“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
~ Anne Sexton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.
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Posts Tagged With: Darkness
golden fleece
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alleys, Blood, Creature, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Golden Fleece, Hours, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, No Quarter, Paralyzed, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, Rain, Search, Shadows, Streets, Vomit
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overkill
“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”
~ Albert Collins ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blues, Bombs, Breasts, Breath, Chaos, Circles, Corner, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Distress, Extreme Unction, Finger, Glasses, Life, Madness, Mess, Milk, Neck, Neglect, Overkill, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purple, Scene, Shadows, Spirals, Virgin Birth
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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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dreambo
“A memory is what is left when something happens
and does not completely unhappen.”
~ Edward de Bono ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.
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darkness
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
~ Helen Keller ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2001.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Contemplation, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Friendship, Lamp, Life, Light, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Shadows, Wait
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rainbows
“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.
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candle burning down
“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bright, Burn, Candle, Corner, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Flame, Flickering, Glisten, Glow, Hot, Illumination, Imagination, Life, Monstrosities, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Shadows, Silhouette, Slow Motion, Smoke, Sticky, Wall, Wax
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ladder to the moon
“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.
And draw the ladder after me.”
~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ancient God, Beauty, Bucket, Colour, Craters, Creativity, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Imagination, Ladder, Landscape, Moon, Mountains, Music, Night, Painting, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Prisms, Rainbows, Shadows, Sound, World
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la mort est pour toujours
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.
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same ol’ moon
“Lend me thy pen to write a word in the moonlight…”
~ from a French folk song ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Branches, Clouds, Curtains, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Face, Imagination, Life, Light, Moon, Old Paint, Perspective, Photography, Pieces, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Smile, Spell, Time, Windows, Words
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a long uncertain ride
“A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke,
only man can prevent.”
~ Elie Wiesel ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ancestors, Blessed, Children, Curse, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Destiny, Digital Imagery, Evil, Fate, Future, Genocide, Greed, Legacy, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Selfishness, Solutions, Street Art, Suicide, Survival
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only ever now
“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”
~ James Clavell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Consequences, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dream, Existence, Fate, Future, Generations, History, Imagination, Life, Light, Memories, Night, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Stars, Time, Truth, Universe
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light shines down
“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”
~ Anaïs Nin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Horrors, Light, Lips, Lovers, Passions, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Screams, Shine
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the nature of the beast within
“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 June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beast, Chunder, Darkness, Demons, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Fabrications, Fate, Fumes, Imagination, Life, Lines, Memories, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puzzle, Wasteland, Whirlpools, Words
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the demons are delighted
“He who is neither human nor demon
is not the dawn nor the dusk.”
~ Kohta Hirano ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Appetite, Clouds, Dance, Darkness, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Epithets, Imagination, Life, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sky, Snakes, Sour, Sun, 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 a photo taken in Winter 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, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purgatory, Seasons, Shadows, Silence, Snow, Struggle, Summer, Survive, Time, Trust
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grow wings
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
~ Frida Kahlo ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Conviction, Darkness, Difficult, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hatred, Imagination, Life, Light, Long, Love, Mistrust, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Treacherous, Truth, Wings
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long shadows
“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”
~ Terry Pratchett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2020.
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never looked back
“I never waste time looking back.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.
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the moon hung fat and high
“Au clair de la lune prête moi ta plume pour écrire un mot…”
“In the moonlight lend me your pen to write a word…”
~ French Folk Song “Au Clair de la Lune” ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.
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