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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Monday, August 18, 2008

The Underdog in a Bottle


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Relic on an early, wintry Sunday morning in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Matinee Muse prompt #5 ~ Spirit of the Underdog
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A lonely brown bottle
Lingering in a
Plain
Torn
Paperbag
On a
Shadowed
Empty
Table
Deep
In
The weeping hours of
A chilly
Sunday morning
Is like
A relic ~
A small
Small
Requiem to
The spirit of
The underdog
~

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great photo essay and poem. It's hard to think chilly when we're watching Tropical Storm Fay move into Florida.

Stan Ski said...

So many underdogs - I think everyone has a bottle stashed away for that victory celebration they just never seem to achieve.

A Wild Thing said...

Hard to imagine a bottle of champagne in a brown bag on a picnic table, a definite sign of class, I like 'spirit of the underdog', it's a little sad.

sharon

Hey Harriet said...

Is that your lunch? ;D

I love this image & the poem!

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