Poefusion of the Seasons

Collage by Gemma Wiseman of Spring and Autumn on the Mornington Peninsula
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Poefusion Friday 5 ~ autumn + sovereign + subtraction + distinction + nectar
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Seasonal sisters
Autumn leaves like falling wines
Bright ruffles of Spring
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Distinction of time
Cool decline and warm nectar
Beauty of contrasts
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Collage by Gemma Wiseman
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Opposite landscapes
Subtraction and addition
Absolute beauties
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Sovereign women
Natural alter egos
Life's Poefusion
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Collage by Gemma Wiseman
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NOTE: This is the last Friday 5. Michelle of Poefusion has been a wonderful hostess, so, in some small way, I wanted to use her last prompt as a celebration of Poefusion.
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Where the tallest of tall ships drift...

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Sky landscape over my school in Melbourne
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Poefusion Friday 5 ~ billow + filament + stifle + erase + click
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Where the tall ships drift
Canyons of heavenly ocean
Erase earthly dust
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Tiers softly billow
Wafting breezes of light
Stifle traumatic questions
Numb euphoria
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Just a filament of eternity
Cataclysmic
Click
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Train Fantasy

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ At Tyabb Grainstore Antiques is a mini railway.
The rail circuits the entire store at ceiling level.
It was first installed about 12 years ago and has 5 engines with multiple carriages.
Along the track are mini icons.
(The layout is so difficult to photograph effectively.)
Currently, this curiosity is for sale.
Unfortunately, it is not operating now.
But seeing the aura of how it used to be is quite mystical.
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Poefusion Friday 5 ~ multiplication + necessity + exactitude + blister + quest
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Multiplication
Tyabb Art and Craft Village
Multiple wonders
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Some scenery along the way
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Vital subtraction
Craving for creative souls
Quest necessity
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ One of the tunnels
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Hopeful division
Separating light and dark
Warm exactitude
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Welcome addition
In the blister of today
A train fantasy
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ This photo shows the level of the train track above antiques for sale.
(In the background, you can see how the track winds through the rooms of the shop.)
P.S. I asked the owner's permission to take these photos.
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Waiting for Australian Spring

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Winter hail stones gathered on my verandah in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Poefusion's Friday 5 prompt ~ October + flamethrower + strained + toes + spine
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Cocooned flamethrower
Hibernated toes strained from socks
Spine of October
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Christmas Revival

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Window in Wingback Books, a pre-loved bookshop in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Friday meme
Poefusion's Friday 5 prompt ~ blemish + eject + flinch + pout + dot
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Small Christmas window
Books waiting for love again
Christmas soul revival
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A white dot for snow
Cartoon Christmas fantasy
Mischievous spirit
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Blossom Street may flinch
Christmas letters eject from hearts
Just entertainment
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Curled corner blemish
Tchaikovsky's sugar plum dance
Eternal music
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Small Christmas window
Old books pout with dignity
Christmas soul revival
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Mystical Winter

Collage of night clouds, water and distant earth lights by Gemma Wiseman
For some unknown reason, deep dark clouds and the flickering waves of night lights always give me a sense of time travel through bygone winters and I feel flickering fragments of warm insights into the mystical.
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Poefusion's Friday Five prompt ~ debris + winter + vitreous + stark + limpid
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Limpid memories
Iced drinks celebrate warm days
I remember well
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Stark silent winter
Vitreous summer laughter
Barbecue debris
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Tree near Dromana beach, Mornington Peninsula
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Open Air Gallery

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ William Ricketts sculpture at Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula
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Poefusion Friday 5 ~ sculpture + gesso + plain + woozy + jumble
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A jumble of rocks
Plain rocks cast as a rough wall
Open gallery
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Haunting old sculpture
Perhaps wrought once in gesso
Now weathered by time
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Pocked peeling colours
Woozy cracks like white lightning
But the eyes live on
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Pic by Gemma Wiseamn ~ In another light, the same face seems to have a quite different expression
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Nearby information
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Embroideries

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Beautiful landscape at Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula
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Poefusion Friday 5 prompt ~ fatigue + embroidery + secluded + monotonous + thaw
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Secluded landscape
Waiting for chill winds to thaw
Springtime beauty dawns
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Old winter fatigue
Magically slips into dreams
Monotonous days
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Fence embroidery
Nature knits life from nothings
New face in mirrors
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Fragments

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ early Spring at Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula
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Poefusion Friday 5 prompt ~
(From Dictionary.com)
flivver ~
1. Older Slang. an automobile, esp. one that is small, inexpensive, and old.
2. Slang. something of unsatisfactory quality or inferior grade.
fricative ~
1. (of a speech sound) characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted or partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract; spirantal; spirant.
–noun 2. Also called spirant. a fricative consonant, as (th), (v), or (h).
frowsy ~
1. Unkempt; slovenly: frowzy clothes; a frowzy professor.
2. Having an unpleasant smell; musty: a frowzy pantry.
fledgling ~
1. a young bird just fledged.
2. an inexperienced person.
–adjective 3. young, new, or inexperienced: a fledgling diver.
farl ~
1. noun Scot. ~ a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.
2. obsolete v.t. ~ same as furl ~ to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
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Pleiades was invented by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine's lead editor, in 1999. It is a single titled poem whose seven lines, six syllables each start with the first letter of the poem title.
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Frozen Spring morning
Fledgling awakening
Fractured, tired country lane
Faded flivver of old
Frowsy homes struggle life
Fricative hushed voices
Flowers still arch and farl
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Night Wires

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Night wires
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Poefusion Friday 5 prompt ~ pheromones + earmarked + sedulous + apiculate + blisters
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Sedulous blisters
Earmarked pheromones of fears
Apiculate leaves
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Sedulous wirings
Earmarked deep midnights of tears
Discordant cross lines
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Scavenger on the Wing

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Seagulls on a beach wall at Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Poefusion Friday5 prompt ~ pickpocket + refurbish + propose + face + heal
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The beach is the ideal place
To heal the fragile spirit
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Just a quiet walk by the sea can
Refurbish
An empty soul
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Seagulls in close up
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But waiting seagulls
Often
Propose
An alternative piece of
Beach
Entertainment
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Their graceful
White
Innocence in flight
Can be
Another story
On earth
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A seagull is the ultimate
Brazen
Pickpocket
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Seagulls wait in the Dromana coastal carpark
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Anywhere
By the sea is
Seagull territory
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ No human space is too sacred for a seagull invasion
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Waiting
Watching for
Any stray food scraps
Given willingly or
Simply left open for
These thieves on the wing
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Closer still
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Strange
A seagull face seems
So bland
So expressionless
So snowy white
Masking
Many devious
Dark
Scavenger
Secrets
Within
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An Exiguous Table

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Winter skies
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Poefusion Friday 5 prompt ~ exiguous + thoughtless + gifted + imperfect + waterfall
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Imagine
An imperfect world
Dreams fretted with strings

Gifted lyrics gnawed to dust
Dry waterfall

Imagine
An exiguous table
Fevered breaths

Arctic clouds
Greying wilderness
Thoughtless
Scattered
Feathers
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Postcard Heaven

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Mixed Bits
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Poefusion Prompt ~ Friday 5 ~ shell, comic book, discarded soapbox, rubber soles, postcard
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3WW Prompt ~ delayed, edge, focus
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After a brisk shower dance
The discarded soapbox is left
To let wistful stars
Weep dry
(At least till the same routine
Tomorrow)
And the humble rubber soles
Take a walk
(Or a jog)
On the wild side
Of healthy living
Before knuckling down
To the next routine
Of working
On the edge
Of healthy living
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Somehow
This monotone lifecycle
This delayed action
Is worth a strip
In a comic book
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If only we could
Break
The shell
Of "must do"
And dare to focus
Barefoot
In the worlds of "may do"
Or "could do"
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That would be worth
A postcard
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Rafael Saldana's whimsical postcards of Tasmania
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Lumen ~ for Friday 5

Pic from greenhead ~ lumen tree votive
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Prompt ~ Poefusion's Friday 5 ~ splinter distractions molder votive punctuate
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Even when time seems to molder
And happiness is a mere splinter
Of sepia lifetimes
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When distractions are just a passing fancy ~
Stray music
On the wind
Chancing to punctuate
Yellowing keys
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The lumen of a simple votive
Casts
Glittering
Plaintive light
Over tiers
Of shadows
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Cozzling Time

Pic from Gallery Photo ~ by Bobo Lavorgna
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Friday 5 ~ caprussule mozzle cack skrey glureon
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'Tis now the very cozzling time of night,
When blinkries yark and shells implode in flate
Glureon to the world: I sprout mulden sighs
And do such skitter business as the skrey
Would quake to frizz. So limb close my lover.
O heart, lose not thy cushy; do not shafter
The soul of caprussule to splast and splard:
Let me be not spatural, but mozzle:
I will cack daggers, and carousel none;
My loll and soul in this be systemite;
How in my words goever I be slent
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(With apologies to Hamlet's Soliloquy: Tis now the very witching time of night ~ 3.2.380-391)