The Song Remains

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The Song Remains...

Perching on a blooming branch of rose
The bird sang a melodious song

Spreading the cry of joy
Across the void of silence

The rose vanished,
Without leaving a trace
Of its colour,
Of its smell;






But when the bird vanished,
Its song remained.

The Song Remains
by Mahmud Kianush
1934-
Iranian Poet






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Kookaburra

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I was walking over the hill
this afternoon
and noticed this sign
at a block of holiday apartments

and sure enough
right out the front
I saw this...
I am pretty sure
I know who it is...
Do You?

Another friendly kookaburra

who laughs



just like this...



Happy Days
everyone




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An Old Fisherman

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An Old Fisherman

An old fisherman spent the night here

under the western cliff

He dipped up water from the pure Hsiang

and made a bamboo fire

And then, at sunrise, he went his way

through the cloven mist

With only the creak of his paddle left,

in the greenness of mountain and river

... I turn and see the waves moving as from heaven,

And clouds above the cliff coming idly, one by one

An Old Fisherman

by Liu Zongyuan,

Poet of the Tang Dynasty

Top Painting by Wu Zhen
1280-1354
Painter of the Yuan Dynasty

Bottom Painting by Wang Su
1794-1877
Happy Fisherman

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Sydney for a Day

I went to Sydney today...

Got up at 3am

drove to Brisbane 1hr 45mins away

flew to Sydney

which took 1hr 20mins

Visited the US Consulate

for a multiple entry-long term visa

and had time to walk down Pitt Street

to the harbour

take a few pics on my iphone

before returning to the airport

delayed one hour because of high winds

flew to Brisbane

drove home to Noosa

~ What a long Day ~

But look at Circular Quay

the area of the Sydney Harbour

between the Sydney Harbour Bridge

and the Sydney Opera House

two stunning pieces 

of man made engineering

and architecture

we mingled with the tourists

walking the shoreline

near the very Bay

that Captain James Cook

stepped foot on 

way back in 1788

222 years ago

Cook sailed into Botany Bay

just south of Circular Quay

on the HMS Endeavour

The British planned 

a penal colony for Botany Bay

which in time became the first 

European habitation of Australia

 

 

 

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