AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Sunday, May 4, 2008

Take Another Look

Pic on Flickr by Gemma Wiseman ~ Verandah ornaments 6
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Totally Optional Prompts ~ Transformation
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I am just a log
Trimmed for burning
But too large to give up my life
To fire and ash
In the wood heater
~
And I am just a brown pot
Encrusted with floral posies ~
I should be a bird bath
But somehow
My ornamentals
Deter birdlife
From finding
Joy in me
~
And we are just twigs
Refuse of trees
Fit only to return to dust ~
But maybe
We could spark
Some higher purpose
For just a brief moment
Of glory
As kindling
To inspire warmth ~
So we wonder
Is that all there is
For us?
~
Yet
Together
We become one ~
One new life
One new purpose
One new identity ~
Breathing a sense of
Unique interest
Perhaps a little beauty
In some humble corner
Of the verandah
~


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  • A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
  • Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
  • Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
  • Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
  • Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman

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