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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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Dirty Laundry ~ Easy Street Prompt #153 and Poefusion #14

Pic from Easy Street ~ Prompt #153 + Mantras in response to Poefusion #14
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I am not just a few plain wires waiting for you to string your clothes
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I am not just a clothes peg longing to keep your spun dries in place
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I am not your clothesline conveniently hidden in your backyard
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I am not just here to fix your dirty laundry.
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I am that displaced tree
Nudging out the wires
Determined
To grow
To reach for
The real sunlight
~

5 comments:

rel said...

Gemma,
We are all individuals in our own right, that's for sure. That's how it should be!
rel

poefusion said...

Love how you have given the tree a voice and room to grow toward the sun. How beautiful. Like Rel said we are each our own. Have a nice day.

Anonymous said...

now those are awesome... beautiful and encouraging.. it's all about the clothesline.. i just recently wrote abt the clothesline too.. i shall ponder a few mantra overnight and write soon myself...

paisley said...

very nice grouping.. i am still pondering my mantra... i have several i refer to in my personal life... but i cannot seem to string them together yet....

Anonymous said...

You have given many women (and some men, I'm sure) a voice via your tree. This was quite well thought out.

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