“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane
by those who could not hear the music.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Berlin January 2018.
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musique et danse
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Celestial Harmony, Dance, Digital Imagery, Flowing, Heart, Life, Music, Passions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pulsating, Space, Street Art, Time, Universe, Vibrations
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lemniscate
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
~ Neale Donald Walsch ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2023.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Birth, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hunger, Janus, Lemniscate, Life, Love, Ouroboros, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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coda
“He was inside the nightmare.”
~ Patrick Ness ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2022.
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Categories: Poetry, Photography
Tags: Poetry, Photography, Perspective, Digital Imagery, Light, Nightmare, Note, Coda, Maelstrom
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in her i had everything
“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:
Am I – or are the others crazy?”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the mineral Sepiolite taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Attempts, Backs, Balling, Bed, Blue, Brambles, Bread, Breasts, Butter, Clocks, Clutter, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Grumbles, Guests, Imagination, Lies, Life, Lifetimes, Lips, Love, Morning, Pandora's Box, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preambles, Science, Semblance, Socks, Spikes, Tacks, Tests, Truth, Trysts, Tumbles
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crimson thorned
“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”
~ Leigh Bardugo ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2023.
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the doubt remains
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Certainty, Digital Imagery, Doubt, Dream, Future, Imagined, Lies, Memory, Muddle, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Real, Truth, Uncertainty
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wormholes
“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience
that primordial shamanism is based on
is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”
~ Terence McKenna ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Demons, Digital Imagery, Fibers, Flux, Hallucinations, Here And Now, Illusions, Imagination, Life, LSD, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, Magma, Memories, Pandora, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychedelic, Pythons, Technicolour, Then And There, Wonder, Wormholes
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slow burning ember
“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
~ Robert Frost ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Desire, Digital Imagery, Dogs, Dreaming, Ecstasy, Ember, Energy, Fingers, Fire, Life, Love, Moon, Night, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Sky, Time, Tongues, Window
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too far
“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
~ Dylan Thomas ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Back, Bridges, Burning, Digital Imagery, Far, Future, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Traveler
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hoops
“There is a hidden power in details.”
~ Sabeesh Yemmay ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alternative Facts, Cachets, Dactylic Hexameters, Dalliances, Datura, Digital Imagery, Dream, Fables, Fantasies, Farces, Hagglers, Halfpennyworth, Hoops, Idioms, Imbongi, Perspective, Photography, Pirouettes, Poetry
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sparkle
“For small creatures such as we,
the vastness is bearable only through love.”
~ Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Atoms, Digital Imagery, Electrons, Energy, Heart, Higgs Boson, Life, Love, Matter, Neutrons, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protons, Quarks, Stardust, Universe, Walls
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like mushrooms
“There are poisons that blind you,
and poisons that open your eyes.”
~ August Strindberg ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Experience, Mushrooms, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poisons, Shadows, Truth
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wee
“It takes a long time to become young.”
~ Pablo Picasso ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma in November 1994.
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siren
“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”
~ Gertrude Stein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Balls, Beauty, Breasts, Capitulation, Carnal, Death, Depth, Digital Imagery, Dung, Emotions, Erotica, Finality, Finger, Flies, Flotsam, Folly, Heart, Licentious, Life, Love, Music, Nipples, Orgasmic, Oscillations, Passion, Perspective, Phallus, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Seduction, Sex, Siren, Slaughter, Suckled
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la vie
“We all have two lives. The second one starts
when we realize we only have one.”
~ Tom Hiddleston ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Creativity, Dead, Digital Imagery, Eat, Emotions, Feelings, La Vie, Life, Nonexistence, Nothing, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Shit, Sleep, Space, Street Art, Time
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touch
“Find someone who will tremble for your touch,
someone whose fingers are a poem.”
~ Janet Fitch ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Affection, Digital Imagery, Feeling, Heart, Intimacy, Language, Life, Love, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Tactility, Touch, Warmth, Wasteland
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a colour of dust
“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,
sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”
~ Omar Khayyam ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.
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thistles and thorns
“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;
and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”
~ Rumi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Song, Sublime, Thistles, Thorns
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i’ll wait
“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”
~ Victor Hugo ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in England in June 1979.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Down, Face, Fate, Late, Life, Parties, Perspective, Photography, Pilgrim, Poetry, Sleep, Space, Time, Topsy-Turvy, Up, Wait
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immediate curtain
“Life is a cosmic joke.”
~ Robert Wyatt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Brushes, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Immediate, Life, Love, Memories, Music, Needles, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Thimbles, Thistles
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