Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Today we celebrated Christmas with lunch at the grand old Portsea Hotel, Mornington Peninsula overlooking Port Phillip Bay.
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Writer's Island 2010 #35 ~ Celebrate
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Colours celebrate
Red, green, silver and gold shine
Christmas connections
The heart returns home
Family, memories, dreams
Longing of the soul
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LOCATION: in the Sea of Words
LONGITUDE: Imagination
LATITUDE: Creativity
CLIMATE: Warm winds of wonder
Pic by Gemma wiseman ~ One of the sculptures on the outside wall of the Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick, Melbourne
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One Single Impression #137 ~ Lonely
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Haiku Heights #12 ~ Blemish
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Writer's Island 2010 ~ Prompt #24 ~ Envision
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Carry on Tuesday #74 ~ John Lennon would have been 70 years old this October 9th.
It is therefore fitting that our prompt this week is the opening line of one of his songs, Beautiful Boy:
Close your eyes, have no fear....
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Holocaust burnings
Scorched blemish from yesterdays
A furnace of tears
Lonely dark heartaches
Cursed tensions from tragedies
Contaminate peace
Move on with hope
And close your eyes, have no fear
Mend a broken mind
Let memories rest
Envision fire as a phoenix
Cleanse a broken soul
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Three Lines from Your Heart
A Haiku Art
Hosted by Leo
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Hosted by Rob Kistner
LOCATION: in the Sea of Words
LONGITUDE: Imagination
LATITUDE: Creativity
CLIMATE: Warm winds of wonder
Writer's Island 2010 ~ Prompt #22 ~ Image by American poet, singer-songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author — Shel Silverstein
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There is a place where the boardwalk ends
Just before the drop begins,
And there the view glows sweet and light,
And there the fall burns crimson bright,
And there young souls crouch in fright
Willing a candyfloss wind.
The boardwalk is cracking
And dust is amassing
And the dog's in a frantic fit
And it's so exciting
Beyond inviting
Not knowing that bottomless pit
The sign says "KEEP OFF!"
So I thought that meant "JUMP!"
So I'm doing just as I'm told
Mum will be so pleased
Her mind will be eased
Knowing I'm brave and bold
O Susie hang on
For the ride of your life
For here comes a big pink cloud
The candyfloss wind
Is a wonderful thing
When you don't want a straight drop down
P.S. The whimsy of magical thoughts
May seem unreal
But there is nothing more real to the soul than
A moment of
Simple
Smiling
Happiness
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Hosted by Rob Kistner
LOCATION: in the Sea of Words
LONGITUDE: Imagination
LATITUDE: Creativity
CLIMATE: Warm winds of wonder
Collage by Gemma Wiseman ~ A rainy misty Spring morning in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula can be a photo opportunity - even without sunlight!
The featured kookaburras belong to the kingfisher family.
(Click to enlarge for best effect!)
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Writer's Island 2010 ~ Prompt #21 ~ Fisherman
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On misty wet days
I feel like a fisherman
Angling for sunlight
Within the grey gloom
Life's colours and shapes live on
Cloaked in mystery
Magic mystery
Fisherman discovers light
In fresh new waters
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Tinted in Picnik
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Hosted by Rob Kistner
LOCATION: in the Sea of Words
LONGITUDE: Imagination
LATITUDE: Creativity
CLIMATE: Warm winds of wonder
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Intricate light patterns on the waters at Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Writer's Island 2010 ~ Prompt #15 ~ Spellbound
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It was one of those cluttered Saturday mornings
Intimidating date with the weekly shopping routine
Gorgeous weather mockingly watching our dutiful engagement with
The inevitable
But on the way home
Car boot laden
Somehow the light
Sensuously beckoned
A brief relief by Dromana pier
Magical
Undulating dance of
Light rippling on
The breath of
Water
Spellbound by
The art of light
Spellbound
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Hosted by Rob Kistner
LOCATION: in the Sea of Words
LONGITUDE: Imagination
LATITUDE: Creativity
CLIMATE: Warm winds of wonder
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Oliver's Hill overlooking Port Phillip Bay at Frankston, Mornington Peninsula
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Carry on Tuesday #64 ~ This week our prompt is the opening line of Christina Georgina Rossetti’s poem Uphill:
Does the road wind uphill all the way?
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One Single Impression #127 ~ Cocoon
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Writer's Island 2010 ~ Prompt #14 ~ The Journey
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If a road plains gently
Straight and clear
Before it climbs
(Like psyching up the strength to struggle)
Is it possible that there may be
Some diversion
To fragment the climb
Some resting place
Some comic relief
To cocoon courage
To weigh memories and
Plan new ones
(Attempting to avoid the potholes)
Or
Does the road wind uphill all the way
Like a relentless
Taskmaster
Driving
Sheep
Like the journey of
Programmed destiny
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Writer's Island 2010 Prompt #9 ~ Imagine
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Black holes
No escape for light
Evolutionary endpoints of stars
Imploding to
Zero volume
Infinite density
No escape for light
If the Sun transformed
Metamorphosed into
A black hole
The earth would still
Turn and
Orbit
As before
But
No solar winds or
Magnetic storms
Just
Climate change
Black holes
Chasms of cataclysmic
Darkness beyond darkness
And yet
Black holes light up
When galaxies
Collide
IMAGINE!
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NOTE: Ideas are based on information gleaned from NASA's website!
(I am NOT a science guru but I love to learn and my imagination is boundless!)
For more detailed insights, click on NASA's banner above!
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Dawn lights in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Carry on Tuesday #58 ~ This week our prompt is the first words spoken in the 1959 Billy Wilder movie Some Like it Hot:
Well, nobody’s perfect
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Writer's Island 2010 Prompt #8 ~ Change
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One Single Impression #121 ~ Dawn
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Sunday Scribblings #220 ~ Birth
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When dawn becomes a whimper from yesterdays
And
Shabby conquests beg for change
Sometimes
A reckless dip in a Lethean sauna
Leeches the Gothic toxics
And inspires
A birth of
Nonchalent bravado
Within
A release
A silent scream...
Well, nobody's perfect
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ My beautiful Shadow taking a quiet wander in dreamland
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Carry on Tuesday #57 ~ This week our prompt is the title and opening line of a William Butler Yeats’s poem:
When you are old and grey and full of sleep
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Writer's Island 2010 Prompt #7 ~ The Gift
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Sleepy old and grey
Expected insanity
Fun spice of aging
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Eccentric behaviour
Individuality
The gift of prime time
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Yesterday's Weekend Mailbox #9 is HERE!
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Today's Weekend Nature #4 is HERE!
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A school window with an overhanging blind on the outside
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Writer's Island 2010 ~ Prompt #5 ~ Blind Side
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Blind worlds of shutters
Fractured visibility
Diminished substance
Blind side of journeys
Riding the whim of shot guns
Peripheral blanks
Blindness of senses
Like the white-out of blizzards
Ambiguous slate
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MY NEW MEME
Weekend Mailbox #7 is HERE!
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A full moon viewed in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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PhotoHunt #214 ~ Monthly
Writer's Island 2010 ~ Prompt #4 ~ Imaginary Friend
Carry on Tuesday #54 ~ This week our prompt is the opening line from the Bee Gee’s song My World:
Don’t shed a tear for me
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Monthly orbed moonscape
Golden romance of the sky
Magic for dreamers
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Light for islanders
Close imaginary friend
Love in the night hours
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I'm tuned to moonlight
Please don't shed a tear for me
I'm at peace alone
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MY NEW MEME
Weekend Mailbox #6 is HERE!
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A still from the TV screening TODAY of a moment in Australian History when a young 16 year old Queenslander sailed home into Sydney Harbour.
(The reflected element intruding on the bottom left is my coffee table!
Somehow the yacht becomes like a model boat!
How symbolic!)
She had spent 210 days circumnavigating the world - alone - in a yacht.
Ella was emblazoned on her sails but she was fondly called Pink Lady.
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The little Yanmar engine is going again! A little delicately, but it is running with a water transfer pump rigged up in place of the fuel pump which had stopped working. It's pretty dodgey with all the miss matching hoses but should do the job. Apart from the kick I got from actually managing to fix something, it was quite a relief as we've pretty much had no wind at all the last two days, so the batteries were lower than I'd thought. - A Working Engine - May 10
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I've spent the day on deck watching us surf along with a grin from one seriously cold ear to the other numb one (and right now I'm paying the price with a badly wind burnt face!)
- So Close and What I'm Going To Miss - May 13 2010
The young girl with bubbling enthusiasm right to the end is
JESSICA WATSON.
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman - from the TV screening of an interview onboard with Jessica
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Writer's Island 2010 ~ Prompt #3 ~ The Key
One Single Impression #116 ~ Trembling
Carry on Tuesday #53 ~ This week our prompt is a special one to set the tone for our first birthday here at Carry On Tuesday. Translated from Latin, it’s from good old Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254–184 BC)!
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Sunday Scribblings #215 ~ Recipe
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210 days
An adventure
Lathered with
Trembling swells
Under currents
Wild surf and
Glassy reflections
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210 days
And in the clouds
Cynics come and go
Mouthing
Why's and woes
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210 days
Channelling the spirit of Penelope
Taking her along for the ride
(Odysseus weaves
Latent Time
At home)
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210 days
And in the skies
Cynics come and go
Mouthing
Sighs and no's
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210 days
3 hours late
But Sydney Harbour smiles
And so does the Prime Minister
Welcome Home Little Traveller
We love heroes
But she disagrees
I am no hero
I am completely ordinary
I dared to dream
Reality
The recipe for achieving is
Believing
(Unbelievably
The Prime Minister still smiles)
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210 days
No more
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And somewhere up there
Dry cynics are
Vacuumed
Invisible
Dialogue
Let us celebrate
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Let us celebrate the occasion with
The wine of the moment
Bright sunlight
Trailing
On glistening waters
Offering
Sweet
Silent words
The Key
To Anyone
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Extract from Jessica's last post Across the Line - May 15:
Hi everyone just a really quick update to let you know I’m across the line and have had the most amazing day (mega mega under exaggeration!). I ended up crossing the line a few hours late, to a totally overwhelming welcome, way way beyond anything I’d ever imagined. It would take a very long time to tell you all about it, so I’ll save that for another time. Seeing everyone again and finally getting those hugs was really something special!
I’ll keep writing this blog for a little while, to tell you all about how I’m finding life back on land, but I have a feeling that there’s going to be just too much to tell so you’re going to have to wait for the book!
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ From the TV coverage, a shot of welcoming boats on Sydney Harbour.
Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Early morning at the entrance to Flinders Street station, Melbourne
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Writer's Island 2010 ~ Prompt #2 ~ Stowaway
Shadow Shot Sunday #103
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Social stowaway
Progress needs thoughtful progress
Shadows of sadness
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MY NEW MEME
Weekend Mailbox #4 is HERE!
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