“I should have no use for a paradise in which
I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.”
~ Jean Rostand ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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apples and snakes
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adam and Eve, Apples, Beauty, Digital Imagery, Garden, Harvest, Humanity, Life, Paradise, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reaping, Snake
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bête noire
“For now they kill me with a living death.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Age, Bane, Black Beast, Comfort, Death, Digital Imagery, Habit, Life, Nightmare, Obtusity, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Routine, Slaughter, Torment, Torpidity
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the river flows
“Free fall flow, river flow, on and on it goes,
breathe under water till the end,
yes, the river knows…”
~ Robbie Krieger ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Deep, Depths, Digital Imagery, Flow, Life, Memory, Nothingness, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, River, Sea, Shallow, Slow, Source, Swift
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stop to smell the roses
“And in the end, the love you take,
is equal to the love you make…”
~ Paul McCartney ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Clay, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, End, Fata Morgana, Form, Heart, Hours, Life, Love, Materialistic, Memories, Minutes, Mold, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pilfering, Poetry, Rapacious, Relax, Roses, Smell, Thief, Touch
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the load
“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.”
~ Phillips Brooks ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beginning, Breathe, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Flavour, Horizon, Life, Load, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Second Chance, Struggle
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a personal observation
“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
~ Khalil Gibran ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chord Changes, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eye, Feet, Fingers, Hermes, History, Laughter, Life, Love, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soundtrack, Tapestry, Tears, Time, Years
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en vin est vérité
“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
~ Gustave Flaubert ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Change, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fata Morgana, Glass, Heart, Illusion, Life, Mind, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Secrets, Shadows, Tongue, Truth, Universal Truth, Unreality, Wine
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at last i am free
“There is a time for departure
even when there’s no certain place to go.”
~ Tennessee Williams ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Death, Digital Imagery, Dues, Emotions, Food, Free, Friendship, Give And Take, Happy, Heart, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Sing, Stages, Tarts, Wine, Women
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ces vieilles mains
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.
It was my other hand.”
~ William S. Burroughs ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Goodbyes, Grasp, Hands, Jungles, Kindness, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Palms, Passion, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Promise, Scarred, Thorns, Time, Worn, Wrinkles
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rainbows raining down
“Poetry is a phantom script telling how
rainbows are made and why they go away.”
~ Carl Sandburg ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Dust, Ears, Eyes, Fingers, Flowers, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Light, Memories, Music, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisons, Rainbows, Ribbons, Song, Sound, Spring, Time, Window
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what tantalizing tapestry
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
~ Henry Miller ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Canvas, Circumstance, Dance, Death, Destiny, Dice, Digital Imagery, Dreamers, Energy, Existence, Eyes, Lethe, Life, Obscurity, Palettes, Parade, Perspective, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Procession, Song, Tapestry, The Fates, Time, Treasures, Wine, Women
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as civilization begins to crumble
“We can endure neither our vices
nor the remedies needed to cure them.”
~ Livy ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Annihilation, Change, Civilization, Crumble, Darkness, Death, Decay, Digital Imagery, Dust, Future, History, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Self-Aggrandizement, Shadows, Time, Weeds
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jesse / plain jane
“Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.”
~ Robert Fripp ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019.
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intricacy
“Every day has a little bit of beauty and a little bit of chaos.”
~ Tanisha ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of one of the doors at the entrance to Notre Dame taken in Paris in July 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anarchy, Challenge, Change, Detail, Devil, Digital Imagery, Door, Existence, Future, Intricacy, Labyrinthine, Lackadaisical, Life, Mundane, Mutation, Paris, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Routine, Shadows, Wheel Of Fortune
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lullaby for losers
“Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in October 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Canker, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Earth, Fools, Future, History, Life, Losers, Lullaby, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pig-Ignorant, Planet, Poetry, Species, Street Art, Value
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two candles burning
“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Notre Dame in Paris in July 2014.
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the long nightmare
“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
~ Francisco de Goya ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Poetry, Photography, Perspective, Digital Imagery, Life, Ashes, Phoenix, Dream, Nightmare, Storm, Nights, Sleepless
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terpsichore
“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”
~ Corinna ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Crete in October 1992.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Dance, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eyes, Goat-Footed, Kisses, Life, Long, Moon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sappho, Sleep, Star, Terpsichore, Water
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a simple truth
“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.
What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration
has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.
There is no matter.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a recycled flower bed taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Canary Islands, Change, Digital Imagery, Energy, Immortality, La Palma, Light, Matter, Perspective, Photography, Physics, Poetry, Science, Stardust, Truth
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moirai
“O! I am fortune’s fool.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1989.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Laugh, Life, Moirai, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, The Fates, Thread, Weave, Worms
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