“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean
by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
~ Voltaire ~
Photo taken in March 2024.
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Poetry
after the long sleep
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awaken, Backwards, Conspiracies, Everything, Eyes, Humanity, Hunger, Lies, Life, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Sleep, Stupidity, Violence, War
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proffer
“The tragedy of life is that it gives us wisdom
only when it has stolen youth.”
~ Will Durant ~
Photo taken in Nieuwpoort in the Netherlands in April 2007.
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changes
“Well, my mind is going through them changes…”
~ Buddy Miles ~
Photo taken in Paris in May 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Changes, Life, Nothing, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Upside Down, Was, Wasn't
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love your world
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War
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one word poem
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love…”
~ Hal David ~
Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Heart, Life, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
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woman
“You had the power all along my dear.”
~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~
Photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Acumen, Affection, Ardour, Beauty, Cold, Compassion, Creativity, Drab, Emotions, Empathetic, Equals, Fair, Future, Gray, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Intelligence, Intuition, Just, Life, Love, Men, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Sensitivity, Sex, Sexuality, Sin, Sincerity, Subjugation, Violence, Woman, Women
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les pieds du pèlerin
“You never conquer a mountain.
You just stand on the top a few moments.
Then the wind blows your footprints away.”
~ Arlene Blum ~
Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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twilight time
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose…”
~ Ecclesiastes 3 ~
Photo taken in March 2010.
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death is forever
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
~ Hector Berlioz ~
Photo taken in the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cimetière de Montparnasse, Dead Flowers, Death, Forever, Grave, Heaven, Hell, Life, Love, Nowhere, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time
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the road to hell
“What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone,
the other figures in it merely projections.”
~ T. S. Elliot ~
Photo taken of a street in Pompeii in 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Heaven, Hell, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pompeii, Road, Singing, Stones, Walrus
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no closure
“Sometimes the only way to get closure
is by accepting that you’ll never get it.”
~ John Mark Green ~
Photo of street art taken in December 2023.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Black Hole, Clock, Closure, Future, In Between, Life, Love, Night, Nothingness, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shadow, Stars, Time, Uninvited Guest
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the road
“The road never ends…only our vision does.”
~ Amit Reddy ~
Photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Cognizance, Comprehension, Dimensions, Dream, Experiences, Flagstones, Illusion, Life, Memories, Past, Perceptions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pompeii, Road, Slight Of Hand, Space, Time
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the sin of the calf
“When they asked me what my religion was
I said that I was Non-Delusional.”
~ Anonymous ~
Photo taken in March 2001.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Bible Babblers, Binge, Blasphemy, Confused, Darkness, Dazed, Desert, Dick, Face, Finger, Golden Calf, Ignorance, Moses, Mountain, Pants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Stick
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leaping into absurdity
“In a leap year, even the calendar takes a leap of faith!”
~ Anonymous ~
Photo taken in August 2009.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Day, Death, Leap Year, Life, Logic, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time
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the world we live in
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
~ Marcus Aurelius ~
Photo taken in December 2023.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blind Belief, Earned, Fact, Fantasy, Fiction, Future, Glasses, Half Full, Ignorance, Intelligence, Knowledge, Lies, Life, Miracles, Morality, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promised, Right, Sadness, Science, Sin, Stupidity, Truth, Wickedness, Wisdom, Wrong
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a place i called home
“There are places we fear, places we dream,
places whose exiles we became
and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”
~Thomas Pynchon ~
Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ambience, Atmosphere, Danced, Floor, Fluid, Ghosts, Home, Immersion, Life, Light, Lighting, Objects, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Place, Poetry, Pools, Secretions, Shadows, Silence, Sound, Street Art, Walls
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en vin est vérité
“There is no truth. There is only perception.”
~ Gustave Flaubert ~
Photo taken in April 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Change, Eyes, Fata Morgana, Glass, Heart, Illusion, Life, Mind, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Secrets, Shadows, Tongue, Truth, Universal Truth, Unreality, Wine
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the event horizon
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
~ Charles Bukowski ~
Photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Being, Breath, Canary Islands, Deleted, Event Horizon, Farewell, La Palma, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry, Portal
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bleach boned and hollow skulled
“Death is the greatest illusion of all.”
~ Osho Rajneesh ~
Photo taken at the Church of St. Katharin in the Ossuary of the Chapel of St Michael in Oppenheim, Germany in January 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belief, Blind Belief, Blind Faith, Bones, Death, Delusion, Fables, Fact, Faith, Fantasy, Heart, History, Imagination, Love, Mask, Ossuary, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Reward, Science, Skulls, Truth
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boutonnière
“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
~ William Wordsworth ~
Photo taken in May 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Blossom, Bouquet, Boutonnière, Buttonhole, Colour, Flowers, Persona, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Words
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