“Everything has a secret soul,
which is silent more often than it speaks.”
~ Wassily Kandinsky ~
Photo taken in March 1982.
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the silence descends
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Abyss, Blackness, Distance, Howl, Moon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Silence, Wolves
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isolation
“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other
across seas of misunderstanding.”
~ Rudyard Kipling ~
Photo taken in Paris in May 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Poetry, Paris, Photography, Perspective, Isolation, Darkness, Shadow, Depression, Desperation, Shade, Banshee
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shadow and light
“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.
The shadow is me.”
~ Anaïs Nin ~
Photo taken in May 1994.
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lucky stars
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
~ Lord Byron ~
Photo taken in May 2024.
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flow
“Solitude is the place of purification.”
~ Martin Buber ~
Photo taken in May 2021.
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no fishes, no loaves
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
~ Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr ~
Photo taken in August 1979.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Conditioning, Cures, Death, Division, Fishes, Fools, Loaves, Miracles, Misery, Multiplication, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Regulations, Resurrection, Rules, Solutions
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insignificant
“Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an
insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Photo taken in November 2004.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beach, Death, Footprints, Insignificant, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Shore, Stars, Universe, Waves, Wind
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in my time of dying
“For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Photo taken in December 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Actors, Beauty, Death, Demise, Eyes, Friends, Happy Ending, Icons, Life, Musicians, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poets, Writers
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poppies
“Through the dancing poppies stole
a breeze most softly lulling to my soul…”
~ John Keats ~
Photo taken in July 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bees, Butterflies, Fertility Dance, Lips, Nectar, Perspective, Petals, Photography, Poetry, Pollen, Poppies, Vaginas, Wind
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sweet nothings
“Skepticism is forever whispering in your ears.”
~ D. J. Grothe ~
Photo taken in May 2024.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ears, Forever, Life, Love, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sweet Nothings, Vanish, Whispered, Word
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the fabric of our dreams
“We are woven from the fabric of which our dreams are made.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Photo taken in Paris in May 2011.
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jazz
“You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.”
~ John Coltrane ~
Photo taken in 1986.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Face, High Heels, Jazz, Music, Night, Notes, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Saxophones, Sheets, Sidewalk, Spine, Stages, Sweat, Town, Virgin
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the wall i built
“Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it,
old age is still old age.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Photo taken in December 2017.
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why?
“Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman,
war remains with us and within us,
impossible to forget but difficult to remember.”
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen ~
Photo taken in 1994.
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universe
“It has been said repeatedly that one can never,
try as he will, get around to the front of the universe.
Man is destined to see only its far side,
to realize nature only in retreat.”
~ Loren Eiseley ~
Photo taken in Paris in July 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Astronomy, Awareness, Consciousness, Future, Infinitesimal, Logic, Nano Bytes, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Science, Space, Stars, Universal Consciousness, Universe
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fat hens
“the world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”
~ e. e. cummings ~
Photo taken in April 2018.
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cannabic ode
“What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Photo taken in August 2004.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cannabis, Gods, Grow, Life, Mother Earth, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Seeds, Soil, Sun, Tomb, Trees, Weed, Womb
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tomorrow never comes
“Learn from yesterday, live for today.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Photo taken in Paris in May 2018.
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le séductrice
“It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”
~ Voltaire ~
Photo taken in August 2018.
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baubles and bangles
“The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink.”
~ Claudia Rankine ~
Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Autumn, Bangles, Baubles, Experiences, Life, Memories, Nuts, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Posterity, Shadows, Squirrels, Time, Treasure, Treasure Chest, Worth
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