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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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Unframed or Framed

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Safety Beach view of Mount Martha with coming storm
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One Single Impression prompt ~ Transience or Permanence
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In no time at all
Nature
In a black mood
Can drown
All sign of human permanence
With the leering light
Of a dark smile
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Safety Beach view of Mount Martha
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In time
Humanity
In desperate mood
Can frame
All sign of nature's transience
With the worried lines of
A wired brow
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7 comments:

SandyCarlson said...

Gemma,
Thanks for these this week. The dark smile and the wire brow sure do have a long and uncertain history together. Your poetry is marvelous, and your blog is beautiful.

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Raven said...

I love the wonderful irony of this pair... and their truth. Right now I'm on facing the aftermath of that "dark smile." As I mourn the corpse of my lightning felled tree.

Amber said...

Your photos and words are absolutely beautiful....soul searching.

Geraldine said...

Both of these works were wonderful Gemma! Great use of great prompts. Loved the photos too. WEll done. G

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paisley said...

With the leering light
Of a dark smile

this set of lines blows me away... i will have to save this and maybe work them in somewhere... just love it!!!!!

Hey Harriet said...

Wow! That poem is wonderful. I'm totally in awe of your writing. Thanks so much for sharing your words!

Anonymous said...

Your words are so true. The years that I lived on the edge of the continent I was always in awe seeing the work of erasure done by nature on all of man's works.

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