Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Weigela in my Dromana Hills garden, Mornington Peninsula
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3WW #CCXIV ~ gesture + immediate + treasure
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Immediate gift
A gesture wrapped in flowers
Sensitive treasure
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Hosted by Thom @ Three Word Wednesday
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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SONGS ABOUT AUSTRALIA
- 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
- "Great Southern Land" - the deepest wells of the Australian spirit - Icehouse (1989)
Australian Photography, Painting & Music Links
- Tia Kane Art - Chinese art through Australian eyes
- Kieran Murphy - Amazing 19yr old (2008) guitarist - Melbourne = "The Chase"
- Ian Wallace - Award winning photographer from Tasmania
- Lindsay Buckland - Music - Eclipse of the Common Sense - Melbourne, Australia
- Andonis - Heroic Mosaic Art - Melbourne Australia
- Michelle Wrighton - Pet Portrait Artist - Perth, Western Australia
- David Webb's Nature Photography - Queensland
- Robert Todonai - Painter of Australian Life & Landscapes - Western Australia
General Interest Australian Websites
- Australia's Weirdest Wineries
- Mornington Peninsula Tourism
- HaikuOz
- Unusual Facts About Australia ~ Some serious, mysterious and fun
- Desert Art - Broken Hill NSW
- The True Blue Roo Poo Company - Funny gifts from Down Under
- Scribbly Gum
- Truly Australia - Travel Australia
- ABC Rural Australia
- ABC Northern Tasmania
- Australian Snapshots
- Message Stick - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Online
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
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15 comments:
Hi Gemma,
3 lines and that too speaking everythig.
I believe that this a tough form of poetry.
Second line was the one that I liked the best cause it had that lasting effect in any environment.
~Harsha
Hi - I have just visited Susannah and agreed with you that her words were potent and fir together perfectly. Your poem is so 'meant to be' to - I can't imagine the words being used in any other or any better way Jae :)
As usual.. I could come out with a haiku this time.. but you inspire.. will still try.. let us see if it clicks.. hats off to your talent..well said..
not enough of us see the plan treasure of a gift of flowers, even for yourself, in a vase on a table, with a smile.
So pretty. simple and beautiful.
I love the idea you share with these lines.
So simple yet so perfect, beautiful.
lovely!
yes, a beautiful tercet
Wow...pic is awesome and the gift was superb...for me whatver gift i have, i would surely treasure it, if the gesture is wholehearted!
Thanks for this beautiful haiku Gemma...mine is now up also!
Beautifully expressed :)
I like the idea of a'gesture wrapped in flowers'.
Excellent work
electronically yours
I love the fragrance this brings. :)
Lovely and beautiful...
Flowers are one of the greatest treasures in nature... :)
Hi Gemma..
You are the best when it comes to Haiku.. You wonder me by your haikus..
--Someone Is Special--
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