“I can’t feel a thing;
All mournful petal storms are dancing
inside the very private spring of my head.”
~ Franz Kafka ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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Posts Tagged With: Fate
PETALS PLUCKED
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Certainty, Chance, Death, Digital Imagery, Exist, Fate, Future, Gods, Insect, Life, Love, Pages, Perspective, Petals, Photography, Poetry, Prayer, Prophesize, Winds
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ON THE IDES
“The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.”
~ Julius Caesar ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Roman coin (actually the Emperor Trajan) taken in March 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Brutus, Butcher, Caesar, Digital Imagery, Fate, Knives, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soothsayer, Spurinna, The Ides Of March, Treachery
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SWIRLS, SMILES AND SNARLS
“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.”
~ John Lennon ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Fate, Lives, Lonely, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smiles, Snarls, Souls, Swirls, Whirlwind
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WHEN TIMES WERE TIMES
“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
~ Tennessee Williams ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2017.
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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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SACRILEGE
“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Balance, Chance, Circumstance, Create, Creativity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Enlighten, Fate, Fragile, Future, Heart, Heartbeat, Inspire, Learn, Life, Love, Memories, Opportunity, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potential, Sacrilege, Thread, Time, Wasted Time
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VIRUS
“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage
and unabashed in its cruelty.”
~ Aysha Taryam ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Poetry
Tags: Borders, Consequences, Contaminates, Cruelty, Cure, Death, Digital Imagery, Disease, Earth, Earth Day, Fate, Humanity, Infest, Innocent, Kill, Life, Mercy, No Quarter, Obscenity, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Planet, Poetry, Sickness, Unsuspecting, Vaccine, Virus
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FRAGILITY
“nothing which we are to perceive in this world
equals the power of your intense fragility.”
~ e. e. cummings ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo, taken in April 2020, of thin 2000 year old pieces of birch bark that were preserved in a layer of sand, mud and loam below the level of the ground water table.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Birch Bark, Chance, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Fate, Fragility, Life, Luck, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plan, Poetry, Purpose, Sand, Shuffle, Thread, Time
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CALIX
“Suspicion is a tenuous thing,
so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth
is not easy to determine.”
~ Francis Iles ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aphrodisiac, Beauty, Calix, Craving, Darkness, Death, Die, Digital Imagery, Drink, Elixir, Emotions, Eyes, Fate, Goblet, Heart, Hunger, Intentions, Life, Live, Love, Malice Aforethought, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Shadows, Thirst
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TOWARDS THE LIGHT
“For the unlearned, old age is winter;
for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”
~ Hasidic Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Age, Clouds, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Fate, Future, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Ironic, Life, Light, Memories, Old, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sagacity, Satisfaction, Sentience, Thirst, Time, Vision, Young, Youth
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DELTA FLORA
“I admit that I am an old man.
I read my years in my mirror,
others read them on my brow.”
~ Petrarch ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of Flapping Shutters Ltd.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ardour, Bouquet, Crevices, Darkness, Death, Delta, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fate, Flavoured, Flora, Future, Heart, Imagination, Life, Love, Memories, Moist, Old Age, Pale, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Sex, Shadows, Time, Visage
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VALLEY OF SHADOWS
“Love is, after all, a selfish thing;
and it throws a black shadow on anything
between which and the light it stands.”
~ Bram Stoker ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture (detail) by Antoine Bourdelle taken in Paris in June 2019.
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VENUS EXPOSED
“Venus smiles not in a house of tears.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original scanned 35mm slide taken in late 1998. From the author’s private archives.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Beauty, Breasts, Buried, Centuries, Clay, Darkness, Deities, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Goddesses, Gods, Grave, Hips, History, Imagination, Kiln, Life, Love, Misfired, Past, Photography, Poetry, Potter, Roman Empire, Shoulders, Statue, Temperature, Time, Venus
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HOLEY HEAVENS
“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”
~ Judy Garland ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chance, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Escape, Fate, Gray, Heavens, Hole, Imagination, Ladder, Life, Light, Photography, Poetry
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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 an original 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, Photography, Poetry, Puzzle, Wasteland, Whirlpools, 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 an original 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, 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 an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Consequences, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Existence, Fate, Future, Generations, History, Imagination, Life, Memories, Night, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Stars, Time, Truth, Universe
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ABSINTHE
“Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.”
~ Ethel Mumford ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of “In A Café,” a painting by Edgar Degas, taken in Paris in June 2019.
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PHASES AND SHADOWS
“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,
don’t make the wheel start up again,
then is now and now is then,
it’s the same thing…”
~ John Greaves ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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L’OMBRE DE LA MORT
“Life itself is but the shadow of death,
and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”
~ Thomas Browne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Birth, Companion, Conception, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Hourglass, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Time
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