“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”
~ Tacitus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Colosseum in Rome in June 1996.
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Posts Tagged With: Folly
PENANCE
“The man hath penance done, and penance more will do.”
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Agility, Canvas, Clumsiness, Digital Imagery, Disease, Face, Folly, Knees, Lair, Life, Lions, Nowhere, Paris, Pattern, Penance, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Race, Risk, Scarred, Sentence, Shadows, Stare, Step, Street Art, Tails
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BLACK BILE
“The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it.”
~ Israelmore Ayivor ~
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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ballet, Bananas, Beauty, Bells, Bile, Black, Breath, Buffoons, Cadavers, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Dogs, Dreams, Eyes, Feast, Feet, Fishmouths, Folly, Forest, Future, Gomorrah, Greed, Gutters, Gypsies, Idiots, Lakes, Land, Life, Lords, Lunacy, Meal, Moans, Mucus, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Secretions, Semen, Serfs, Sewers, Sex, Shadows, Shivers, Sidewalks, Skills, Skulls, Smiles, Sodom, Spittle, Swallow, Tapestry, Tarts, Teats, Terpsichore, Terror, Thieves, Threads, Trees, Tuna, Vermin, Wicked
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SIREN
“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”
~ Gertrude Stein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Balls, Beauty, Breasts, Capitulation, Carnal, Death, Depth, Digital Imagery, Dung, Emotions, Erotica, Finality, Finger, Flies, Flotsam, Folly, Heart, Licentious, Life, Love, Music, Nipples, Orgasmic, Oscillations, Passion, Phallus, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Seduction, Sex, Siren, Slaughter, Suckled
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NOW
“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees
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DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
“Days are stringed instruments
and every one strikes a different note.”
~ Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.
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Categories: Haikus, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Folly, Haikus, Life, Paradise, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time
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MOON SHINE DOWN
“No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.”
~ Ashanti Proverb ~
Photo taken in Germany in May 2017.
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Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Common Sense, Folly, Moon, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stupidity
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SCREAM
“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
~ Francisco Goya ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Church of St. Katharin in Oppenheim, Germany in January 2010.
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Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Demons, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Fate, Folly, Nightmares, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Scream, Sleep
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