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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

I Won't Share!

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Sometimes a kookaburra and a magpie don't like to share the TV antenna on our home in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula.
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Black and White Wednesday meme
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3WW #CCXX ~ educate + object + silence
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Not quite feathered friends
Both like to rule their own space
Like mini sky wars

Some choose aloofness
Some object to cold silence
Educate passions
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Black and White Wednesday is hosted by Lisa

Hosted by Thom @ Three Word Wednesday

10 comments:

Lost in thoughts said...: I loved the line - "like to rule their own space"...how true of humans..probably of all living beings...
The tree wants to rule and hence cracks the earth...the earth wants to rule and hence makes uncrackable stones...
on and on it goes....; December 22, 2010 at 11:45 PM
Anonymous said...: What a neat photo. I really like it.; December 23, 2010 at 12:14 AM
Nanka said...: So much variety in nature and it's the variety that makes life enjoyable.

Even the display of emotions is so varied and this absence of uniformity breaks all monotony.

Great Haiku's!!; December 23, 2010 at 2:20 AM
Someone is Special said...: Gemma wonderfully written..

--Someone is Special--; December 23, 2010 at 5:02 AM
Unknown said...: Great timing, super capture!; December 23, 2010 at 5:37 AM
Lilibeth said...: I love the road to China picture and the birds wrangling over the space.; December 23, 2010 at 1:55 PM
Anonymous said...: Gemma, "like mini sky wars," charming. A handful of words to create a fun, fanciful take on the prompt.

Here's mine:
http://sharplittlepencil.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/control-questioning-authority-three-wd-weds/

Namaste! Amy Barlow Liberatore; December 23, 2010 at 3:19 PM
Ramesh Sood said...: Educate passionate too.. that also becomes a need sometimes.. I liked your take on the prompt..; December 24, 2010 at 4:07 AM
eyeography said...: Thats a wonderful picture... :)
Excellent haikus...

"Some choose aloofness
Some object to cold silence"..My fav lines :); December 24, 2010 at 5:48 AM
Anonymous said...: Great picture! The b/w makes them feel even more determined to win!; December 28, 2010 at 12:50 PM

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