Posts Tagged With: Ghost

the last rose of summer

 

“What a lovely thing a rose is!”

 

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

 

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


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WETSTEPS

 

“I feared this once, but I never knew that a sky so black, was once so blue.”

 

~ Billy J. Barnum ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.


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LAST FEW BREATHS

 

“When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window.
His last breath obscures the glass.” 

 

~ Anne Michaels ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1989.


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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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GHOST IN ME

 

“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”

 

~ Libba Bray ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.


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ANCIENT SKINS

 

“If you’re not getting older, you’re dead.”

 

~ Tom Petty ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in August 2017.


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CARNET EROTIC, PAGE ELEVEN

 

“The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of an actual page of Jean Cocteau’s Carnet Erotic, (page eleven), taken in Paris in June 2019.


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NINE SILVER GOBLETS OF ME

 

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather
and a little music played out of doors
by somebody I do not know.”

 

~ John Keats ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019.


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PAGES STAINED

 

“…the only thing actually promised
in this life is uncertainty.”

 

~ Alicia Cook ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.


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A COMFORTABLE FIT

 

“Cancel my subscription to the resurrection…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2018. Photo courtesy of Mühlberger Media Inc.


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LE CŒUR FRAGILE

 

“The heart was made to be broken.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.


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WRAITH

 

“The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2017.


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THE GHOST OF RUE MOUFFETARD

 

“The past was but the cemetery of our illusions:
one simply stubbed one’s toes on the gravestones.”

 

~ Émile Zola ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.


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