“Everything is dangerous.
If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Poetry
LIVING WITH THE RISKS
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breasts, Bristle, Contagious, Contenders, Crown, Curtain, Delicate, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Feelings, Feet, Fingers, Fists, Heart, Life, Love, Memories, Outrageous, Pages, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pretenders, Risks, Salt, Sex, Sing, Slept, Splinters, Stage, Thistle, Threats, Throat, Throne, Ticket, Tongue, Whistle
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THE MOON HUNG FAT AND HIGH
“Au clair de la lune prête moi ta plume pour écrire un mot…”
“In the moonlight lend me your pen to write a word…”
~ French Folk Song “Au Clair de la Lune” ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.
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THE GRAMMAR OF HER TONGUE
“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.
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WITH DIVERSITY
“We trouble our life by thoughts about death,
and our death by thoughts about life.”
~ Michel de Montaigne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Darkness, Death, Degree, Digital Imagery, Diversity, dreams, Emotions, Heart, Hopeless, Liberal Arts, Life, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Schemes, Street Art, Time, Travesty, University
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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, Turn
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ELECTRICITY
“Mysterious affair, electricity.”
~ Samuel Beckett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Aldo Vitalen taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alluring, Beauty, Breadth, Breath, Compositions, Digital Imagery, Elaborate, Electricity, Emotions, Experiences, Faces, Felicity, Grace, Historical, Length, Life, Lines, Long-Winded, Love, Lyrical, Meaning, Memories, Music, Night, Oral, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Positions, Renditions, Rhymes, Sensuous, Song, Sprinkles, Traces, Traditions, Wisdom, Wit, Words, Wrinkles
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BEG FOR LIFE
“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take,
but it is finer to take than to beg.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Affection, Begging, Breath, Digital Imagery, Food, Life, Love, Money, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sit, Wait
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LONG SHADOWS
“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”
~ Terry Pratchett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2020.
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TRUTH
” ‘Tis strange – but true;
for truth is always strange;
stranger than fiction…”
~ Lord Byron ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of an etching made from a painting by G. Sanders, done in 1807, taken from the The Poetical Works Of Lord Byron published by J. & J. L. Gihon, Philadelphia 1852. From the author’s personal collection.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Fiction, Lord Byron, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prediction, Stranger, Truth
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EMPTY TRAINS
“It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.”
~ Cherie Priest ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anthracite, Daydream, Digital Imagery, Dripping, Drooling, Drops, Empty, Hours, Labyrinths, Lolling, Mazes, Myopic, People, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sky, Tongue, Tracks, Trains, Wet
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