I love a sunburnt Country...
No matter how far I travel, what wonders I see. This land will forever be my Heart and Soul. My blood is in its soil, My tears dampen its dust. My Island Home.
On an internal flight, I was reminded of a poem.
The love of field and coppice
Of green and shaded lanes,
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins.
Strong love of grey-blue distance,
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know, but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged 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!
The stark white ring-barked forests,
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon,
Green tangle of the brushes
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops,
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When, sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine
She pays us back threefold.
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze…
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand
though Earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
-Dorothey Mackeller-
Richard Walter 01/12/2007 10:43
Great Picture,Great Poem, I love a
Sunburnt Country!!
lg Richard W
Vesela Maleeva 28/11/2007 14:36
Lovely poem and image,our world like a dollhouse
from so high above.
Ves
Wayne Tsipouras 26/11/2007 20:18
@Sunny Moon, Thanks. It was a small plane on a flight to Sydney.@Pascal, same for you my friend, Cheers! :-)
P r i s m a 26/11/2007 13:46
I know what you mean :-)) !!!fine composition from Pic an Poem
liebe Grüße Marianne
SunnyN 26/11/2007 12:43
Ich auch! Ich auch!Schönes Gedicht!
Pascal Viyer 26/11/2007 10:47
Nice poem in image, WayneExcellent text too...
And OK for a glass of Bordeaux with some french cheese :o))
Have a nice Aussie week, dear friend
amitié
p^v
Sunny Moon 26/11/2007 7:59
Nice landscape, did you fly by a helicopter? :-)