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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Sunday, March 28, 2010

A Song for Two and a Postscript


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A slightly dusty 2 o'clock...
Time and times just slightly out of line...
Dust to dust...
~
Haiku Bones #16 ~ Two O'Clock
~

Two feet for walking
Two organs to hear and see
Two arms seek embrace
~
Two hands to create
Two shoulders to cry upon
Two knees to kneel
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Two mournful bell tones
Two hours beyond deep midnight
Two o'clock curfew
~

7 comments:

John (@bookdreamer) said...

interesting take on the theme. I like the twingling of image and text. Here be mine.

Stan Ski said...

One mind to ignore the curfew... if I stay awake long enough!

Magical Mystical Teacher said...

Gemma, this is a lovely collation of reflections. You've done well! (I'm baffled by the prompt at the moment and don't know if I'll ever become "unbaffled.")

spiritsoflena said...

Creative approach; I enjoyed your poem!

gautami tripathy said...

Intriguing verses!

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rdl said...

very nice!

Anonymous said...

2 o'clock is a perfect time for contemplation and you have set a timeless chime....

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