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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Thursday, May 1, 2008

Horse Sense

Pic by fuzzyfelt ~ Some Horses ~ on Deviant Art
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3WW Prompt #LXXXIV ~ empty highway ignored
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I want to treasure
This precious moment with you
So much to tell you
So litttle time till cold beasts
Bulldoze our slice of heaven
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So much to tell you ~
Remember those chilled mornings
When I stood alone ~
You thought I was lost in sleep
But I was holding our world
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I needed our dawns
Misted with scents of dewed hay ~
I needed our scenes
Swirling with brisk morning runs
Or just dreaming by fence lines
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I needed middays
Ambling for leafy shadows
And soft afternoons
Till a brazen, cold highway
Our slice of heaven ignored
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Sunsets trouble me ~
They close our daylight
Heralding darkness ~
Too soon the waves of night-time
Will invade the shores of day
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But let us not dwell
On questions and future fears
Flamed with empty hope ~
Let's wander to my old tree
And hold our world together
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10 comments:

anthonynorth said...

Beautiful and contemplative.
Nicely done.

TC said...

This was so nicely written. Very beautiful.

Anonymous said...

kind of sad to know they are losing their home but it could be from anyone's perspective, even a human, the last two stanza's my favorite

Pri said...

lovely composition! :)

keep writing...

paisley said...

as you promised... your horse poem.. and it was lovely... so sad,, all this construction taking over the world....

Lucy said...

such a lovely poem

Tammy Brierly said...

This had many beautiful layers and a touch of sadness. I used to write Tankas and enjoyed the form.

Really good!

Tumblewords: said...

Beautifully done! Layered and wise. I'm afraid they're losing their homes, too!

Medhini said...

beautiful poem with a touch of sadness. Loved the lines

Too soon the waves of night-time
Will invade the shores of day

sage said...

nicely done! beautiful.

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