Soul Shadow

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A rest area along the walkway at Martha Cove marina, Mornington Peninsula
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Sensational Haiku Wednesday prompt ~ Shadow
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I thought I knew you
The answer to my darkness
My eternal sunlight


I loved my new dawn
But somehow ignored sunset
Natural passing


That new darkness
Yesterday's reality
Shadow of my soul
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NOTE:
My beautiful grey cat is named Shadow!
But I chose not to make a connection with her because she gets a regular
feature spot here every Sunday!
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Hosted by Jenn

Puppet Perspectives

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A horse on a property at Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Heights #37 ~ Puppet
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You dream in your world
And I am grazing in mine
Wonder who's fenced in


You graze in your world
While I am wand'ring in mine
And who's a puppet
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Haiku Heights is hosted by Leo

Tortured Subway Souls

Wordle by Gemma Wiseman
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Dodge Writes ~ Today's Prompt ~ Use These Words
BETWEEN, YOUNG, TORTURED, ENLIGHTENMENT, JINGLE, PRESTIGIOUS, SILVERTONGUED, GLITTER, SUBWAY, MERGE
The rules are you must use at least 8 of the 10 words, as they are given, with no changes. You may do prose or any form of poetry.
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Between heat and cold
Bold and banal questions merge
Is there a way out

Silvertongued glitter
Tortured subway souls jingle
Young enlightenment
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Today's Prompt is hosted by JL Dodge

Tea Party

Picture Prompt ~ Tea Party Illustration by: Fernando Falcone~
Monday's Child #38~

Tea party for three
White Rabbit, are there no more
It seems so bizarre

Tea cups and saucers
I count four empty waiting
Do you expect friends

And another thing
Should there be some party food
That would be more fun

Mad Hatter scares me
He seems to be a bully
Why does he do this

Please help me Rabbit
I don't understand this world
Guide me to answers~


Monday's Child - (an illustration from a children's book is the writing prompt) - is hosted by bkmackenzie

Sheltered by Light

Image by James Rainsford
Click on the image to view a gallery of his photos
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One Shoot Sunday picture prompt
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I eke out my days
Fashioned in yesterday's styles
Expression on ice

Curiosity
Weathering in weathered worlds
Like a lone watcher

Birds seem to need me
Passing perch for passing dreams
It's good to feel life

Sometimes I'm lucky
Wings cast a halo of light
I so want to smile
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One Shoot Sunday is hosted by Dustus @ One Stop Poetry

Flowers on the Door

Monday's Child #37 ~ Picture prompt illustration by Clara Burd
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Basket of flowers
Leave the secret of beauty
Then tip-toe away
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Here's the gift of Spring
Remember the light of warmth
Open your cold door
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Monday's Child - (an illustration from a children's book is the writing prompt) - is hosted by bkmackenzie

Passing Thoughts #13 ~ For Christchurch ~ Again!

Pic by Gemma Wiseman taken from TV Channel 9 coverage
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Passing Thoughts #13 ~ For Christchurch ~ Again!
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Only September
We reached out to our Christchurch
We stood by her side

The earth moved that day
Just over four months ago
Eerie trembling worlds

Today the earth moved
Fragmenting lives and lifestyles
And the church spire fell

Caring trembling hands
Reaching out to our Christchurch
We are here always
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** Thinking of bloggers Stoneweaver and Marja from Dutch Corner in Christchurch
Ref also Passing Thoughts #7 ~ For Christchurch

Framework

Image by Sean McCormick
Click on image to go to his website
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One Shoot Sunday Picture Prompt
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Eroded living
Rocky memories cluster
Birth of new beauty

Open boundary
Landscapes in focal fragment
New unchartered frame

I was there awhile
A small stone like a small cairn
Perhaps you'll find me
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NOTE: If you would like to experience a wilder rollercoaster ride, read
Dustus' Entering Threshold.
My comment on his post: Dynamic! Like a torrent of literary minds and raw adventurers and those who need acting in their lives! All falling in some mesmerising heap leaving a mass grave at some threshold! This rattled me in an exhilerating way!


One Shoot Sunday is hosted by Dustus @ One Stop Poetry

Transition

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A young happy face enjoying a ride at the celebration of Australia Day near Dromana pier on Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula.
This day seems to mark the close of school summer holidays for me.
I return to school tomorrow while our students return to school next Tuesday.
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Sensational Haiku Wednesday prompt ~ Transition
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Last festivities
Australia Day turning point
Changing of the guard

Return to school life
Like crossing territories
Lifestyle transition

Holiday spirit
Like a sad longing murmur
Birth of memories
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Hosted by Jenn

Do You Know What I Know?

Magpie Tales #49 ~ Picture by Willow ~ My great aunt Winnie Hanna with friends and skates (right)~ Ervin Township, Howard County, Indiana, 1905
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Blurred generation
Gowned mannequins face the snow
Invisible past

But in the 1600's
Bold forebears shared adventures
Famed Three Musketeers
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Hosted by Willow

Us

One Shoot Picture prompt ~ Image by Katherine Forbes
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Shadow connections
Smoothing corrugated worlds
Our secret mural

Our different shoes
Prime points in a pyramid
A frame for our souls

Facing each other
Shaping lone spaces with love
As one in blue jeans
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One Shoot Sunday is hosted by Dustus @ One Stop Poetry

Carousel Insomnia

Created in Picnik by Gemma Wisemnan
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Carry on Tuesday # 88 ~ Our prompt this week is part of the closing sentence of the 1950 film The Glass Menagerie:
And that is how I remember them.........
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Haiku Heights #26 ~ Insomnia
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One Single Impression #151 ~ Carnival
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One Shot Wednesday Week #29

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Carnival insomnia
Sharp tinkle of carousels
Wind up and wind out

Bright musical lights
How I remember them
Shambles in flashback
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Hosted by Keith's Ramblings


Haiku Heights is hosted by Leo


Hosted by Andrée and SandyCarlson


One Shot Wednesday is hosted by American Poets Brian Miller, Leslie Moon & Adam Dustus and British Poet Pete Marshall

Satriani's Music in Poetry

Pic created in Picnik by Gemma Wiseman
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Friday Poetically @ One Stop Poetry ~ Joe Satriani's Always With Me, Always With You ~ music prompt
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Soul strings in the sky
Abandon conformist shoes
Flying welled secrets

I give my lyrics
Reaching for yours on the winds
Our music always
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Friday Poetically is hosted by Brian Miller @ One Stop Poetry

Abundance in Celestial Destiny

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A roadway to Martha Cove with Arthurs Seat mountain in the distance, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Heights #25 ~ Celestial
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Writer's Island #2 for 2011 ~ Destiny
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One Single Impression #150 ~ Abundance
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Belief in new life
Celestial destiny
Joy in abundance

Belief in new hope
Celestial abundance
Inner destiny
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Haiku Heights is hosted by Leo


Hosted by Andrée and SandyCarlson


Hosted by Rob Kistner

LOCATION: in the Sea of Words
LONGITUDE: Imagination
LATITUDE: Creativity
CLIMATE: Warm winds of wonder

Beginning

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ New agapanthus of summer in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Heights #24 ~ Beginning
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Beginning to grow
Finding personal colours
Finding unique space

Beginning to be
Like peeking over a fence
Hesitant wonder
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Haiku Heights is hosted by Leo

Spirit of Celebration

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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Hosted by Rob Kistner

LOCATION: in the Sea of Words
LONGITUDE: Imagination
LATITUDE: Creativity
CLIMATE: Warm winds of wonder

In the beginning...

Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Carry on Tuesday #81 ~ This week we have the first line of Elton John and Tim Rice’s song from The Lion King, The Circle of Life:
From the day we arrive on the planet...
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In the beginning
When first we knew planet earth
We longed to explore

Some soared to great heights
Some dived to darkest of depths
Some just walked the walk

In the beginning
When first we breathed on the earth
Life became a wheel

A wheel of fortune
A wheel of raw heat and ice
A wheel of reason
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Hosted by Keith's Ramblings

Friday Revival

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Late last Friday afternoon, this musician was outside the Dromana Hub Shopping Centre, Mornington Peninsula
The sounds of his pulsing soft and bold jazz/folk/avant garde rhythms were electrifying!
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SOOC Sunday #106
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Haiku Heights #18 ~ Stranger
This week the theme is suggested by Gemma of Greyscale Territory
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Just a thin stranger
Playing his soul through music
Charming diversion

In a late moment
Lost smiling dancing rhythms
Remembered to pulse
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Hosted by Jan @ murrieta365.com


Three Lines from Your Heart
A Haiku Art
Hosted by Leo

Designer Web

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A web near my laundry steps
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Macro Monochrome #53
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One Single Impression #142 ~ Echoes
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Tangled mesh of lines
Web of artistic design
Spider's survival

Echoes are like webs
Threads of waiting memories
Fragile connections
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Macro Monochrome is hosted by Birgitta Rudenius


Hosted by Andrée and SandyCarlson

Cleansing Burn Out

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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Hosted by Andrée and SandyCarlson


Three Lines from Your Heart
A Haiku Art
Hosted by Leo


Hosted by Keith's Ramblings


Hosted by Rob Kistner

LOCATION: in the Sea of Words
LONGITUDE: Imagination
LATITUDE: Creativity
CLIMATE: Warm winds of wonder