SOOTHE A SAVAGE BREAST

 

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

 

~ William Congreve ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

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IN THE FLICKERING LIGHT

 

“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how

people were depicted inside nature, not outside it.

It was a kind of dream time…”

 

~ Gregory Colbert ~

 

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

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FLIGHTS OF FANCY

 

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,

and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2010.

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LAST LEAF

 

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

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

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LEGACY

 

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

 

~ Nelson Henderson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.

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BEAUTIFUL BITCH

 

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

 

~ Dion Boucicault ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.

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SCREAM

 

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

 

~ Francisco Goya ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2010.

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NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN

 

“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”

 

~ George Eliot ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2014.

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SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BETWEEN

 

“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”

 

~ Peter Sinfield ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.

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THE DISTANCE OF MYTH

 

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken from the summit of one of the Peaks Of Otter in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the summer of 1977.

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SANS SCRIPT

 

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2016.

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PASTURES ONCE GREEN AND GROWING

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

~ Khalil Gibran ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at The King Barrows on the Salisbury Plain, England in June 2007.

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LESSONS IN THE HALF LIGHT

 

“We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust…”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 2004.

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STOLEN WORDS

 

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

 

~ Pablo Picasso ~

 

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CONTINUES TO CONFUSE

 

“Confusion will be my epitaph

as I crawl a cracked and broken path,

if we make it we can all sit back and laugh,

but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying…”

 

~ Peter Sinfield ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2021.

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ELECTRIC ECLECTIC

 

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced solarized image created from a photo taken in April 2021.

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A SMILE

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

~ Walter Scott ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2015.

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DOORS

 

“Behind some doors lie our wildest dreams, behind others our worst

nightmares and behind them all always the energy and the adventure

that makes us whole. The challenge is in finding the balance and

the reward is a life enriched with the beauty

and the magic of the world around us…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken with an analog Minolta camera in October 1992 on the island of Santorini. The door opened to a drop of a few hundred meters, straight down to the rocks and the sea below. Good that it was chained shut, but it was one door that I wouldn’t have been tempted to open anyway. The view was breathtaking enough.

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DUST BY THE SHOVEL

 

“Sometimes she was fine when the moon would shine,

    unfortunately it was usually cloudy…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Gerhard Marcks’ sculpture Spielende Hengste  (Frolicking Stallions) (1962) taken in 1980..

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THE OIL OF YOU

 

“And ever has it been known that love knows not

its own depth until the hour of separation.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Vénus Sortant Du Bain by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain taken in Paris in June 2019.

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