“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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Posts Tagged With: Cold
SCRIPTURE
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Avenues, Blood, Breezes, Cement, Cobbles, Cold, Corners, Cracks, Dancing, Darkness, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Document, Ice, Leaves, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preserve, Resurrection, Rooftop, Rumours, Scripture, Season, Semen, Shadows, Sisters, Slime, Snow, Spice, Stars, Streets, Tea, Towels, Trowels, Vowels, Wine
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A NUMBNESS
“Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.”
~ David Whyte ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cold, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Fabric, Heart, Killers, Leaves, Life, Night, Numbness, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soul, Streets, Time, Wind
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THE DAY AFTER
“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”
~ Dejan Stojanovic ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of mold on a wall taken in Paris in May 2018.
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RUTHSONG
“i wrote this when i was twenty-one for a very talented
lovely lady cellist who graced my life briefly…”
~ erik geoffrey barth a.k.a. nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a July 2020 scan of a card made 48 years ago by Ruth.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Blue, Carrion, Cold, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dusk, Ears, Forest, Glacier, Green, Grins, Heart, Labyrinth, Love, Memories, Moon, Mountains, Music, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, River, Ruth, Stars, Strings, Time, Trees, Valleys, Visions, Yellow
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WOMAN
“You had the power all along my dear.”
~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Acumen, Affection, Ardour, Beauty, Cold, Compassion, Creativity, Digital Imagery, 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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PERCEPTION
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Clarity, Clouds, Cold, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Drop, Emotions, Fingers, Future, Icicle, Life, Lips, Love, Memory, Mist, Passion, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spine, Suction, Time, Uncertainty
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MOON OMENS
“The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads
like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.”
~ Garth Nix ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adjectives, Branches, Clouds, Cold, Darkness, Digest, Digital Imagery, dreams, Emotions, Future, Life, Lips, Marrow, Memories, Moon, Nightmares, Nipple, Omens, Orgasmic, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Rapid Eye Movement, Sex, Tallow, Tongue
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SEASON OF SILENCE
“I said nothing for a time,
just ran my fingertips along the edge
of the human-shaped emptiness
that had been left inside me.”
~ Haruki Murakami ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in 2002.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animosity, Carrion Crow, Cold, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Forgetfulness, Hapless, Helpless, Hopeless, Labyrinth, Laughter, Life, Loathing, Memories, Past, Photography, Poetry, Purgatory, Seasons, Shadows, Silence, Snow, Struggle, Summer, Survive, Time, Trust
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SEASON OF FRIENDSHIP
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”
~ Josh Billings ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Camille Claudel’s sculpture (detail) L’Âge mur taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cold, Darkness, Dialog, Diatribe, Digital Imagery, Embers, Emotions, Expectations, Flame, Friendship, Harassment, Hatred, Heart, Hope, Intimidation, Life, Love, Memories, Paris, Passion, Past, Path, Photography, Poetry, Reconciliation, Revenge, Seasons, Time, Winter
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SWARMING
“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”
~ Kellie Elmore ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.
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