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Dreamtime

Longing for the rainforest, the smell of life eternal springs and wafts across the oceans deep to my chilly home to bring.. images of orchards bright in high trees with roots a dangling of butterflies, I've never seen and crocodiles prey wrangling. Longing for the forest in spring the eastern coast of Australia, the gushing falls high above all Kingfishers dressed in regalia. I dream of Daintree and sky walks above the forest's fecund floor of mangrove trees riverside, rousing morning doves galore.. Ghadja I, ghost spirit white, I dream of Australian spring time far across the deepest sea down under I walk in dreamtime. *In the animist framework of Australian Aboriginal mythology, Dreamtime is a sacred era in which ancestral totemic spirit beings created the world.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 9/11/2012 9:54:00 AM
Wow... it sounds like the spirits did a good job! Nice poem... Terry
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Date: 9/6/2012 6:49:00 PM
A fabulous write, Debbie! Congrats on your win! Love, Kim
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Date: 9/6/2012 11:25:00 AM
Congratulations, Debbie on your super win in Tracie's contest, " Spring in Australia ". You are right, we are the only ones writing about Australia. I adore the way you tell your story. Your poetry describes Australia in its actuality: beautiful and wild...as you take us with you on that wonderful journey. Thanks for your encouraging comments. Have a great weekend. Love, Andrew.
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Date: 9/5/2012 7:54:00 PM
DEBBIE, congratulations with your xool poem in Tracie's "SPRING" contest.. always :-) PD
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Date: 9/5/2012 5:46:00 AM
Congratulations on your win in Tracie's "Spring Is In The Air" contest Debbie. Love, Carol
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Date: 9/3/2012 2:21:00 PM
debbie, what a tapestry of imagery... So thought provoking... special congrats!... :) huggs!
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Date: 9/3/2012 5:51:00 AM
Congratulations Debbie, makes me homesick and I've never been xx
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Date: 9/1/2012 5:15:00 AM
wonderful Debbie, having lived there for 8 years, i yearn again, after reading this, love the last line of the poem, a beautiful finale
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Date: 8/31/2012 7:16:00 PM
Oh!....paragraph 5 line 1.... fave!
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Date: 8/31/2012 7:13:00 PM
Deb...I too believe in "dreamtime" as Aboriginies in Aussie believe....&know own a bunch of bullroarers and 'rangs from my brothers down under...but can't seem to get the circular breathing deal down on how to blow my didgeridoo....cool poem! Jimbo
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Date: 8/31/2012 3:04:00 PM
This is superbly written with descriptiveness I could have never conjured. I believe you have an edge in the contest with this entry.
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Date: 8/31/2012 12:46:00 PM
BEAUTIFUL one on the spring of Australia. I hope our poems did not have to specifically target Australia's springtime, but if that is what she is looking for, I think she would find the best one of all is yours right here.
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Date: 8/31/2012 8:12:00 AM
On another poetry site, I got to know more than a few Australians... they are a special breed living in a beautiful land! This is extremely well written, Debbie... love and hugs, Jack
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Date: 8/31/2012 7:58:00 AM
This poem is truly so visual and beautiful, you are a wonderful writer and I want to thank you Debbie for honouring my poem, Embrace the Cross in your Bi-lingual Contest. Love Constance
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