“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”
~ Anne Carson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in June 2006.
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Poetry
HOT SCALES SLITHER
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Acrid, Capitulation, Death, Digital Imagery, Effluvium, Life, Lips, Love, Malefic, Obscene, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Redemption, Reptilian, Salvation, Scales, Seduction, Senses, Sex, Skin, Slither, Sour, Taste, Tongue, Venomous
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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BETWEEN
“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”
~ Peter Sinfield ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cesspool, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Fairness, Greed, Justice, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Safety, Scales, Shadow, Slaughter, Whisper, Wind
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PETALS PLUCKED
“I can’t feel a thing;
All mournful petal storms are dancing
inside the very private spring of my head.”
~ Franz Kafka ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Certainty, Chance, Death, Digital Imagery, Exist, Fate, Future, Gods, Insect, Life, Love, Pages, Perspective, Petals, Photography, Poetry, Prayer, Prophesize, Winds
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INTO THE SILENCE
“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”
~ Mary Oliver ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Destination, Digital Imagery, Imagination, Life, Linger, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quietly, River, Silence, Source
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WALLS
“Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”
~ Eugene O’Neill ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2000.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blindness, Digital Imagery, Intent, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisons, Purpose, Walls
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GRACE MY TABLE
“Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story
of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.”
~ Carl Sandburg ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bugs, Death, Digital Imagery, Dinner, Fisherman, Grace, Hunger, Luck, Net, Patience, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Spider, Spider Web, Trap
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POÈTE MAUDIT
“What can an eternity of damnation matter
to someone who has felt, if only for a second,
the infinity of delight?”
~ Charles Baudelaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in February 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Accursed, Convention, Death, Debauchery, Decadence, Digital Imagery, Disdain, Excess, Indulgence, Life, Love, Mean-Spirited, Norm, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poète Maudit, Poet, Poetry, Shadow, Straight And Narrow
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MAYFLIES
“Time is a river sweeping away
all that is born towards the darkest shore.”
~ Félix J. Palma ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken by M. Weller in June 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Backstage, Curtain, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Encore, Life, Mayfly, Oblivion, One Act Show, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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SCHADENFREUDE
“Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.”
~ George Orwell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Benightedness, Blindness, Denial, Digital Imagery, Egotistical, Embellishment, Fact, Fiction, Forgotten, History, Ignored, Insensitivity, Lessons, Opportunities, Pain, Pathological, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Schadenfreude, Shards, Suffering
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A STICK FIGURE SCRAWL
“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”
~ Paul Cezanne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Canvas, Colours, Desires, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Kindergarten, Life, Moods, Perspective, Photography, Picasso, Pigments, Poetry, Rembrandt, Scrawl, Stick Figure, Unawareness, Van Gogh, Wall
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AN APRIL NIGHT
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
~ Anais Nin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Antics, Babies, Beer, Bordello, Bright, Coma, Counterfeiting, Cravings, Digital Imagery, Free Love, Love, Night, Photography, Poetry, Ravings, Romantics, Semantics, Soul, Star, Weather
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DÉSHABILLÉ
“The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Déshabillé, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Heartbeat, Innocence, Listen, Love, Photography, Poetry, Silence
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DRANK
“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alcohol, Digital Imagery, Drinking, Floor, More, Photography, Poetry
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TWILIGHT TIME
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose…”
~ Ecclesiastes 3 ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cold, Dance, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Illuminated, Jungle, Learned, Life, Night, Path, Photography, Poetry, Rebel, Shout, Silence, Sing, Solitude, Time, Torch, Twilight, Voice
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ALWAYS EVENING
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1982.
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THIS TIME
“Life seems to always be in flux.
But when it comes to enacting change within ourselves
it is often only an exercise in self-deception…”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the sculpture L’Adieu (1941) by Henri Laurens taken in Vienna, Austria in November 1993.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Change, Different, Digital Imagery, Nothing, Photography, Poetry, Same, Time
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BOUILLON
“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”
~ Moliere ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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FOREVER CHAINED
“We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.”
~ Marcel Proust ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Angel, Beast, Beauty, Belly, Breast, Chained, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Photography, Poetry, Tied, Tongue
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THE CONCEPT OF GLASS
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
~ Robertson Davies ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aperture, Comprehension, Concept, Digital Imagery, Evolving, Fly, Freedom, Glass, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learning, Mysteries, Photography, Poetry, Room, Universe, Window
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THE DISTANCE OF MYTH
“For time is the longest distance between two places.”
~ Tennessee Williams ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken from the summit of one of the Peaks Of Otter in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the summer of 1977.
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