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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Monday, June 9, 2008

On the Edge of Night

Flickr pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Morning light on Dromana beach ~ 1
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Sunday Scribblings prompt ~ My Nights
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I love the chameleon face of night
When begrudgingly
She bequeaths
Prime time
To day light
~
I love
Dark shapes
Stamping
The dawn glows
With a seal of
Stubbornness
~
I love
Purling grey clouds
Softly
Taking
The dark side ~
And only a hint
Of truce in
The mirror of
The sea
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Morning light over Dromana beach


4 comments:

paisley said...

oh i love that first stanza.. i never thought about it in those terms ,, but what a wonderful way to describe it....

gautami tripathy said...

A great opening. I like this..

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Jane Doe said...

'I love the chameleon face of night
When begrudgingly
She bequeaths
Prime time
To day light'

Such a beautiful first stanza, the perfect opening for this poem!

Tammie Lee said...

lovely

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