Posts Tagged With: Blood

crimson thorned

 

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”

 

~ Leigh Bardugo ~

 

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an absence of luminosity

 

“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”

 

~ Louis Daguerre ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2018.


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red

 

“Yet would we die as some have done,
beating a way for the rising sun.”

 

~ Arna Bontemps ~

 

000 red

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2003.


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scripture

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.
    Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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new skin for old

 

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

 

~ William Butler Yeats ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1996.


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the count considers retirement

 

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me,
with a red light of triumph in his eyes,
and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”

 

~ Bram Stoker ~

 

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golden fleece

 

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

 

~ Anne Sexton ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.


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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint
of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

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i sang into the silence

 

“It is not now as it has been before.”

 

~ William Wordsworth ~

 

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THE PIERCED HEART

 

“Stab the body and it heals,
but injure the heart
and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

 

~ Mineko Iwasaki ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.


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OUR POISON SWEET

 

“…drink my lovely, drink it down…”

 

~nightpoet ~

 

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INSECTIVOROUS SUICIDE

 

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

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ROSY CRUCIFIXIONS

 

“My life was one long rosy crucifixion.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2002.


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BY NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GRAY

“Women and cats will do as they please,
and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.


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GOLDEN FLEECE

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

~ Anne Sexton ~

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SCRIPTURE

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.
Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.


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SPANISH JUNE

 

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,
they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,
cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

 

~ Traditional ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.


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MEDARD AT MIDNIGHT

 

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –
but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.


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RED NIGHTMARE

 

“Into what nightmare thingness am I fallen?”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2018.


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POPPY CROTCH

 

“How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.


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