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, August 7, 2010

Spellbound


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Intricate light patterns on the waters at Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Writer's Island 2010 ~ Prompt #15 ~ Spellbound
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It was one of those cluttered Saturday mornings
Intimidating date with the weekly shopping routine
Gorgeous weather mockingly watching our dutiful engagement with
The inevitable

But on the way home
Car boot laden
Somehow the light
Sensuously beckoned

A brief relief by Dromana pier

Magical
Undulating dance of
Light rippling on
The breath of
Water

Spellbound by
The art of light
Spellbound
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Hosted by Rob Kistner

LOCATION: in the Sea of Words
LONGITUDE: Imagination
LATITUDE: Creativity
CLIMATE: Warm winds of wonder

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is wonderful! I love the way you take the poem from the mundane to the sublime. And the visuals are lovely, too.

Stan Ski said...

A truly magical moment.

Mary said...

A beautiful moment indeed. And I just love the photo you chose to highlight your poem!

ruth said...

Oh, beautiful! Beautiful response to the new prompt. Light, water, light on water, always weave spells around me. So glad for the on the way home... that resulted in this lovely post. Thank you

Anonymous said...

Thank you for this one. I just took a break and went outside to sit on the patio for a few minutes, was thinking that the only thing missing was sunlight on water. And came back to this feast. Wonderful,

Elizabeth

Marja said...

Something to be spellbound by Magical

Anonymous said...

I am captivated by this stanza

Magical
Undulating dance of
Light rippling on
The breath of
Water


and it is truly beautifully written^^~

Diane T said...

A magical moment enhanced by a beautiful photograph!

Wayne Pitchko said...

yes..really like what you did with this......thanks for sharing this and Namaste

flaubert said...

Gemma magical and beautiful!
Pamela

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