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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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Upstairs ~ Easy Street Prompt #107



(Pic from Easy Street Prompts. For more inspiring pics for writing, see the Easy Street Widget on the sidebar!)

The mind is a wonderful attic of cobwebs and secrets
A few pools of knowledge
And the occasional raindrops of wisdom ~

It is where the skies celebrate a seasonal corroboree ~
Storms, sunlight, dawns and sunsets
Wallow in a crucible of delights and agonies
~
Upstairs
Is the treasure trove
Of peeling family portraits
And the moment when some child
Simply drifted through life
On a garden swing
~


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I have created a video using this poem.
The video represents how creative writing may live well in the digital world.
Click on the link on the right side bar!
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2 comments:

paisley said...

gemma!!! i love the site tyou got this from,,, i had never heard of it and i am ever so thrilled you have made it available to me here!!!! thank you...

i love the idea of the mind being the attic "of the soul" hall we say... oh my i might have to expound on that sometime myself!!!! brilliant!!!!

Jane Doe said...

I love this poem. I especially like the opening lines. And, I've never heard of this site either, but have bookmarked it. Thanks.

Jane

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