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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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Dark Side of the Mind


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Sign is part of a display at Melbourne Museum
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3WW #CXC ~ dread + grasp + pacify
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Catalyst of dread
His grasp of devil's marbles
Her eyes pacify

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12 comments:

Voices of NLD said...

Love the "devils marbles" Makes three short sentences very intense

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Thom Gabrukiewicz said...

catalyst of dread, what a great line.

Grandma said...

So short, yet so filled with imagery. Lovely.

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Tammy Brierly said...

Powerful piece in those few choice words.

Dee Martin said...

creepy but good!

Stan Ski said...

You certainly kick-started a thought process here.

Unknown said...

What a sign! same with Stan Ski here.

Timothy P. Remp said...

Powerful piece and imagery

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Jay R. Thurston said...

I enjoyed the poem, especially liked "Catalyst Of Dread."

rdl said...

nicely done!

when the musics over said...

Grasping devil's marbles, makes me think of idle hands (are the devil's playground). Brief and thought provoking!

Stu Pidasso said...

Reread several times. Just can't get the reference to "devil's marbles". But A nice short poem. Less is more.

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