Harmonic or Hostile Woods

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Art in progress found near the showground at Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula
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3WW #CXL ~ folly + hostile + ordinary
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Pre-loved trunks and twigs
Harmonic or hostile woods
Folly or fancy
Just an ordinary place
Extraordinary vision
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Demystifying

Wordle on ReadWritePoem post 30.03.09
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Burning corridors
Multitudinous mingling
Grave burning wild light
Grave light on porcelain bones
The taste of pursed possession
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Cockatoo Circus

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A questioning look from a cockatoo eating some bread on my verandah railing, Dromana Hills, Mornington Peninsula
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3WW #CXXXI ~ crush + knack + varied
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Free entertainment
Varied cockatoo antics
Crushed cares and tensions
Screeching white winged dynamo
The knack of graceful dining
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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A breath of blue light

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A Rosebud morning, Mornington Peninsula
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Inspire Me Thursday prompt ~ Breath
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A breath of blue light
A sea of swirling greyness
A breath of magic
Wild sense of lonely spaces
Wild sense of natural breath
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Inappropriate Language?

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Sign outside Safety Beach Sailing Club, Mornington Peninsula
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Rockin Chair Writers prompt #5
A ~ Tell us what's really on your mind
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Over the past week, inappropriate language has really struck a chord with me. No, it's not swearing or anything like that. It is language that acts as a cue (intentionally or not) for rather alternative, misleading, confronting, dubious, inappropriate? ideas. I'll start with the one that could be unintentional, and then point out the one that verges on cruelty.

1. Liquid Church is a new face on the Mornington Peninsula (I have now been informed it has no connection with the U.S. same-titled version begun in 2001). When I first saw this sign on the roadside, I immediately thought it must be a new way of celebrating "Happy Hour" round the bar by the sea, drinking a few "liquid ambers" or two. After all, there is a bar in the nearby Safety Beach Sailing Club where the group meets. After my pic hunting walk, as soon as I arrived home, I Googled Liquid Church. Of course, all was revealed. But I still believe that the sign sends mixed messages. I am sure I am not the only one who "translates" it this way! The sign badly needs some succinct motto under the logo to ensure it doesn't inspire some tacky jokes!

2. The word BOMB sends shivers down the spines of most of us. So who would write this word on some traveller's luggage?
From The Courier Mail, A LARGE bag with "BOMB" written across it passed through Qantas check-in and security screening for oversized luggage at Brisbane domestic airport yesterday, the Transport Workers Union said.
While most reports berate the slack screening at Brisbane airport and the poor security profile Australia presents to the world as a result of this incident, no one seems to be be reporting what kind of person would do this and for what purpose? This brazen act, flinging a challenge to authorities, could be funny if the implications were not so serious!
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Safety Beach Sailing Club, viewed from the top of the new, "arty" road tunnel
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In liquid landscapes
Wild free spirits free flying
Long for some air space
Parachuting bombs away
What a bomb of an idea
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Critter Realities

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Cat in the front yard of a Dromana home
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Camera Critters #17
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Cosily ensconced
Regal watcher of traffic
Bearded lone wisdom
But all is not as it seems
Reality fluctuates
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Pic by Gemma Wiseman
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Ensconced on jet skis
Languishing in silent pose
Alternate wisdom
All is now slowly revealed
Some reality wavers
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Chocolate Chips

Prompt for Poefusion's Monday Mural ~ Carvings image by brianharnett on Photobucket
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Chocolate pen tops

Wee chocolate garden gnomes

Chocolate wind chimes

Quaint chocolate icy pops

Chocolate thingummybobs

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Chocolate dummies
Chocolate all day suckers
Chocolate candles
Whatever they really are
Make sure they are chocolate
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And yet I see more
In these wizard mouseketeers
Something of legend ~
I hear and see no evil
So I must speak no evil
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Remember puddle dancing?

Pic on Flickr by Gemma Wiseman ~ Port Phillip Bay glimpses on a winter's afternoon
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Simply Snickers Prompt ~ umbrella under puddle promise
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Under powder skies
Limping with stray thoughts of rain
Moody blue waters
Simmer with stormy heartbeats
Glistening in pools of light
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Leaves cramp in darkness
Hoping the promise of rain
Answers summer thirsts ~
Too long dreaming of old days
When life was free to be green
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And I remember
In days of youthful delight
When rain was normal ~
An umbrella was ready
And boots danced in a puddle
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Soft Distance

Pic on Flickr by Gemma Wiseman ~ Port Phillip Bay from Arthurs Seat, Victoria, Australia ~ 3.05.08

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Easy Street Prompt #165 ~ At a distance

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From a soft distance

Where I've been seems far away

Sorrows are small lights

Glittering on dark waters

Waiting for the tides to turn

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Fresh Identity ~ Celebrating My First Digital Photo

Pic on Flickr by Gemma Wiseman ~ Misty Morning ~ 3.5.08
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Writer's Island Prompt ~ Identity
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Love mystic mornings
Shrouded in tiers of grey lights
Waiting for voices
Like a hushed moment in time
Like life living a first breath
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I am mystic wells
Laced in ancient grey questions
Waiting for voices
Like strange haunting memories
Like new risings of old realms
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FOOTNOTE: This is my first digital pic taken from the verandah of my home in the first lights of morning.
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Flash Fiction Flowering

Sydney Harbour New Year's Eve Fireworks ~ pic from Sydney Morning Herald
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One Single Impression prompt ~ Flowering
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Flowering firelights
Streaming, glowing party waves
Fast forward living
From birth to bloom to dying
Flash fiction corroboree
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Horse Sense

Pic by fuzzyfelt ~ Some Horses ~ on Deviant Art
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3WW Prompt #LXXXIV ~ empty highway ignored
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I want to treasure
This precious moment with you
So much to tell you
So litttle time till cold beasts
Bulldoze our slice of heaven
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So much to tell you ~
Remember those chilled mornings
When I stood alone ~
You thought I was lost in sleep
But I was holding our world
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I needed our dawns
Misted with scents of dewed hay ~
I needed our scenes
Swirling with brisk morning runs
Or just dreaming by fence lines
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I needed middays
Ambling for leafy shadows
And soft afternoons
Till a brazen, cold highway
Our slice of heaven ignored
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Sunsets trouble me ~
They close our daylight
Heralding darkness ~
Too soon the waves of night-time
Will invade the shores of day
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But let us not dwell
On questions and future fears
Flamed with empty hope ~
Let's wander to my old tree
And hold our world together
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Wild Streak

Pic on Deviant Art by killorcast ~ Light streak along Edsa Highway, Manila
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Two for Tuesdays prompt ~ lesson streak
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Like a wild lesson
Sliced with a glowing hot streak
Like rich, deep darkness
Knifed with a kaleidoscope
Of burning, living hell's coals
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Hollow midnight hours
Time to face inner demons
Time to contemplate
Time to wonder on secrets
Time to close Pandora's box
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Stop! Drink the Moment!

Pic from Top Left Pixel ~ the beaches, by the Lake Ontario, east of downtown Toronto.
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3WW Prompt #LXXXIII ~ picture reflected stop
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Occasionally
A picture tells half stories ~
There are rare moments
Of deep reflected secrets
When there's more than meets the eye
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Summer's sands are iced ~
Surf is a flurry of snow ~
Slipping tired fencelines
Drift silently to somewheres
Locked into magic white earths
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But frosty landscapes
Arced, tangled in grizzled shapes
Are ribboned in light ~
The humble path is a stop
To walk in a rainbow sky
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Mythical Blues

Pic by lxzpartwork Aphrodite from Photobucket
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Surreal innocence
Limpid dreams of innocence
Deathly innocence
Like sweet blue melancholy
Like flying on dolphin wings
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Like frozen delight
Like drifting on mirror moons
Like floating beauty
Lonely music of waters
Mythical streams of lovers
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Poetic Pieces of Life ~ Nails

Pic by circle-of-fire on Deviant Art ~ Purple Nails
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Cool purple scratchies
Glamour at the finger tips
Tapering wonder
Cruel, vicious connections
With purple blood on a Cross
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Poetic Pieces of Light ~ Ribbon

Pic by IsaacMcDougal on Deviant Art ~ Ribbon
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In response to Two for Tuesdays Prompt #7 Truth and Sign
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Narrow strip of cloth
Weaving like gentle water
Pole of light streaming
Tiny loop of pinned colours
Hoping for a miracle
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Poetic Pieces of Life ~ Jaywalker

Pic The Age ~ Winds batter city, suburbs ~ Mornington 2.4.08
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Busy city streets
Challenge the oblivious
Nightmare in daylight
But jay walk in stormy waves
Is risking nature's slaughter
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Poetic Pieces of Life ~ Window Frame

Pic by honz 12 on Deviant Art ~ Window View

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Rugged window frame

Convenient means to views

Forgotten sadness

Secrets of your artistry

Drown in the beauty elsewhere

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