“One man gathers what another man spills…”
~ Robert Hunter ~
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Poetry
DEAD ROSES
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blind, Dead Roses, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Feelings, Life, Liturgy, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrances, Roses, Time
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TICKETS TO THE TRAUMA
“People know two languages:
their native language and gibberish.”
~ Maribel C. Pagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cane, Clamour, Digital Imagery, Drama, Gibberish, Lasagna, Pajamas, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sauce, Tickets, Top Hat, Trauma
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COVIDIOTS
“Apathy is as dangerous, invisible, and contagious
as an asymptomatic virus carrier.”
~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alone, Blind, Choking, Death, Digital Imagery, Heads, Heart, Ignorance, Life, Love, Mindlessness, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stomachs, Stone, Straw, Uncaring, Unkind
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THE IMAGE
“To carry language from two dimensions
into three is the task of the poets.”
~ Terence McKenna ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Assistance, Comprehension, Death, Depth, Digital Imagery, Documentation, Future, Image, Imagination, Non-Existence, Oblivion, Observation, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plight, Poetry, Prisoner, Solace, Street Art, Struggle, Substance, Time, Two-Dimensionality, World
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HAMSTER WHEEL
“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.
They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”
~ Bob Dylan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Kai taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Circles, Compassion, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Gears, Hamster Wheel, Human, Life, Money, Morality, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Profit, Prosperity, Rat Race, Street Art, The Running Man, Time, Wheels
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LUNACY
“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!
The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”
~ Adelaide Crapsey ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cadence, Counterpoint, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dissonance, Emotions, Howl, Leash, Life, Love, Lunacy, Memories, Moon, Music, Notes, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polyphony, Pother, Shadows, Songs, Wilderness
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HALCYON
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
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CAMOUFLAGED
“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”
~ Margaret Atwood ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Autumn, Boulevards, Camouflage, Chill, Dampen, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dungeon, Fog, Future, Labyrinths, Landscape, Leaves, Life, Memories, Mystery, Old, Old Age, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rues, Shadows
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MOONCHILD
“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”
~ A.J. Lawless ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Coyotes, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fingers, Imagination, Interstellar, Life, Light Years, Moon, Moonchild, Moonlight, Music, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Secrets, Smile, Soliloquy, Sonatas, Stars, Time, Trouble, Wolves
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THE TENEBROSITY OF DREAM
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
~ Edgar Allen Poe ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Body, Charlatans, Danger, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eyes, Gloom, Hours, Life, Light, Minutes, Morning, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychoanalysts, Shadows, Sleep, Soul, Surprise, Tenebrosity, Unconsciousness
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FOUR BEFORE TWELVE
“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie
every environmental problem we face today.”
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathy, Ashes, Blind, Burning, Carcass, Darkness, Deaf, Death, Digital Imagery, Dumb, Elephant, Embers, History, House, Humanity, Ignorance, Indifference, Legacy, Life, Overpopulation, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Time, Twelve O'Clock, Wind
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PERHAPS
“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”
~ Victor Hugo ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Coming, Confusion, Digital Imagery, Existence, Life, Nothing, Paris, Perhaps, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Waiting
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À TRAVERS LE MIROIR
“I can explain all the poems that were ever invented –
and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet.”
~ Lewis Carroll ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alice In Wonderland, Cards, Carpenter, Cheshire Cat, Death, Digital Imagery, Dormouse, Inside Out, Life, Mad Hatter, Oysters, Paris, Past, Paul McCartney, Pearls, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rabbits, Red Queen, Shoelaces, Smiles, Tongues, Walrus
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THE ANGEL OF DEATH
“Is it possible that existence is our exile
and nothingness our home?”
~ Emile M. Cioran ~
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EN VIN EST VÉRITÉ
“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
~Gustave Flaubert ~
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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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LARMES DE BLEU
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
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LA FEMME QUI LIT
“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
~ Lisa Kleypas ~
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alluring, Beauty, Books, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Heart, Intelligence, Learning, Life, Literature, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Read, Seductive, Wisdom, Woman
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PRIVATE HELL
“Aequat omnes cinis.”
~ Seneca ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Ashes, Burning, Cards, Chance, Coal, Darkness, Dealer, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Hell, Ignorance, Intensity, Lies, Life, Looking Glass, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Piper, Poetry, Reflections, Shadows, Truth
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THE SAME
“Don’t we all look up at the same stars?”
~ A.D. Posey ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.
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STEP INTO THE DARKNESS
“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”
~ Meister Eckhart ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Black, Cave, Creativity, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Emotions, Imagination, Life, Light, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purity, Rituals, Shadows, Unknown, Verses
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