“One rose is enough for the dawn.”
~ Edmond Jabes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.
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Posts Tagged With: Dawn
dreams fading
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who
can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees
the dawn before the rest of the world.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Butterflies, Candle, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Leaves, Memory, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleep, Wind, Wings
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DARK COME THE DAYS
“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”
~ Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019. Photo courtesy of W. Feger, used with permission.
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WEE
“It takes a long time to become young.”
~ Pablo Picasso ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in La Palma, the Canary Islands in November 1994.
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DAWN MADNESS
“The road is life.”
~ Jack Kerouac ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 1977.
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AS ANOTHER DAY DAWNS
“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”
~ Alice Liddell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2004.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Balcony, Bees, Breeze, Chaos, Coda, Dawn, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyelids, Flowers, Insects, Jungle, Life, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Routine, Skin, Song, Storm Clouds, Symphony, Uncertainty
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TAPIS
“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”
~ Theodore Roethke ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Blossoms, Carpet, Colour, Curtain, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Hazy, Hot, Leaves, Light, Mid-Afternoon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisms, Song, Spring, Summer, Tapis, Time
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ONE MORNING’S MOON
“And he beholds the moon;
like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”
~ Gustave Flaubert ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken circa 1982.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Clef, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Disc, Light, Moon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precision, Scaffolding, Sky, Stave, Wind
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MOONLOVER
“The moon is but a candle-glow that flickers thro’ the gloom…”
~ Vachel Lindsay ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beams, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Earth, Featherbed, Lover, Milk, Moon, Nipple, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quilt, Salt, Sea, Silk, Silver, Slivers, Tide
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GARGOYLE SANS CATHEDRAL
“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”
~ Victor Hugo ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a gargoyle on one of the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral taken in Paris in July 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cathedral, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Electric, Gargoyles, Grotesque, Haunches, Morning, Notre Dame, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Still Born
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GOLDEN FLEECE
“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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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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THE SMOOTH BARED FLESH
“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,
with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”
~ William Blake ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Blue, Brown, Cirrus, Clouds, Cracks, Creases, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Earth, Fantasies, Featherbed, Fingers, Flesh, Green, Life, Light, Love, Milk, Moon, Nipple, Paris, Passions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quilt, Salt, Satiation, Sea, Silk, Slivers
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DEWY DAWN IN DOVER
“Let him smell his way to Dover!”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a Pentax SLR 110 film format photo of Dover Castle, in Dover, England taken in May 1979.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Baptiized, Boobs, Broke, Brown Ale, Dawn, Days, Death, Dew, Digital Imagery, Gills, Heights, Last Rites, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Starless
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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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LINES FOR A LOVER NOT NEXT TO ME
“Absence – that common cure of love.”
~ Lord Byron ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anguish, Beauty, Breasts, Breath, Centuries, Darkness, Dawn, Death, Desperation, Devour, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Exist, Eyes, Feeling, Heart, Imagination, Imprisoned, Life, Love, Memories, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Season, Sleepless, Stars, Time, Walls, Wish, Worlds
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THE RAVISHING
“Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Blush, Breasts, Corner, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Emotions, Heart, Imagination, Life, Love, Lust, Music, Night, Nymph, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ravishing, Satyr, Sex, Shadows, Silken, Song, Squeaking, Sylvan, Thrust, Wine
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ROSES FOR MILADY
“One rose is enough for the dawn.”
~ Edmond Jabes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.
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WHEN I STILL HAD TIME TO DREAM
“Lost time is never found again.”
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aroused, Beauty, Creativity, Curtain, Dawn, Dream, Emotions, Exhausted, Eyes, Fantasies, Future, Horizon, Ideas, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, Painting, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Sandals, Sunset, Time, Words, Write
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MINUIT
“Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!”
~ Lord Byron ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting called “L’Odalisque allongée” by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant taken in Paris in June 2019.
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A THOUSAND DEATHS AGAIN
“I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears
with as much ease as which we close our eyes.”
~ Richard Steele ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture called “Monster” by Léopold Chauveau taken in Paris in June 2019.
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