Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Front of Dromana Hotel ~ Mornington Peninsula
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3WW prompt #CV ~ deliberate + intervene + nourish
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Haiku Friday prompt
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Weekends intervene
Work tensions watch in the wings
Time out for time in
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Hotel fortitude
Deliberate numb sunset
Artificial joy
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Celebrate night life
Wines nourish blurred visions till
Return to sunrise
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THE MEANING OF AUTUMN
AUTUMN is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter
AUTUMN whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key
AUTUMN is an introspective season, when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul
- Gemma Wiseman
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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- A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
- Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
- Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
- The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
- Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
- Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
- Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman
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8 comments:
I enjoyed those haikus! That looks like a charming old fashioned style pub. So that may be your Friday night haunt? Have a drink for me! A Corona thanks. With a wedge of lime :)
Bad Tracy...now your talkin' my language...but it does look like a grand ol'pub, but there is something seedy about the word hotel to me. In my little town we had many grand hotels, as our town was once a major stop on the Mississippi for the paddlewheel boats. Then as the lumber and the shell businesses began to fail, they turned into flop-houses for the poor and prostitutes. Most of them have been torn down and a pitty too, as I have been in many of them salvaging and they were once fabulous monuments to a flourishing community and era. The 60's and 70's raised them all for the modern, sleek, StarTrek look...so sad that we have to demolish our historic past for some cheesy constuct with little character.
Should one intervene
deliberate destruction
to nourish our souls...
Have a wonderful day friend...
sharon
My eyes focused right in on that stained glass door. I love stained glass. :-)
I'll look out for it next time we're on the Peninsula.
Your previous post was a great sky shot.
Loved these haikus! The first one really speaks to me, and I love the last line.
Wonderful haiku! They hit the nail on the head as we head into the weekend. I would love to go stay in an old county inn. Alas I don't get too. Dinners and meetings to attend. I don't know if that is yuck or yeah.
Especially loved your last haiku. Glad you were finally able to have them posted. I'm still having difficulties, not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Hope you are enjoying your weekend!
time out for time in... really nice. :)
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