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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Saturday, September 20, 2008

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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ early Spring at Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula
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Poefusion Friday 5 prompt ~
(From Dictionary.com)
flivver ~
1. Older Slang. an automobile, esp. one that is small, inexpensive, and old.
2. Slang. something of unsatisfactory quality or inferior grade.
fricative ~
1. (of a speech sound) characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted or partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract; spirantal; spirant.
–noun 2. Also called spirant. a fricative consonant, as (th), (v), or (h).
frowsy ~
1. Unkempt; slovenly: frowzy clothes; a frowzy professor.
2. Having an unpleasant smell; musty: a frowzy pantry.
fledgling ~
1. a young bird just fledged.
2. an inexperienced person.
–adjective 3. young, new, or inexperienced: a fledgling diver.
farl ~
1. noun Scot. ~ a thin, circular cake of flour or oatmeal.
2. obsolete v.t. ~ same as furl ~ to gather into a compact roll and bind securely, as a sail against a spar or a flag against its staff.
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Pleiades was invented by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine's lead editor, in 1999. It is a single titled poem whose seven lines, six syllables each start with the first letter of the poem title.
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Frozen Spring morning
Fledgling awakening
Fractured, tired country lane
Faded flivver of old
Frowsy homes struggle life
Fricative hushed voices
Flowers still arch and farl
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5 comments:

paisley said...

sounds like a lazy summer morning.....

carole said...

I thought those words were so unusual that we'd all come up with something similar. How wrong I was.

Maria Verivaki said...

great poem today, well chosen words

poefusion said...

This is beautiful. I love the picture you took. It compliments your Pleiades. I agree with Carole how everyone has come up with something different each time. And, the hours you must have spent watching the flowers bloom and close back. Nice job. Have a nice day.

A Wild Thing said...

I am always learning something new and magical off your blog...again, thanks for the lesson teach...beautiful unusual words, even their descriptions are interesting, lots of new words to learn.

sharon

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