“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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Posts Tagged With: Death
OVERKILL
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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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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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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LORELEI’S GHOST
“Beneath me flows the Rhine,
and, like the stream of Time,
it flows amid the ruins of the Past.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Rhine taken in February 2016.
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AFTERLIFE
“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.
But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.
We are programmed to betray.”
~ Michael Ignatieff ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an archaeological find material storage depot taken in the early 1990’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afterlife, Archaeology, Bones, Cartons, Catalogued, Death, Digital Imagery, dreams, Eternity, Graves, Heaven, Hell, History, Illustrated, Life, Measured, Memories, Numbered, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resurrection, Reward, Shelves, Skeletons, Storeroom, Studied, Time
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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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MY BLANK PAGES
“The blank page gives us the right to dream.”
~ Gaston Bachelard ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Berlin, Blank Page, Breathe, Burn, Choke, Death, Debate, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Empty, Fate, Hate, Helsinki, Imagination, Jab, Joke, Life, Love, Mystery, Oblivion, Overflow, Pages, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pulitzer, Sea, Smoke, Space, Story, Web, White, Words, World
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UNTIL THE CURTAINS CLOSE
“On the planet where the shadows roam
the end is always within sight.”
~ Jordan G Kobos ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of street art in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Abel, Cain, Curtains, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fable, Fact, Life, Night, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art
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THE FIRST ACT IN THE TRAGEDY OF TOUCH
“Touch has a memory.”
~ John Keats ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a restored Roman mosaic taken in June 2004.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bubbles, Country Bumpkins, Death, Digital Imagery, Distance, Emotions, First Act, Kings, Life, Love, Lyre, Madness, Magic, Moments, Music, Notes, Offender, Orpheus, Past, Perspective, Photography, Play, Poetry, Pretender, Queens, Role, Tears, Touch, Tragedy, Troubles, University, Weeping
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THE CAGE
“The bars on our cage are of our own making.”
~ Jessie Burton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1993.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cage, Cancelled, Concerts, Culture, Danger, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Festivals, Friends, Habit, Handshake, Hug, Imprisonment, Kiss, Nightmare, Normality, Parole, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rehearsals, Risks, Routines, Sanity, Spontaneity, Sunrises, Sunsets, Time
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FROM THE ASHES
“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”
~ Octavia Butler ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Ashes, Atmosphere, Bleeding, Cerebral, Credentials, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Embers, Feathered, Feces, Fire, Flashes, Impressed, Life, Lightning, Night, Past, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Ribbons, Sashes, Smoked, Smouldered, Stars, Sun, Unblest, Undressed, Wings
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