appreciate the light. My senses feel sharpened after reading this.

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