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Sunday, July 18, 2010

I Wish...

Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Night and dawn scenes in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Carry on Tuesday #62 ~ This week our prompt is the first line of the 2008 novel
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt:
Lightning first, then the thunder. And in between the two...
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Carry on Tuesday #61 ~ This week our prompt is the first line of the Freddie Mercury song Barcelona:
I had a perfect dream
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Lightning
That flash slicing midnight skies
Thunder
That drumbeat rolling midnight depths

Recently
Life was a whirlpool of fears
Midnight questions without stars

I longed for lightning first
Sharp, forked light was better than
No light at all

For a moment I would see
The shapes of the unknown

And then the thunder
Rolling
Rolling anything into sound

And in between the two
My perfect dream
My perfect dawn
Raining light

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6 comments:

George S Batty said...: Old Gizz likes your take on lightning. I had a lonely time when a traffic jam was company and some lightning to light the night would have been perfect.; July 18, 2010 at 5:18 PM
Stan Ski said...: I like the image 'raining light' conjurs.; July 18, 2010 at 5:52 PM
flaubert said...: Very pretty piece Gemma
Pamela; July 21, 2010 at 5:56 AM
Someone is Special said...: Great Imagination, I loved these lines, "And in between the two, My Perfect Dream"...

You are awesome writer..

Saravana Kumar - Dream

Yours Frendly,
Saravana Kumar M; July 21, 2010 at 11:26 AM
Linda Bob Grifins Korbetis Hall said...: lovely piece,
mine is up!; July 22, 2010 at 1:12 AM
gautami tripathy said...: Good one!

cut and dried; July 24, 2010 at 1:44 AM

Archive of Blog Quotes

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