“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”
~ Paulo Coelho ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.
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Posts Tagged With: Hands
and yet
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Future, Hands, Horizon, Landscape, Life, Love, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soft, Spirit, Touch, Treasure Chest, Vista, Warm, Willing
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twist of fate
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of
another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.
To read is to voyage through time.”
~ Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from two photos of a book from my library taken in March 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Attic, Books, Cellar, Chaos, Conflict, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fate, Hands, Lessons, Libraries, Life, Literature, Miracle, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Readers, Students
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obscured by clouds
“I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.”
~ A.E. Housman ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Clouds, Cross Eyed, Digital Imagery, Ground, Half Note, Hands, Ironies, Knees, Laughter, Litanies, Moon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Selene, Sky
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sing me a soft song of my childhood
“Childhood is a short season.”
~ Helen Hayes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Childhood, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dungeon, Energy, Face, Freedom, Hands, Inspiration, Life, Love, Lullaby, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shroud, Silence, Solitude, Song, Spring, Summer, Veil, Withered, Wrinkled
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ces vieilles mains
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.
It was my other hand.”
~ William S. Burroughs ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Goodbyes, Grasp, Hands, Jungles, Kindness, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Palms, Passion, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Promise, Scarred, Thorns, Time, Worn, Wrinkles
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a study of hands
“My life is light, waiting for the death wind,
Like a feather on the back of my hand.”
~ T. S. Eliot ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Picasso’s Étude des Mains (Study Of Hands) painted in Paris in the spring of 1921 taken in le Musée national Picasso–Paris in May 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Cheeks, Digital Imagery, Dogs, Doors, Fingers, Hands, Hearts, Opportunity, Painting, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Picasso, Poetry, Scars, Sentences, Time, Touch, Words, Wrinkles
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HANDS
“Hands have their own language.”
~ Simon Van Booy ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Comfort, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Friendship, Hands, Ideals, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Touch, Understanding, Warmth, Wisdom
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ONE WAY STREET
“Well it’s such a strange world that I’m living in,
she was my woman and she was my friend,
but I was wrong again…”
~ Leon Russell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Abyss, Beauty, Black Hole, Blind Alley, Clouds, Colour, Conclusion, Curtain, Dead End, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Hands, Horror, Nothingness, One Way Street, Peregrination, Photography, Poetry, Weathered, World, Wrinkled
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THE SILENCE OF HER LIES
“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.”
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Dancing, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Empty, Eyes, Hands, Lies, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Wasteland
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GOT IT!
“The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!”
~ Frederick Loewe ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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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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WOODEN HEARTS
“There are too many souls of wood not to love
those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.”
~ Jean Cocteau ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2012.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Camouflage, Carved, Digital Imagery, Disguise, Eyes, Hands, Heart, Life, Lines, Love, Mileposts, Passions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Signposts, Smoke, Wooden Heart
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BIRTHDATE, TO SOME DEGREE
“Memory, in widow’s weeds,
with naked feet stands on a tombstone.”
~ Aubrey de Vere ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Bristol, England in June 1980.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anthill, Ants, Bees, Birthday, Breath, Buttercups, Catseye, Colours, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eyes, Fingers, Freedom, Grandmother, Grass, Gravestone, Graveyard, Greens, Hands, Hive, Lichens, Lips, Memories, Moss, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollen, Rain, Scales, Seed, Shadows, Skin, Song, Stale, Sun, Tassels, Time, Toes, Withered, Wrinkles
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THE HEART TORN OUT
“There is a wisdom of the head, and…a wisdom of the heart.”
~ Charles Dickens ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bleed, Breath, Cloud, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hands, Heart, Kisses, Life, Lines, Love, Lunacy, Need, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Price, Renaissance Man, Sappho, Shivering, Silence, Soul, Stars, Tallow, Tongue, Touch, Trust, Truth
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THUMPER
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Enhanced image developed from a digital painting created in Spring 2000.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bait, Beauty, Bones, Breasts, Cheeks, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Fishing, Gasping, Gills, Hands, Kisses, Lean, Light, Limbs, Lines, Love, Lungs, Moon, Moonlight, Night, Nipples, Opiate, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Ribs, Sex, Sigh, Skin, Sleep, Squirm, Time, Touch, Worm
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INCURABLE DISEASE
“Now, I ain’t afraid of dyin’,
but there’s one thing I can’t forget,
no one who’s gone over there’s
come back to talk about it yet…”
~ Memphis Slim ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in on the island of Ischia, Italy in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bow, Brave, Clean, Conscience, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disease, Embrace, Exit, Face, Fighting, Future, Hands, Hesitation, Incurable, Life, Mask, Nightmares, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Procrastination, Soliloquy, Stage, Theft, Time, World
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KNOW MYSELF
“Know thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world.
Over the portal of the new world, ‘Be thyself’ shall be written.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in May 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cell, Changes, Colour, Consciousness, Creature, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fossilization, Future, Hands, Imagination, Know, Life, Memories, Mirror, Old, Palette, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Self-Awareness, Spotted, Time, Wrinkled
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THE GOLDEN SHAFT
“He who climbs upon the highest mountains
laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original Polaroid photo taken at the Peaks Of Otter, Virginia in Spring 1978 .
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Forever, Gibberish, God, Golden Calf, Hands, Lies, Life, Misspellings, Mistakes, Moses, Mountain, Never, Pants, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Shaft, Song And Dance, Tablets, Time, Truth, Wisdom
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HOW MANY HANDS
“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
~ Charles Spurgeon ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ardour, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, Doorknob, Emotions, Forbearance, Grace, Hands, Heart, Hope, Key, Life, Love, Memories, Old, Paris, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Promise, Sensuous, Shadows, Sin, Tattered, Time, Torn, Understanding, Weathered, Worn
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A DAY SPENT SITTING IN THE SUN
“Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.”
~ Buster Keaton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blather, Chatter, Children, Colour, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Hands, Life, Love, Lovers, Motion, Noise, Paris, Pensioners, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Street Art, Sun, Wrinkles
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