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, January 31, 2010

Ticket to Fly


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ At the Enchanted Maze Garden, Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula are many fanciful sculptures.
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Carry on Tuesday #38 ~ This week our prompt is a quote from Martin H. Fischer:
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
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At times
I feel like
Pressed metal
Dangling on a string
A mobile
Victim to fickle winds
But I know that
While I have breath
I can energise my wings
And fly
My very being is the ticket to
The greatest show on earth
Earth itself
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5 comments:

Rinkly Rimes said...

What an excellent illustration for verses about a mobile! I loved the idea of you being blown about by 'fickle winds' but I doubt if you do!

Anonymous said...

What a wonderful analogy. A lovely post.

Stan Ski said...

And your homeland is one of its finest stages.

cyclopseven said...

Yes..I agree. Our own existence is the ticket to this life. What else can we hope when we are already here amidst all that we can hope for?

Lilibeth said...

A neat poem...mobility and flying. The greatest show on Earth is that we are--breathing and sentient beings. I marvel at it all.
http://gildorianne.blogspot.com/2010/02/greatest-show-on-earth.html

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