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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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Our night has limited eyesight...


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Night lights sailing Port Phillip Bay as viewed from Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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3WW #CXLVIII ~ darkness + patronise + weaken
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Lights in the darkness
Just humanity's glow worms
Limited sailing
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Inventions weaken
Never patronise Nature
Cycles recycle
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17 comments:

Lost Mermaid said...

'cycle recycles' lovely phrase !!! liked the post :)

anthonynorth said...

You've captured nature right there.

Sherri B. said...

Wonderful words...the photograph is beautiful!

gautami tripathy said...

I love glow worms!

patronising darkness weakens me

Americanising Desi said...

i love your take :)

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Thom Gabrukiewicz said...

I really like all the lines, catchy and clever.

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Linda Jacobs said...

Glow worms! Perfect!

Bobbie said...

GLOW WORMS!!! Seriously, I SMILED reading this. Excellent writing!

Mark said...

I love the 2nd Haiku. Last line was perfect...

Tumblewords: said...

Nice! Your words are so descriptive and yet allow room for the reader's thought!

quin browne said...

yeah, i'm loving the cycle-recycle line.

Anya Padyam said...

Cycles recycle is a catchy phrase! Nice one:)

PJD said...

I love the night sailing one.

Ann (bunnygirl) said...

Deceptively simple. "Never patronise Nature." I love it!

Stan Ski said...

Don't fix what ain't brokeen.

when the musics over said...

I love the image of humanity's glow worms! Excellent take.

bluebethley said...

Hello, Gemma. We both took on 3www and connected to nature. I love your pictures and this poem fits so well. Also, part of a story I'm working on is set in islands off Bass Strait, so it was fun to see your map. Keep blogging!

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