When dreams melt...

Collage by Gemma Wiseman
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3WW #CCXXXVII ~ cleanse + knead + melt
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When dreams melt
Purge realities
Toss them high
Knead them well
Bake golden in warm ovens
Cleanse the hungry soul
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Hosted by Thom @ Three Word Wednesday

Penny Royal Launceston Postcard

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Images of a tourist attraction right in the heart of Launceston, Tasmania
I used to live in a beautiful mountain hamlet called Liffey - outside Launceston.
When I was forced to leave Tasmania to find work, I was almost heartbroken.
So I collected a range of postcards to keep the memories alive!
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Postcard Friendship Friday #16
This pairs with my Weekend Mailbox meme!
See Weekend Mailbox #10 HERE below!
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Fragrant memories
Wonderland of peaceful worlds
Beauty locked in time
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A Glimpse of Tasmazia

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Souvenir from northern Tasmania.
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Blue Monday meme
That's My World Tuesday XL
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It looks plain and insignificant, but what it says on this blue plastic key ring is amazing!
I've been to the Promised Land
Across the way from Paradise
Down the road from No-Where-Else
Via the Devil's Gate, Tasmania.
Each of those names represents real names of real places in Tasmania.
No-Where-Else is a hamlet with a remarkable pottery gallery!
P.S. I purchased this at an incredible tourist attraction called Tasmazia (check out this website for a taste of living fantasy) in the Promised Land outside Sheffield in the north of Tasmania.
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The world of Tasmazia is a crazy complex located in the wonderfully named town of Promised Land in the heart of Tasmania's beautiful Cradle Mountain and Lakes District.
Tasmazia includes 8 mazes, featuring The Great Maze, reputedly the world's largest, as well as The Village of Lower Crackpot, a whimsical model village built to 1/5th scale, The Honey Boutique, The Pancake Parlour, a Gift Shop, a Lavender Farm, and ever present views of majestic Mount Roland...
Tasmazia is the brainchild of Brian Inder, a former farmer, who has transformed his Promised Land dairy farm into this brilliant 20,000-shrub lavender farm, then devised and built the incredible mazes, Lower Crackpot, and the rest of this magical world over 20 years.
Brian Inder (as he is known to his mother) prefers to go under the name of Laird Crackpot of the Village of Lower Crackpot, along with his wife Laura, have simply got up and created a quite magical world of their own...
The inspiration has clearly come from far and wide; the Great Maze is reputedly the World's Largest, one of the mazes is an exact replica of the famous one at Hampton Court Palace in England, another has a Wizard of Oz theme, while there's a memorial to the inventor of the toilet at the end of the absolutely infuriating Cage maze...
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The Village Motto is 'Fractis Sed Utilis', which translates, 'broken but still useful', which a cracked pot is.
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Crackpot Angels' home
School of Lateral Thinking
Tasmazia's land
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NOTE: Crackpot Angels is a motorcycle club.
Badges to join the club may be purchased in the shop.
The School of Lateral Thinking is a building in the village with a humungous arrow reaching sideways.
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What a great way to take a dream and share it and live it!
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Return to the Isle of Light

Pics by Gemma Wiseman
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Just a few notes ~ I have moments when I long to return to Tasmania, an island paradise. If I hear a little music from Alchemy (1996-8), then my spirit weeps with longing.
So using song titles from Alchemy's albums, here is a poem dedicated to a return someday. (Song titles are highlighted!)
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Writer's Island prompt ~ The Return
One Single Impression prompt ~ Reflecting
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Sometimes
Life is just a Stony Ground
Stifling the rhythms of
Earthbeat ~
Sometimes
A Tarn Dance
Spurns
Bleeding feet
But The Calling
Remains
Distant
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Sometimes
I feel
Dark Wind
Churning
Black Sea
But I walk
Still
On Shifting Sands
In the Seasons of
Shadows ~
The Tapestry
Of Dreams
Spills fractured realities
On a Wing
Cursed to
Icarus' Flight
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Sometimes
On the Whitest Sand
In a January summerland
I dare to stand on
Land's Edge
Reflecting on
Pasts and futures ~
Scanning the Ebb and Flow ~
And will my ship
To give me
The return
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Isle of Light ~ for Poefusion #15

Pic by Michael G85 of Liffey Falls, Tasmania on Deviant Art
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Pic of Mount Roland, Sheffield, Tasmania by wiz66 on Deviant Art
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Southern light

Island of mountains

Blue music snowlines

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Mysterious soft time warp

My music, my song

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Sheffield murals

Lost village

Luscious bakery

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Tazmazia

Walking puzzle

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Launceston

Cataract Gorge streams

White windmill sails

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Mysterious soft music

My song, my time warp

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Dry's Bluff colours

Nature's moods

Heady food for souls

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Old Liffey

Another life

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Whispering thoughts on the wind

As the dream carries dreams on whispers...
To their destinations...
Just a sigh
And a whisper of longing...
A whisper of dream...
A glimmer of hope....
Standing...watching the waves rush to shore...
And watching the sand dance in the moonlight...
Bare feet...free...dancing
Cool sensation...watching the water trickle...
Like the touch of a guardian angel...
And the hands of a lost soul reaching across the distant shore...
Waiting for the time to be right...
And the sun to shine bright...
Warming the shadows of the heart...

A smile...the touch of a loving smile...
And the faint embrace of an extended arm...
Slowly a tear...a wondrous tear
Rolls down a half smiling half paining cheek...
Perhaps there is magic...
Perhaps dreams are real...
And as the sun warms the face...
All seems to melt away the tears...
And there is only the heart...loving...
Loving the feel of the wind...
The whispers on the wind...the promise of going home...
Home on the wind of dreams...

Longing for the Isle of Light - Tasmania

Even though the Mornington Peninsula is a wonderful world for the spirit, I still have moments of longing for another world...northern Tasmania. I imagine the Peninsula reaching out across Bass Strait and keeping me in touch.

Perhaps someday, the dream may yet happen. I will live and write in Tasmania. Meanwhile, I will just keep writing to get there!!!

A magic carpet ride with AuraGem!!!!