“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.
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CANDLE BURNING DOWN
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bright, Burn, Candle, Corner, Darkness, Flame, Flickering, Glisten, Glow, Hot, Illumination, Imagination, Life, Monstrosities, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Shadows, Silhouette, Slow Motion, Smoke, Sticky, Wall, Wax
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THERE WAS ALWAYS THE LEARNING
“Man…is above all the plaything of his memory.”
~ Andre Breton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken by an unknown photographer in early 1972.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bitterness, Chance Encounter, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Energy, Experience, Flings, Flirts, Heart, Hurt, Imagination, Infatuations, Intimacy, Joy, Learning, Life, Love, Lovers, Memories, Pain, Passion, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Relationships, Sex, Shadows, Time
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ROSES FOR MILADY
“One rose is enough for the dawn.”
~ Edmond Jabes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.
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NORMALCY
“I felt very still and empty,
the way the eye of a tornado must feel,
moving dully along in the middle
of the surrounding hullabaloo.”
~ Sylvia Plath ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of G. Klaut Images.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Conformity, Different, Digital Imagery, Free Spirit, Judge, Life, Memories, Nonconformist, Normal, Normalcy, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Question, Rebellion, Same, Story, Two Sides
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THE BARD’S MISTRESS
“This momentary joy breeds months of pain;
this hot desire converts to cold disdain.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created in February 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bard, Bitch, Canker, Carcass, Civility, Compassion, Considerate, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dignity, Emotions, Fetid, Heart, Kind Hearted, Life, Love, Mistress, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Putrid, Rancor, Second Best Bed, Sex, Shadows, Shakespeare, Soul, Stairs, Stratford, Street, Warts, Witch
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VALLEY OF SHADOWS
“Love is, after all, a selfish thing;
and it throws a black shadow on anything
between which and the light it stands.”
~ Bram Stoker ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture (detail) by Antoine Bourdelle taken in Paris in June 2019.
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MEDUSA
“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”
~ Mason Cooley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Hate, Head, Hiss, Lips, Medusa, Memories, Minacious, Mirror, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Satyr, Sensuality, Serpents, Sex, Shadows, Slobber, Smile, Snakes, Stone, Thigh, Vitriol
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THE BEAST WITH TWO HEADS
“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
~ Charles Baudelaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of Ficks & Fertig Enterprises.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beast, Beast With Two Backs, Beast With Two Heads, Beauty, Belly, Creature, Darkness, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Energy, Erotica, Language, Life, Love, Lust, Mouth, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Second Best Bed, Sex, Shadows, Shakespeare, Tongue
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MOON OVER ME
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beds, Betrays, Darkness, Digital Imagery, dreams, Emotions, Emptiness, Face, Fat, Friend, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Mistake, Moon, Night, Nothing, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Punctual, Room, Shadows, Sheets, Sincerity, Streets, Time, True, Window
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PURE, SIMPLE NOTHING
“I love to talk about nothing.
It’s the only thing I know anything about.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beliefs, Clueless, Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Egos, Future, Hopes, Imagination, Knowledge, Nothing, Nothingness, Past, Photography, Poetry, Something, Time, Unknown
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