Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Believe it or not it is Spring in Australia. But some trees in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula are totally unaware of new seasons and new skies.
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Totally Optional Prompts ~ Kyrielle
The distinctive feature of the kyrielle is that it has a refrain - the final line of every stanza is the same. The name comes from the kyrie, a form of prayer in which each section concludes with the same words: "Kyrie eleison", meaning "Lord have mercy upon us". Repeating whole lines within a poem is sometimes known as rime en kyrielle; this phenomenon is found in quite a number of verse forms.
The verse form called the kyrielle is usually written in iambic tetrameters. ~ Guide to Verse Forms
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Grey dome of mystery
Elusive history
I long for wings to fly
It's time to sail new sky
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Seagulls in flight over Dromana
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To fly into the light
Beyond the tears of night
I yearn for dreams on high
It's time to sail new sky
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Pic by Gemma wiseman ~ Seagull walking in the track treads of a surf rake at Dromana
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Show me some marked out way
In shifting sands of day
I need some steady tie
It's time to sail new sky
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Lovely light at Arthurs Seat
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Please bless me with some sign
Some hope of joy divine
I pray new dawns are nigh
It's time to sail new sky
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THE MEANING OF AUTUMN
WINTER is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist
WINTER is the fire, simmering lonely in 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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6 comments:
Hi Gemma, stunning photographs. I think they are wonderful.
The weather in Queensland has been very cool and wet and stormy too - in particular some terrible storm damage in Brisbane - like a cyclone!!!!
These were great. I can't even pic a favorite.
:-)
Poetic shot and text. Beautiful.
I love your refrain! It's different and uplifting. and your photos are gorgeous! I keep working on my photography skills but it's just not my forte, unfortunately.
Yeah, great refrain!
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