Height of Haiku Challenge
Haiku Heights #59 ~ Write
A hand works the pen
The fingers key the letters
But mind and soul write
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I measure out my life with haiku. My camera films my 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)
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Write
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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
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- Power of Red
- Clouds on the March
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Rhythm
- White Spray
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Charm
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Poise
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Phoenix
- Empty Matchbox
- Sea Horse Lair
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Lost
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Water
- The Pillars of the Earth ~ Poetic Review
- Blue on Blue
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Bullseye
- Icy Drops
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Feather
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Bold
- Trai_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_n_s
- Beauty Before Chaos
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Winter
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Chime
- Strange Patterns
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Patience
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Elixir
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Liberty
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Flood
- Take a walk in the shadows...
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Magic
- Windows
- The wind should be my friend...
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Yearn
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Hidden
- Touches of White
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Hypnotic
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Kiss
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Flourish
- In the stillness of shadows...
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Windmill
- Swamp Hen at Coolart
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Mirror
- Almost Spring Garden
- Height of Haiku Challenge ~ Write
- Blue Gum Gallery Maze
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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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14 comments:
Yes, I'm fine. Thank you!! I'm trying to figure out what this a photo of. Hmmm... Really interesting!
mind AND soul, the key to a great write, like this :)
very true!
Nice haiku!
a unity of mind and soul, it is why we write too. beautifully said!
I like the directness of your style in this haiku.
Ah, yes, the writing really comes from somewhere deep within...
Nice haiku.
Where would we be without mind and soul?
To me, its almosta spiritual piece
this is so true without our souls we write nothing!
a beautiful haiku and so true.
perfect! loved your lines Gemma! :)
It is really the soul and mind that write! :)
Beautifully expressed haiku, Gemma. All the writing courses in the world can't impart the most necessary ingredient to writing - the soul's input.
The most awesome writes are when both the mind and the soul cooperate with each other!!
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