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 2, 2010

A Blistered Season


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Wintry Dromana beach, Mornington Peninsula
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Friday Flash 55
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Icy waves reached for the melancholic tread of her blistered, naked feet.
Her blood-shot eyes focused on the slithering golden glisten of light knifing the horizon of the bay.
Her numbed mind tuned to a silvered manic cycle of “What if’s”.
Her soul was locked in black regret.
Winning now is not winning for always.
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7 comments:

Brian Miller said...

nice 55...there is a lot of wisdom in that last line...and can be a bit chilling to.

my 55 is up!

PattiKen said...

Nice one. I can feel that there is a story hiding beneath the words here. Sounds like it didn't have a happy ending.

John (@bookdreamer) said...

Yep good advice to the politicians who all end in failure except those that die young!

My 55 here

A Wild Thing said...

Deep thoughts my spirit sister...I love the combination of earth, water and fire...I assume the wind is in the heart...I hope you have a wonderful weekend dear friend!

I'm off on another adventure...and out the door running and laughing!!!

Hope you are too!!!
SMOOCH!!!
s

Monkey Man said...

Love the visuals you wrote. Thanks for stopping by to read mine so I could find my way here.

G-Man said...

Are all you Aussi's fantastic writers and poets?
I do believe you are.
Loved your deep and soulful 55
I miss Paisley...
Thanks for playing today, and please join us again...G

Unknown said...

Beautiful image and words.

I've been reading Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country this week. The Mornington Peninsula one of the places he talked about.

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