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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Friday, June 6, 2008

Playground Truce

Pic on Flickr by Gemma Wiseman ~ Playground in Mornington park
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Writer's Island prompt ~ Reconciliation
~

A child's playground
Snuggled under friendly
Shady
Trees
With sea views
To the horizon
Is a great place to
Reconcile
The child within
And the child
Without
~
It is a great place to
Let the earth
Of the mind
Float
In the innocent waves of
The spirit
~

On my AuraGem Songlines, I have written another, somewhat sad poem related to a child called Toy Library. A pic of Mornington Toy Library is included.


3 comments:

JP/deb said...

I love how you've captured the essence of childhood & the children who live around us and within us ... lovely, JP/deb

paisley said...

uh, oh.. there is a spark of inspiration here!!!!! thanks gemma!!!!

Head Cookie said...

A playground is always a fun place a great place to make memories.

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