Mag 34 ~ Image by Willow
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Like dust on the glass
Like dried oil in the old lamp
I'm without reason
Light cycles round me
I decorate your window
I cast no shadow
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THE MEANING OF SUMMER
Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush
Broken by dreams of
Clinking ice
~ Gemma Wiseman
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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- 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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30 comments:
so turn down the lights and light my fire!
lovely thoughts.. Lovely Haiku...
--Someone Is Special--
I have no idea! I like this because it makes me think, but I still have no idea. :-)
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Amazing thoughts... we all sometimes wonder the reason of our existence.. Lovely mag
I like this very much. :-)
My Magpie
very enjoyable flow.
love reading it.
Very nice.
Wonderful verse!
doomed if I do, doomed if I don't
Brilliant!!
loveNlight
Gabi
Well done; makes you think.
both can be read together, and as individual haikus too, Gemma :) loved it!
My Magpie
beautiful gemma!
I love the idea of a disorientated lamp and lost light.
Awesome. Wanna see my Magpie? It's at http://thelunaticsdiary.blogspot.com
Poignant and powerful. A wonderful piece.
that's one sad lamp lament
rene
Your poems remind me of the old Bible school song "Give Me Oil in My Lamp". That is such a sad lamp.
A lamp no longer needed; a life without a purpose - the worst that could happen to anyone. Thought provoking haikus.
depth and thought provoking...
Great job with this Magpie.
... enjoyed your Magpie! You captured the 'feel' of the lantern.
Seems kind of lonely & sad.
Nice Mag. I love the simplicity of the words but the complexity of the emotional texture. Love and Light, Sender
beautiful...
A sad state of non-existence for a soul.
QMM
nice. like someone said, they each hold their own...and then together...nice magpie!
Overlooked. Light the fire and find the purpose. Great Magpie!
Sad and lovely, Gemma.
So much said in a few words...beautiful! :-)
You said it all with so few words. Lovely!
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