Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A feature which was part of an exhibition at Melbourne Museum
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Sensational Haiku Wednesday ~ Health
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3WW #CCXLIV ~ alter + fond + tranquil
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Fond of the tranquil
Alter the health of the mind
The body follows
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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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19 comments:
It speaks out to me!
eye for an eye
Ah great minds think alike. Good haiku :O)
And I'm the idiot who entered them both separately - with 4 haikus! Clever combination.
Brilliant - No more, no less!
So true if your mind is not healthy your body will struggle.... great haiku this week!
I completely agree there is such a strong connection between taking care of your health and mental and spiritual well-being
It is true that the health of the mind is just as important, if not more so, than the health of the body. I found your link through Jenn's link up.
SO very true - great haiku!
So true .wonderful that you could express this in a haiku
Absolutely beautiful my friend and so true. Love it :) Have a great day :)
wonderful advice and well expressed :-)
Oh my goodness ... who could argue with that?
That is so lovely. I do not know how you do it. Find the flow of words you don't choose. And with so few of them, say so much. Very nice. This is one of my favorites.
I wish I could get my mind to follow the tranquil some days.
An Austrailian haiku. Wish I could hear you read it.
It read great to me. Would love to hear you say tranquility. I bet it sounds nice with an accent. If you are from there, if not, I'm sure you would say it fine with whatever accent you had. lol. Great read.
Nicely done!
You managed all those prompts in three brief lines? Oh, my! That's what I call "packed"!
good one, ! Very intense
Thanks for this, Gemma. You used the prompt words to convey an important message - that mind/body connection, the holistic inside us all. Amy
My take: http://sharplittlepencil.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/prompt-etiquette-3ww/
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