A Stardust Lion

A lion waiting for the time when he performs in Stardust Circus, Rosebud.
This is a travelling circus that appears on my peninsula in the Christmas holiday season.
Strangely, I have never been to a circus.
I am not really fond of the idea that animals are used.


A kind of sad face
A wish to find some free breath
In open spaces 



Linking to:
Straight from the Camera Sunday
Haiku Heights - Wish

Vertical Anomalies

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A bird (with only one usable wing) in a cage at Crystal Ocean Wildlife Shelter, Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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PhotoHunt #208 ~ Vertical
Camera Critters #105
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So strange

Peripheral vision means an awareness of
All that is here and there
A horizontal skill

A journey from A to B
(Usually a horizontal)
May be a mapped formula
From here to there

A vertical usually means
Some structure
(Natural or unnatural)
Connected with earth
(Actually or relatively)
Rising in perpendicular symmetry

Yet a horizon
(A virtual horizontal)
Is associated with
Leaving here for
Where?
Almost a virtual vertical
Rising hope
Rising dreams
A Clayton's vertical
Lifting from
Here to

Up there

And the real anomaly
The parallel verticals of a bird cage
To a bird
Mean a semi-useful horizontal ladder
To a human
The verticals are a convenient containment
And the spaces are little more than
A scratch point
(Or a complementary
Nipping point)

Strange
So very strange
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Fleeting View from a Latticed Cage

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~
The circus has arrived at Rosebud, a small coastal township on the Mornington Peninsula.
One lion rests in a large cage with an electrified fence and a ball.
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Haiku Bones ~ Prompt #2 ~ Fleeting
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Summer by the sea
Wild soul in a latticed cage
A glimpse of freedom
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