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, April 3, 2008

Poetic Pieces of Life ~ Fortune Cookie

Pic by digitalvirus on Deviant Art ~ Fortune Cookie Adventure
~
An adventure awaits you around the bend
Think of a rushing rollercoaster
Hurtling to a blind corner
Try to hold the tracks
Thrilling hope
Wish
Dream
Earth is near
Crushing flight
Try to hold the maps
Sailing to a new country
Think of a luxury smooth liner
You will step on the soil of many countries
~

Pic by amandaway on Deviant Art ~ My Favourite Fortune

4 comments:

paisley said...

nice gemma.. is that like a fiba nd a reverse fib... or did you just plan it out that way on your own... either way it looks and sounds marvelous.....

poefusion said...

Gemma, this is really good. I love roller coasters and could truly envision this easily. And, the way that you ended the piece on foreign soil is great. I would love to travel someday. I agree with Paisley that this poem looks like a fib/ reverse fib or a nonet/ reverse nonet. Either way, I really like the way it looks on the screen. Have a nice day or possibly night where you are. See Ya~

Gemma Wiseman said...

Thanks for the great comments!

I followed the base idea of a nonet, but started with 11 syllables, reduced by 2 per line, then increased 2 per line till the last line was 11 syllables again!

Don't think there's a name for it yet!

Gemma

Karina said...

Beautiful! And what great fortunes too. I always get the sort of fortunes that aren't so much fortunes as they are statements. ;-)

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