MOON WHISPERS

 

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver.

Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken somewhere in west central France in 2006.

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THE CAGE

 

“The bars on our cage are of our own making.”

 

~ Jessie Burton ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1993.

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TRUE SISTER

 

“Each friend represents a world in us,

a world not born until they arrive,

and it is only by this meeting

that a new world is born.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2009.

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COME BLOW YOUR HORN

 

“The point is, you can never be too greedy.”

 

~ Donald J. Trump ~

 

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

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THE RELUCTANT PRINCE

 

“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,

are you sure all we did was kiss?”

 

~ Red Buttons ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.

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HEAT TAKE TWO

 

“The bed must be a beautiful place,

not only because you make love there

but because you dream there as well.”

 

~ Anais Nin ~

 

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

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DESSAMA

 

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”

 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

 

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

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NODDING TED

 

“Stop nodding your head.”

 

~ Albert Einstein ~

 

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

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ÉTREINTE DE L’ANGE

 

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

 

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.

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TEN HEARTS

 

“Go to your bosom; knock there,

and ask your heart what it doth know…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

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LE BAISER

 

“How far away the stars seem,

and how far is our first kiss,

and ah, how old my heart.”

 

~ William Butler Yeats ~

 

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

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FAT HENS

 

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

 

~ e. e. cummings ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2018.

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MONS MAMILLA

 

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”

 

~ Carolyn Forche ~

 

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

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COCK-A-DOODLE DOO

 

“A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief;

it is a superstition.”

 

~ Jose Bergamin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in “Cimetière du Pere-Lachaise“ in Paris in May 2017.

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click on this link for more information about Victor Noir’s grave, who died on this date in 1870:

https://nitepoetry.wordpress.com/2014/04/08/a-paris-moment-the-grave-of-victor-noir/

GIRL WITH A GREEN BEAD NECKLACE

 

“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,

Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature.”

 

~ Sappho ~

 

Digital painting “Green Beads” created in May 2017.

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KISS ME QUICK

 

“A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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

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GAMAHUCHE

 

“The tragedy of sexual intercourse is

the perpetual virginity of the soul.”

 

~ William B. Yeats ~

 

Digital painting “Glisten” created in September 2017 from an original concept first visualized in 2001.

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BEAUTIFUL LIES YOU COULD LIVE IN

 

“There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.”

 

~ Arthur Dobrin ~

 

Digitally enhanced and cropped image created from an original photo of street art taken in Mainz-Kastel, Germany in July 2017.

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MAMELON

 

“Are we not like two volumes of one book?”

 

~ Marceline Desbordes-Valmore ~

 

Digital image “Mamelon” created in June 2017.

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LAST NIGHT

 

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Rue Broca in Paris in May 2017.

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