Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A pine with personality at the Enchanted Maze Garden, Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula
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A River of Stones #16
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Thursday Poets' Rally Week #37
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Creativity
Limited by stale thoughts
Re-invent the slate
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Thursday Poets' Rally is hosted by Jingle
Thursday Poets' Rally + Promising Poets' Parking Lot ~ Week #37 ~ Thank you Jingle!
I nominate moonlitpoetic for the Week #38 award!
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)
Sunday, January 16, 2011
A River of Stones #16 ~ Creativity
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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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10 comments:
Oh, that photo is amazing! Lovely post!
Hello, how are you?
Simply want to check out on you and offer you our greatest appreciation for your support to potluck poetry. You rock!
Reminder: week 18 Theme: Languages, Signs and Symbols
The more you share, the happier we are. Plan ahead and have your entry poem. We are open Sunday 8pm, American Central time, linking in early would benefit your work with more encouragements.
Hope to see you on Sunday at: http://jinglepoetry.blogspot.com/
Let me know via email if you have questions or doubts.
Again, we treasure your participation and would be great to see you again on week 18.
Wow. Another wonderful photo of an awesome subject.
That's very thoughtful...
Thanks for honoring the award.
Happy Rally.
cute yet powerful Haiku.
Amazing
JP
http://tasithoughts.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/pieces/
That brought a smile to my face and brightened my day...
Another awesome Australian blogger! Lovely blog ...
A fine haiku and a truly interesting photo that well illustrates it.
Happy Rally days ...
Great Haiku, matches the wonderful picture and gives me the feeling of ethereal eternity. Thanks for sharing!
Fascinating lines and that picture just blows my mind!
(thanks for nomination, I'm honoured!)
Yel. :)
Great photo...thoughtful words.
Bless!
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