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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Saturday, December 6, 2008

Mystical Winter


Collage of night clouds, water and distant earth lights by Gemma Wiseman
For some unknown reason, deep dark clouds and the flickering waves of night lights always give me a sense of time travel through bygone winters and I feel flickering fragments of warm insights into the mystical.
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Poefusion's Friday Five prompt ~ debris + winter + vitreous + stark + limpid
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Limpid memories
Iced drinks celebrate warm days
I remember well
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Stark silent winter
Vitreous summer laughter
Barbecue debris
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Tree near Dromana beach, Mornington Peninsula
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

beautiful composition gemma. i love the black and white!

Eaton Bennett aka Berenice Albrecht said...

Your photos leave me breathless...beautiful! Your Haiku inspiring. :)

Thank you for your comment on my photo Blog. We live in a photographers paradise!

poefusion said...

Gemma, both haiku give way to a strong image but, that second one is my favorite. Your photos are great. They carry a voice all their own. Thanks for sharing. Have a nice night.

Rachel Green said...

Fabulous. Such a juxtaposition - I think I shall carry this with me all day.

paisley said...

wow... that first photo is amazing... you are getting sooooo good with that camera!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

yes gemma beautiful... there is something about the movement of water...

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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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