AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

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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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Happy New Year Child


Illustration by: Frances Brundage 1900
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Monday's Child #26
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Thursday Poets' Rally ~ Week #36
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I have the face of a cherub
With eyes that glint with smiles
But I know how to reap
The fears that weep
And build castles in the sands of time

For I am the New Year child
Destined to be your guide
I see your dreams
And hear your sighs
And offer you joy on the next high tide
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Monday's Child - (an illustration from a children's book is the writing prompt) - is hosted by bkmackenzie


Thursday Poets' Rally is hosted by Jingle


Thank you Jingle!

7 comments:

signed...bkm said...

This is so cute...makes me want to jump on board with this baby New Year and make the most of each day....thank you so much for posting...may you have a Blessed Holiday Season and New Year...bkm

bj said...

How cute this is. I just know the new year will bring much happiness to all of us. It is going to be a fine year, I think.

Thanks for coming by my place. Come again soon.
and...have a blessed and MERRY CHRISTMAS.
xo bj

Jingle said...

vivid and lovely.

perfect piece to welcome 2011.
Thanks for sharing with poets rally.

satan's hotel said...

This was a great little piece to discover on new year's day...thank-you!

Pamela said...

I'm ready for some joy!!!!

Linda Bob Grifins Korbetis Hall said...

Thanks for the support,

Happy Thursday,

;)

Anonymous said...

lovely.. mine for this thursday- http://fiveloaf.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/hunger/

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