Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A rainy Nepean Highway at Rosebud, Mornington Peninsula
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One Single Impression #123 ~ Roads
(NOTE: This poem became a reflection celebrating my 3 years of blogging since 4.07.07.
Thank you to all visitors who walked many roads with me and have shown me many exciting new ones too! )
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Roads invite some kind of movement forward
Walking
Running
Driving
If
For some reason
A backwards movement is required
Usually it is easier
To turn right round and
Regress forwards
Roads are there to map
To plan
To lead
To ease
To share
A journey
Roads are there to
Cross
(Maybe even jaywalk)
To master a new direction
(Maybe even a new perspective)
Roads are seasonal victims
Burning tar
Blinding glare
Rain slides
Pot holes
Road users are seasonal competitors
Peripheral vision
Gut predictions
Alert to
The context of the moment
But if the road
Succumbs to a grungy track
Some skill
Some instinct for
Navigational staying power
Kicks in
(Or should)
And then
There are those roads that seem to disappear into
Nowhere
An ambivalent closure
Bushland
Maybe even desert
But rather than
An end
A dead end
Perhaps here is
A road
Waiting
To be
A road
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I measure out my life with haiku. My camera films my soul. ~ Gemma Wiseman
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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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13 comments:
Bonjour sweet friend
Beautiful post, you are so creative, and your words, a perfect poetry to brighten our day here!MErci! :)
Hugs
Léia - Bonjour Luxembourg
Just beautiful. It really never ends.
Living in a very rainy country, it looks familiar to me ! I am so glad that we have a heatwave and I am melting for once !
An excellent metaphor of the blogging experience. It is an interesting road. Takes us everywhere!
Also, a commentary on life and the roads we travel with our time here. I enjoyed this one very much.
Very well said.. a road waiting to be a road.. beautiful journey this!
I like the list aspect of this poem.
congrats for the long blogging journey .. and i loved this poem :)
Happy Anniversary! wonderful piece on roads~
You touched a variety of thoughts about road and all are realistic Gemma...:-)
Amazing rendition this is!
great poem - my favorite line -
"roads are seasonal victims"
brilliant!
peace,
JP/deb
Wonderfully written and I especially love the last stanza!
I enjoyed the excursion through the roads and down the path. Provocative thoughts.
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