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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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Windshield Art

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Rainy carpark at Balnarring ~ 2
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Inspire Me Thursday prompt ~ Find the art in the everyday
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There is nothing more stodgy for the senses
Than being stuck in the car
In a carpark
Waiting for rain
To stop
~
But when the rain
Keeps raining
With relentless
Warped humour
Desperate minds seek
Desperate entertainment
~
It was then I discovered
The art of the carpark
~
Sweet crystal-like beads
Floated over
Metallic
Brick
And leafy tones ~
Swirling them into
Mysterious
Watercolours and
Leaving a blurring vapour trail
Of magical ghosts
~

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Rainy carpark at Balnarring ~ 3
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The skies darkened
The rain poured
The carpark became
A palette of daubed blots
From a frantic artist

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And beauty therapy
Evolved
It seemed
From nowhere
~

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Rainy carpark at Balnarring ~ 4
~

One obese piece of metallica ~
Resplendent in a jaunty
Piped
Corrugated beret ~
Frustratingly swelled my landscape ~
But I smiled
When I saw
The hint of
Winking
Fairy lights
In her windshield eyes

~

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Rainy carpark at Balnarring ~ 5
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Another metallic beast
Replaced her ~
And I felt the sense of some
Mythical
Cyclops
Watching me
With intense
Bemused
Interest
~

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i love looking at raindrops on windshields too. these are great photos!

paisley said...

oh gemma this was fun.. and this portion in particular,, had me laughing it was so perfectly descriptive....

One obese piece of metallica ~
Resplendent in a jaunty
Piped
Corrugated beret ~

*jean* said...

I especially love "the winking of her fairy lights..." what a wonderful post! a great take on the theme...i will never look at being in the rain in my vehicle the same...ever...thank you!

laurel said...

Love your poem!! I love your photos too. There's been many times where I thought something like that would make a good photo. Now I'm inspired to give it a go.

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