GRACE MY TABLE

 

“Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story

of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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

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POTPOURRI

 

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

 

~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1971.

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THE EPITOME OF SIN

 

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner

is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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CLOWNS IN A THREE RING BINDER

 

”All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

To be natural is to be obvious,

and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

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ELECTRICITY

 

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

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DEATH AND PASSION

 

“Death is inevitable, passion is eternal.”

 

~ Allison van Diepen ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of the sculpture “Les Nubiens” by Ernest Barrias (1894) taken in Paris in June 2019.

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THE DRAGON IS DANCING

 

“Never laugh at live dragons.”

 

~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of embroidery by my friend Randy Hase taken in December 2019.

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ELLE DANSE AVEC DES MOTS

 

“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 ~

 

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HOW MANY HANDS

 

“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

 

~ Charles Spurgeon ~

 

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SECOND SIGHT

 

“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

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LA DÉESSE DU PRINTEMPS

 

“Well-apparell’d April on the heel of limping winter treads…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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THE FIRE IN HER EYES

 

“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story.”

 

~ Robert Fitzgerald ~

 

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OMBRES

 

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

 

~ Gregory Maguire ~

 

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AWAKENED

 

“Awakening into love is a lifelong path.”

 

~ David Simon ~

 

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UN VIE VOLÉE

 

“What I want from life

is not always what life wants from me.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

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BLUE TEAT HIGH

 

“Feminism isn’t about making women strong.

Women are already strong.

It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”

 

~ G.D. Anderson ~

 

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TENDER TINDER

 

“And many such good inventions are there,

that they are like woman’s breasts:

useful at the same time, and pleasant.”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

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RAVEN, OH RAVEN

 

“Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.”

 

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

 

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TREES TALK

 

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a dendrochronological sample of a tree felled in the year 30 AD, taken in March 2018.

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WHATEVER GETS YOU THROUGH THE NIGHT

 

“We are always the same age inside.“

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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