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, July 4, 2008

Signs of Candlelight

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Magic Candle Light
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Weekend Wordsmith prompt ~ It's a sign
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Flickering candlelight ~
In a room of dark shapes and shadows ~
Is a sign of
Comforting warmth
The embrace of peace
The sign of calm
In the eye of storms
~
Sometimes
A parade of candles
Burning in
A quiet
Sacred space
Are signs of
Memory
Willing the past
To live on
~
But a candle
Burning
Lonely in
A dark window of night
Is a sign of
Silent
Desperate
Aching
Prayer ~
Willing a loved traveller
A safe return
Home
~

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Candle glowing in the window
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3 comments:

Bonnie Jacobs said...

Nice application of the prompt.

Did you see how I changed last week's prompt? I plan to leave it that way ... so people who read the comments will know that something happened.

http://weekendwordsmith.blogspot.com/2008/06/it-didnt-happen.html

: )

San said...

found it very soothing for some reason. the flow is so clam. thats probably it. :)

White Rose said...

This reminded me of leaving the front light on for my Dad on those snowy nights. Hoping he makes it home safely!

Nicely done!

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