“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”
~ George Eliot ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art in Paris taken in August 2015.
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Posts Tagged With: Fire
give and take
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Black, Day, Digital Imagery, Down, Fire, Give And Take, Happy, Hard, Ice, Life, Light, Love, Minus, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plus, Poetry, Sad, Shadow, Soft, Sour, Street Art, Sweet, Up, White
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jungle fire
“Somewhere old memories echoed
from the street in a crying hole,
just a song from long ago…”
~ Tim Buckley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Burns, Digital Imagery, Fire, Jungle, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Survive, Years
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lamp
“Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Roman lamp taken in 2004.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Fear, Fire, Flame, History, Lamp, Light, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Warmth
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PRIVATE HELL
“Aequat omnes cinis.”
~ Seneca ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Ashes, Burning, Cards, Chance, Coal, Darkness, Dealer, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Hell, Ignorance, Intensity, Lies, Life, Looking Glass, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Piper, Poetry, Reflections, Shadows, Truth
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DELIRIUM
“I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.”
~ Samuel Beckett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Circles, Coat, Death, Delirium, Devil, Digital Imagery, Fire, Marshmallows, Mask, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sleepless, Spinning
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MATTER DANCE
“Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
~ Bill Hicks ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of a cave in the Vézère Valley, Dordogne, France in June 2006.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chance, Clay, Clown, Dance, Digital Imagery, Dreamland, Fire, Joker, Life, Matter, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poker, Strangeness, Thistles, Toes, Tongues, Trance, Whistles, Words
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NEVER SAW THE TEARS
“Tears are the silent language of grief.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Ears, Fame, Fire, Flames, Light, Moonlight, Moth, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Scream, Tears, Voice
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I LOOKED UP
“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”
~ Tim Buckley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chain, Digital Imagery, Evening, Fire, Hands, Images, Jungle, Mind, Page, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrance, Savages, Street Art, Summer, Sun, Time, Up
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UP TO OUR ASHES
“Love. Of course, love.
Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”
~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.
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FROM THE UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT
“There are no causes, only raisins.”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Choir, Chorus, Coffee, Collars, College, Cream, Desire, Digital Imagery, Dream, Fire, Latin, Life, Love, Manuscript, Math, Nightmare, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Physics, Poetry, Satin, Satire, Scholars, Unpublished, Wax
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WITH A FORK
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I’m frightened of the old ones.”
~ John Cage ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Burn, Cinders, Digital Imagery, Dish, Embers, Fire, Fork, Fossils, Life, Moon, Music, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sentences, Skeleton, Spoon, Street Art, Tide, Tune
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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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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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PHOENIX
“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”
~ Octavia Butler ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a Polaroid photo taken in the mid 1970’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Ashes, Atmosphere, Beast, Bird, Bleeding, Cerebral, Could, Couldn't, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Embers, Emotions, Feces, Fire, Further, Imagination, Life, Lightning, Love, Memories, Night, Past, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Remember, Ribbons, Sashes, Shadows, Smoked, Smouldered, Stars, Sun, Undressed
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SERPENTINE EYES
“I will have my serpent’s tongue,
my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice.
I will overcome the tradition of silence.”
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Breasts, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Erotica, Eyes, Face, Fire, Fists, Fuck, Hiss, Life, Lips, Love, Magma, Naked, Nipples, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pumice, Serpentine, Sex, Shining, Snake-Like, Suck, Sweating, Tattered, Thighs, Torn, Wet
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ELECTRIK WET
“Oh stay a while, and I will die with thee;
So shalt thou yield, and yet have conquered me.”
~ Thomas Kyd ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.
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THE OTHER DAY DOWN IN HELL
“We are only born once – twice is not allowed –
and it is necessary that we shall be no more,
for all eternity…”
~ Epicurus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1983.
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HIDDEN
“There are fewer ways of making love than they say,
and more than one believes.”
~ Renee Vivien ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in July 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Affection, Afterglow, Ardour, Beauty, Blush, Body, Breasts, Cheeks, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Erotica, Fantasy, Fervour, Fingers, Fire, Heart, Hidden, Honey, Life, Love, Lovers, Magma, Orgasm, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Sanctuary, Satiation, Sensuality, Sex, Skin, Soul
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IGNIS FATUUS
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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QUE SAIS-JE?
“Je pense, donc je suis.”
~ René Descartes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris taken in June 2019.
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