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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Showing posts with label Haiku Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haiku Friday. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2009

Colour Your World...


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Rosella just beginning to take flight from my garden in the Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Inspire Me Thursday ~ Positivity
Haiku Friday meme ~ Hosted by It's a Jan's Life this week!
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Take time to be free
Colour tastebuds with bright wings
Feel scents of music

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Friday, July 31, 2009

Unravelling Threads


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A statue in the garden at the Tyabb Arts and Crafts Village, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Friday meme
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Chemical chaos
Unravelling tender threads
Limp fabric of love
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P.S. Inspired by Noah the Great's post Help;
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Suspension


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Tradesman on the roof of a shop in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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3WW #CXLVI ~ drip + hypnotic + sulk
Haiku Friday meme
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Hypnotic clouds sulk
Suspended animation
Arced, lined lamp posts drip
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Getting to Know the Natives


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Happy hour for wild cockatoos on my verandah railing, Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Friday meme
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It is summer time
Living is cold and windy
Neglected season
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It's cockatoo time
Dusk always means waves of wings
Happy dining hour
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Wind blown cockatoo on my verandah roof!
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Friday, December 12, 2008

Christmas Revival


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Window in Wingback Books, a pre-loved bookshop in Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Friday meme
Poefusion's Friday 5 prompt ~ blemish + eject + flinch + pout + dot
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Small Christmas window
Books waiting for love again
Christmas soul revival
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A white dot for snow
Cartoon Christmas fantasy
Mischievous spirit
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Blossom Street may flinch
Christmas letters eject from hearts
Just entertainment
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Curled corner blemish
Tchaikovsky's sugar plum dance
Eternal music
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Small Christmas window
Old books pout with dignity
Christmas soul revival
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Friday, December 5, 2008

Fleshplumes


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Young child on Dromana beach, Mornington Peninsula
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Tuesday Title prompt ~ Fleshplumes
Haiku Friday meme

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Young skin drinks the sun
Fleshplumes are signs of aging
Creams and shady paints
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Musical Identities


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A view from Dromana of Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Friday meme ~ hosted by the delightful Christina at A Mommy Story
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Music of dark leaves
Scratching out a melody
Blue beauty plays on
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Friday, November 21, 2008

Lights and Lights


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Lights in Balnarring carpark, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Friday prompt
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Weekend lights begin
Teasing happiness and peace
Winking bright freedom
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Personal candles
Flickering, glowing, burning
Steady real freedom
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Friday, October 3, 2008

Hiatus


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Front of Dromana Hotel ~ Mornington Peninsula
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3WW prompt #CV ~ deliberate + intervene + nourish
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Haiku Friday prompt
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Weekends intervene
Work tensions watch in the wings
Time out for time in
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Hotel fortitude
Deliberate numb sunset
Artificial joy
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Celebrate night life
Wines nourish blurred visions till
Return to sunrise
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Meeting Place


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Young boy dreaming by the sea ~ Dromana, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Friday prompt
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Young boy dreaming dreams
Seas waiting for dreams to sail
Horizon meeting
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Sunlight on My Pillow


Setting sunlight at Balnarring, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Friday prompt
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Purl greys pillow light
Pool of sun dips into sleep
Seagull dreams alone
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Friday, September 12, 2008

White Shadows


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ School window
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Haiku Friday prompt
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Window on sky worlds
Sometimes white shadows passing
Counterbalancing
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Friday, September 5, 2008

Wattle Golds


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Wattle golds of Spring at Arthurs Seat, Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Friday prompt
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Winding roads sunlit
Mountains cascade with wattles
Golden worlds of Spring
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Friday, July 25, 2008

Old war of the worlds

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ School carpark early on a foggy morning
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Haiku Friday prompt
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Old war of the worlds
Brazen machine meets Nature
Outcomes are pending
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Silent, bold stand-off
Countdowns in stubborn motion
Only one winner
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Mists creep in slowly
Like a blanket of blindness
Crossings are shrinking
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Friday, July 18, 2008

Beyond the Waves


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Dromana beach on Port Phillip Bay, with Mount Martha in the background ~ Mornington Peninsula
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Haiku Friday + Scenic Sunday prompts
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Seated sense of loss
Dreaming on songline waters
Loneliness broken
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Friday, July 11, 2008

Keyhole Garden ~ Haiku Friday + Rockin' Chair Writers


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Keyhole garden
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Haiku Friday prompt
Rockin' Chair Writers prompt #2 ~ If your blog is your home show us around

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Another garden
Changing tones of keyhole light
Another insight
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My world is many gardens in many lights. There are sky gardens, gardens of the sea, gardens of the earth and gardens of the inner spirit. My blog home is walking the fine line between inner and outer worlds ~ always looking to right and left, comparing the two.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Crystal Light ~ Haiku Friday

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Dromana beach in early morning light
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Grey winter morning
Waiting for the tide to turn
Burst of crystal light
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Dromana beach in darkening morning light
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Darkening morning
Waiting for my life to turn
Beam of crystal light
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A place of beauty in the Western Tiers

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Tasmania
View near Blackwood Park Cottages, Mole Creek

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New Landscapes
New Worlds

Archive of Blog Quotes

  • A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
  • Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
  • Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
  • Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
  • Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman

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