“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
~ Khalil Gibran ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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Posts Tagged With: History
a personal observation
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chord Changes, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eye, Feet, Fingers, Hermes, History, Laughter, Life, Love, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soundtrack, Tapestry, Tears, Time, Years
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as civilization begins to crumble
“We can endure neither our vices
nor the remedies needed to cure them.”
~ Livy ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Annihilation, Change, Civilization, Crumble, Darkness, Death, Decay, Digital Imagery, Dust, Future, History, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Self-Aggrandizement, Shadows, Time, Weeds
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lullaby for losers
“Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in October 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Canker, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Earth, Fools, Future, History, Life, Losers, Lullaby, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pig-Ignorant, Planet, Poetry, Species, Street Art, Value
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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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revolution is forever
“True revolution comes from true revulsion;
when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”
~ Charles Bukowski ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Roman sculpture of a Celtic warrior prisoner, taken in January 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Authority, Change, Commitment, Corrupt, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dignity, Equality, Forever, Future, Hated, Heart, History, Human Rights, Individuals, Inequality, Injustice, Institutions, Justice, Life, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protection, Purge, Revolution, Sanctity, Streets, Strong, Vigilance
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the winds of war
“I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence,
unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
~ Erich Maria Remarque ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aggressors, Bombs, Bones, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, History, Lies, Life, Old Men, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Propaganda, Revenge, Senselessness, Victims, War, Winds Of War, Young Men
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the fragment of a tear
“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates
the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”
~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathy, Art, Cockroaches, Death, Digital Imagery, Dragonflies, Experiment, Extermination, Extinction, Future, Harmony, History, Hope, Humanity, Ignorance, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Memories, Music, Nature, Paris, Past, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Science, Stupidity, Tear, Time, Weep
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les mensonges
“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adam and Eve, Apple, Charlatans, Digital Imagery, History, Ignorance, Les Mensonges, Lies, Life, Old Testament, Paris, Peasants, Pewter, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Proletarian, Seduction, Snake, Spoons, Truth
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love your world
“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War
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too many books
“Psychopathia librorum…
I surround myself with the printed word.”
~ Sven Birkerts ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Amuse, Beauty, Books, Digital Imagery, Dust, Entertain, Future, History, Knowledge, Learning, Literature, Memories, Pages, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shelves, Think, Time, Time Machine
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a purpose
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand
as in what direction we are moving.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in September 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bottle, Brothel, Digital Imagery, History, Language, Mimicry, Mystery, Paupers, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purpose, Ship, Street Art, Waddle
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immortality
“A book is the only immortality.”
~ Rufus Choate ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Black Magic, Books, Darkness, Death, Elixirs, Future, Heart, History, Immortality, Incantations, Life, Literature, Love, Memory, Minds, Pages, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potions, Spells, Time, Treasure, Wisdom
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FADE
“Life has to be given a meaning
because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
~ Henry Miller ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Accomplishments, Anonymity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fade, Future, History, Instant, Life, Memories, Names, Nothing, Oblivion, Obscurity, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Posterity, Time
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CASTING SHADOWS
“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”
~ Vladimir Nabokov ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Comprehension, Death, Digital Imagery, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sunlight, Understanding, Universe
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PEACE
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Avarice, Awareness, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fanatics, Future, Greed, History, Life, Love, Mercy, Nightmare, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Self-Aggrandizement, Selfishness, War, Wealth, Weapons
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AMERICANS LOVE
“Guns don’t kill people. Gun owners kill people.”
~ Oliver Markus Malloy ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Americans, Apple Pie, Assault Weapons, Cars, Childrern, Death, Digital Imagery, Fourth Of July, Freedom, Guns, History, Hollywood, Inventiveness, Movies, Murder, Myths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Violence
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FOUR BEFORE TWELVE
“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie
every environmental problem we face today.”
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathy, Ashes, Blind, Burning, Carcass, Darkness, Deaf, Death, Digital Imagery, Dumb, Elephant, Embers, History, House, Humanity, Ignorance, Indifference, Legacy, Life, Overpopulation, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Time, Twelve O'Clock, Wind
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THE SKIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS
“Close your eyes and see the beauty.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Beauty, Consciousness, Digital Imagery, Existence, Eyes, Fabric, Heart, History, Life, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Soul, Universe
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A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE
Words, too, have genuine substance –
mass and weight and specific gravity.”
~ Tim O’Brien ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Attraction, Centuries, Communication, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dust, Galaxies, Gravity, History, Imagination, Life, Literature, Magic, Memories, Paris, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Stars, Time, Time Machine, Words
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IN THE FLICKERING LIGHT
“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how
people were depicted inside nature, not outside it.
It was a kind of dream time…”
~ Gregory Colbert ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Art, Artist, Belief, Cave Art, Cave Paintings, Caves, Dreams, Emotions, History, Mushrooms, Painting, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spirits, Superstition
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