“We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust…”
~ Rumi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 2004.
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Poetry
lessons in the half light
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blazing, Choreography, Complexity, Dances, Dervish, Desire, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Half Light, In Between, Interweaving, Intricacy, Lessons, Life, Loom, Passion, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Waiting
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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 ambience that was she
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
~ Vladimir Nabokov ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ambience, Digital Imagery, Energy, Eyes, Fireflies, Fires, Heart, Life, Love, Mischievous, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pixie, Poetry, Sparkle, Twinkling, Words
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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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the reluctant prince
“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,
are you sure all we did was kiss?”
~ Red Buttons ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awaken, Beauty, Bite, Corpse, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Evil, Heart, Inanimate, Kiss, Life, Lips, Love, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prince, Sex, Sleep, Sleeping Beauty, Spell, Suspended Animation, Time, Vampire, Witch
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halcyon
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth
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and yet
“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”
~ Paulo Coelho ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Future, Hands, Horizon, Landscape, Life, Love, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soft, Spirit, Touch, Treasure Chest, Vista, Warm, Willing
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the story of our lives
“You see things and you say, ‘Why?’
But I dream things and I say, ‘Why not?’ ”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2001.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Life, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Story, Unfulfilled Dreams
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like making love
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
~ Charles Bukowski ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Arousal, Blush, Caress, Climax, Colour, Digital Imagery, Ecstasy, Emotions, Erotica, Fondle, Foreplay, Heart, Ideas, Life, Lines, Love, Nuzzle, Orgasm, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rebirth, Resurrection, Sensuality, Sensuous, Sex, Stroke, Thoughts, Titillation, Touch, Words
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butterfly days
“To everything there is a season…”
~ Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Butterfly, Come Hither, Dancing, Digital Imagery, Faeries, Harlot, Lace Winged, Nectar, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smile, Thistledown
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pépier
“God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.”
~ Jacques Deval ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Birds, Birdsong, Branches, Cacophony, Chirp, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Hibernation, Life, Light, Morning, Music, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purple, Seasons, Shadows, Song, Spring, Street Art, Symphony, Throats, Time, Trees, Trill, Twitter, Warble, Warmth
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awakening
“Without change, something sleeps inside us,
and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
~ Frank Herbert ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Dancing, Desire, Digital Imagery, Distance, Echo, Found, Hope, Horizon, Life, Lost, Luminosity, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resurrection, Shadow, Silence, Sleep, Time, Want, Willingness, Words
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the celestial laundry line
“That which can be asserted without evidence,
can be dismissed without evidence.”
~ Christopher Hitchens ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a flexed burial dated to ca. 3000 BCE taken in January 1988.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Buddha, Death, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Flexed Burial, Heaven, Hell, History, Jesus, Life, Limbo, Muhammad, Neolithic Era, Organized Religion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Superstition
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never enough time
“There is not enough time for anything, ever.”
~ Hilton Als ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Confidant, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fear, Feel, Heart, Life, Love, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Song, Soul, Time, Touch
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primordial vagabond notes
“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.”
~ Miles Davis ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Airs, Consciousness, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Empty, Feelings, Full, History, Life, Music, Notes, Nothing, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhythms, Scene, Soundtrack, Spirit, Stage, Substance, Thoughts, Time, Tragicomedy, Vibrations, Vision
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a gravity of language
“Words, too, have genuine substance –
mass and weight and specific gravity.”
~ Tim O’Brien ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Attraction, Centuries, Communication, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dust, Galaxies, Gravity, History, Imagination, Life, Literature, Magic, Memories, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Stars, Time, Time Machine, Words
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yawns back at me in yellow
“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”
~ Bob Dylan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bawl, Bellow, Bleat, Digital Imagery, Dream, Drink, Drown, Gutters, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Perspiration, Photography, Poetry, Precipitation, Rain, Roof, Salamander, Scream, Slime, Sweat, Water, Yellow
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words like clay
“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.”
~ Wisława Szymborska ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a newly excavated 1800 year old Roman burial urn taken in July 1987.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Beauty, Clay, Colour, Criticism, Digital Imagery, Emotion, Enthusiasm, Experience, Fervour, Gault, Language, Life, Literature, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potter, Pottery, Praise, Prose, Shelves, Sound, Splendour, Urn, Vessels, Wheel, Writing
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gribbles
“Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
Dulce est desipere in loco.”
“Mingle a little folly with your wisdom;
a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.”
~ Horace ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Eyes, Gribbles, Grins, Mushrooms, Nonsense, Oysters, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sheep Shit, Smiles, Street Art, Teeth, Thick Lipped, Tongues, Triangles
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the cosmic lie of reason
“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”
~ Mark Nepo ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chaos, Complexity, Constant, Digital Imagery, Disguise, Energy, Experiences, Fate, Happens, Happenstance, Illogical, Labyrinth, Levels, Life, Order, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Planning, Poetry, Purpose, Randomness, Reason, Relationships, Threads, Void
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