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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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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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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Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ Included is Michelle's photo of a dove statue from her Cincinnati Zoo visit.
It sits at the Garden of Peace entrance.
The remaining images are some of my ornaments with a photo overlay of a wild and grey and stormy day in the Dromana Hills.
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Poefusion Monday Mural
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In the shadowlands
Colourless souls simply be
Wandering nowhere
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Feeble pale pulses
Being is a silhouette
Numb euphoria
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Ark of potential
Selective criteria
Billowed hopeful sails
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Stray olive branch
Peaceful life in wild waters
Gift from a lone dove
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Michelle's dove overlaid with retreating dark shapes
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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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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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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Poefusion prompt ~ Nove Otto ~ The nove otto poetic form was created by Scott J. Alcorn. It's a nine-lined poem with eight syllables and a rhyme scheme of aacbbcddc.
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Christmas can be a fragile time
When the spirit feels lost in rhyme
Past rhythmic rhymes of loneliness
Christmas shopping is a wish list
Floating somewhere in the mind's mist
The solo lyrics of sadness
Christmas lightings bring fleeting joy
Child longing for a distant toy
Plaintive melody of loveless
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This is dedicated to all those who may not know the Spirit of Christmas.
And my dearest wish is that the Spirit of Christmas finds you.
I believe in miracles.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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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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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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Pic by Gemma Wiseman~ A loved part of me who has travelled many journeys with me
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Poefusion Tuesday title ~ Create a poem from the title word Poepelganger.
Who's your poet alter ego?
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For me, I am haunted by T.S.Eliot's gift of sunlight on a broken column, the revolutionary mind of William Blake and the sense of namaste I feel with Emily Dickinson.
All three are My Trinity, My Poepelganger.
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This black body
This black face are
Just a cloud
Waiting to be free
Just like
A white body and
A white face are
Just clouds
Needing freedom
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Some are dedicated to
Revisions and revisions
Some measure out life with
Coffee spoons
And some
Come and go
Chatting of
(Maybe to)
Michelangelo
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Do I dare disturb
The tapestries of paradise
Woven with
Many threads?
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Sunset light at Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula
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Poefusion Tuesday Title prompt ~ Unchained Roads
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In fading lights
An earth bound road
Empty of people
Empty of traffic
Somehow seems a lonely road ~
Unchained of routine
Unchained of practical, purposeful activity ~
Somehow seems a useless road
Inviting only those who feel
A need to explore blurry horizons
A need to wander
Alone
Maybe with no particular purpose
Except just
To be
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But the transient roads of the skies
Marked by sunset clouds
Curbing filmy tracks ~
Changing direction and shape with
Every breath of wind ~ are
Never chained
Never chained to a particular
Social norm,
Political, cultural or religious purpose
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And it is these roads ~
These ephemeral
Dreamscape roads which
Mark
Design
Play
The unchained melody~
The eternal journey of
The inner spirit
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Tuesday Title
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Red Hill Gallery sign, Mornington Peninsula
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Poefusion Tuesday Title prompt ~ Red Music of Burning Glass
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Red
Red hills
Red hills burning
Red hills burning music
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Old music
Old Eden music
Old Eden music burning
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Eden
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Glass
Crystal glass
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Crystal
Shattered
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Dromana skies by Port Phillip Bay
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Poefusion ~ Tuesday Title prompt ~ Listening to the colour of my mind
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Waking
Feeling weighty sighs from yesterday ~
Knowing fragments of me
Broke ~
Knowing I could not reach
Another
Tormented
Angry
Being
Locked in a desperate maze of
Escape routes in
Blind
Dark
Alleys
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Knowing love was simply not enough ~
Listening to the colour of my mind
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Feeling a sense of wonder ~
On this particular day ~
When the first blur of waking passed ~
He tossled my hair
Gently
Smiled a little and gave me
An angel in
A swirling gown
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Two cherubs graced her feet ~
One held a star
One held a tiny bird
And she carried a tiny candle
Shielded with her left hand
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She had no halo ~
But instead
There was a place
(Behind her head) for
The halo light of
A candle
To be
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Perhaps love always reaches
Even the most distant horizons
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Sailing on a calmer sea
Today and
Listening to the colour of my mind
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Ship on the horizon at Dromana
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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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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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