
Microfiction Monday #53 ~ where a picture paints 140 characters, or even fewer. Susan says:
Photos will be from my own archives; illustrations are from Dover Publications' free clipart sample newsletter.
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Once my long hair won a prince's love.
I became his queen.
Now I'm bricked in!
Me! Rapunzel!
(Don't believe every fairytale you read!)
(140 characters)
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Monday, October 18, 2010
The Real Rapunzel
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- Damien Leith - his citizenship ceremony in Tenterfield + he sings "Tenterfield Saddler" - Australia Day 2007
- "I Still Call Australia Home" - Peter Allen's beautiful song sung by the Outback Singers - absolutely stunning!
- "I Am Australian" - delightful Australian images synchronise with a song of the Australian spirit - The Seekers
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Australian Photography, Painting & Music Links
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- David Webb's Nature Photography - Queensland
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- 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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10 comments:
Always love to know the story behind the fairytale.
Good one, I so enjoyed it.
Have a great week down under.
Aw, geez! So that's what happened! It just figures, doesn't it? Those men in power can be so darn fickle. :)
Ah, the truth out at last!! Great one for the day, Gemma! Hope you have a lovely week!
Sylvia
That's for sure! :O)
Great take on this week's prompt! Poor Rapunzel!
The truth will out. Good one, Gemma.
Kay, Alberta
LOL :D! I like these "The Rest of the Story" fairy tales. If fairy tales were realistic, it might make little girls depressed.
Perhaps the princess missed the quiet and solitude the tower provided her; hopefully another princely gentleman will arrive to save her (but I doubt it)...LOL
Have a great week. Cheers!
Poor Rapunzel. Love can be cruel! :O)
From one prison to another. Poor Rapunzel. I love this new twist to a familiar story.
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