Microfiction Monday #67 ~ where a picture paints 140 characters, or even fewer. Susan says:
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One Single Impression #152 ~ Quagmire
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Iced minds
Staring at a
Murky mist of
Shameful questions
Our bridge
Our icon
So far away
Between us a white
Blank
Quagmire
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(140 characters)
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THE MEANING OF AUTUMN
AUTUMN is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter
AUTUMN whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key
AUTUMN is an introspective season, when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul
- 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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Quagmire
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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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21 comments:
That's very pretty!
Very Nice Gemma, sometimes I feel as if the bridge I need is too far to reach. A wonderful week is wished for you.
beautiful.
love your take.
Beautiful as always, Gemma, you do say it all so well! Thank you for your response to my question re: my blog, I haven't had anyone else tell me about that particular problem, but I'm not surprised I guess when we all have a good bit of information on our blogs in addition to the regular post. Hope you have a great week!
Sylvia
Sounds like they need some closure.... hope they get it. :O)
well done Gemma
beautiful and touching
Lovely, Gemma.
-- K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel
Quite an apt analogy which goes so well with your photo.
Really enjoyed the beauty that you see in the picture. Well done Gemma
Alas, the quagmire in the mind
... and little chance of closure!
Ahh...quagmires...nothing to sneeze at, for sure!
Have a great week. Cheers!
I got a chill down my spine when I read it. Gave me the feeling that they had passed on and were having this conversation. Very deep, loved it.
Surely this is the confusion that we all face in attempting to communicate with one another....
Great tragedy! I hope they will be able to find reconciliation on that bridge. Well done.
VERY MUDDY Quagmire- Thanks!
Love the honesty in this - it's a wonderful read!
And here I thought you'd link it with the floods in Oz...this is much more profound and beautiful though.
Wow, you're a talented word whittler! Thanks for sharing! ;)
♥.•*¨ Elizabeth ¨*•.♥
Nice poem!
'between us a white blank - quagmire'... you have so expertly weaved feelings and emotions in just 140 characters...:)
lovely Gemma, and thank you so much for taking part in my prompt suggestion...
regards,
amity
Thoughtful, beautiful piece.
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