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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Friday, March 28, 2008

Spring ~ for One Single Impression


A spring is a naked healing place
Where souls find neutral hot waters
Where bathing in glowing earth embers
Becomes a crystal light journey
~
Crystal Journeys
Celestial song
In dawn colours
~
Bathing in the spring waters
Of morning
~
Siesta balm
In afternoon seas
~
Dreaming in the marmalade
Of middays
~
Lonely hour
In lonely spaces
Drunk on dark wines
Of midnight
~
Medicinal vapours of the earth
Are the breath of eternal spring
Relief from the pain of winter’s chill
And the hurt of a stony kiss
~

FOOTNOTES: In Arkansas the National Park Service estimates the hot springs in the "Valley of the Vapors" have been used for at least 10,000 years and respected as an honored and sacred place by the Indians. It was believed the springs were the home of the Great Spirit who in using His breath brought forth the healing warmth of Mother Earth. These springs were neutral ground for the Indians where warriors from all tribes could rest and bathe in peace, a refuge from battle. ~ Peninsula Hot Springs (pic from website)

In 1979, natural hot mineral springs were found deep underground on Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula. On a 17 hectare property in Springs Lane near Rye, the 50ºC waters rich in healing minerals flow to the surface and into the thermal pools.

Peninsula Hot Springs opened in June, 2005.

6 comments:

paisley said...

i love the verse that refers to the hot springs....

qualcosa di bello said...

such a beautiful day threaded through these verses...i am especially drawn to the 'drunk on dark wines of midnight'

Anonymous said...

I think you are the only one who responded to the prompt with the image of a hot springs. Thank you for sharing this. I love the line, "where souls find neural hot waters".

Raven said...

what a lovely series of poems... and I enjoyed learning about the hot springs too. Thank you.

storyteller said...

Ah … a ‘take’ on ‘spring’
I totally overlooked!
Lovely poetry ;--)

Thanks for sharing the information about the 'hot springs' along with your wonderful poetic images.

Hugs and blessings,

SandyCarlson said...

These are wonderful lines:

Medicinal vapours of the earth
Are the breath of eternal spring

Thank you!
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