“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”
~ Raymond Chandler ~
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Posts Tagged With: Leaves
film noir
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Claws, Cobblestones, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, Film Noir, Leaves, Life, Light, Madness, Midnight, Nightmare, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reaper, Shadow, Windows
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the space to scribble
“Breathe in experience, breathe out poetry.”
~ Muriel Rukeyser ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.
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wintertide
“He withers all in silence, and in his hand
unclothes the earth and freezes up frail life.”
~ William Blake ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Cold, Death, Digital Imagery, Ice, Leaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Snow, Winter, Wintertide
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dreams fading
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who
can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees
the dawn before the rest of the world.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Butterflies, Candle, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Leaves, Memory, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleep, Wind, Wings
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ROSES MORTES
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,
just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in June 2018.
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CAMOUFLAGED
“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”
~ Margaret Atwood ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Autumn, Boulevards, Camouflage, Chill, Dampen, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dungeon, Fog, Future, Labyrinths, Landscape, Leaves, Life, Memories, Mystery, Old, Old Age, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rues, Shadows
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LIKE APPLES
“Woman is at once apple and serpent.”
~ Heinrich Heine ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 1989.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apples, Bark, Brambles, Briars, Digital Imagery, Gnarled, Initials, Leaves, Life, Love, Memories, Noah's Ark, Observations, Photography, Poetry, Snarled, Theft, Trees
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WEE
“It takes a long time to become young.”
~ Pablo Picasso ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in La Palma, the Canary Islands in November 1994.
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LAST LEAF
“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
watches beside me in this windy place.”
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Kite-Like, Labyrinths, Leaf, Leaves, Love, Mazes, Mouth, Netherland, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puzzles, Seasons, Voice, Wind, Winter, Words
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TÊTE-À-TÊTES
“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”
“Autumn is the hush before winter.”
~ French Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Dream, Earthquakes, Fires, Leaves, Life, Loneliness, Love, Memories, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Seasons, Slaughter, Storms, Tête-À-Têtes, Tombs, Wind
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THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
“The world is tired, the year is old,
the faded leaves are glad to die…”
~ Sara Teasdale ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2004.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Autumn, Beauty, Death, Digital Imagery, Illusion, Leaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Trees
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THE LAST LEAF
“Autumn is the hush before winter.”
~ French Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Autumn, Bees, Branches, Death, Digital Imagery, Gray, Leaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Trees, Wind, Winter
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WHEN THE SKIES WERE SUDDENLY SILENT
“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”
~ Robert Fripp ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in August 1989.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Airplane, Birds, Cacophony, Commerce, Digital Imagery, Leaves, Life, Lullabies, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Silence, Skies, Songs, Turbines, Wind
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TAPIS
“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”
~ Theodore Roethke ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Blossoms, Carpet, Colour, Curtain, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Hazy, Hot, Leaves, Light, Mid-Afternoon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisms, Song, Spring, Summer, Tapis, Time
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STOLEN WORDS
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
~ Pablo Picasso ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Spring 2002.
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BICYCLE
“The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.”
~ Tennessee Williams ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1980.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Autumn, Bicycle, Digital Imagery, Hair, Harvest, Hounds, Howl, Hunt, Leaves, Moon, October, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Street, Wheels
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THE FABRIC OF OUR SOULS
“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”
~ Charles Ives ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.
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IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
~ Sydney J. Harris ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Happiness, Heart, Leaves, Moment, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sunshine, Thoughts, Trees
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SCRIPTURE
“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.
Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
~ Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Avenues, Blood, Breezes, Cement, Cobbles, Cold, Corners, Cracks, Dancing, Darkness, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Document, Ice, Leaves, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preserve, Resurrection, Rooftop, Rumours, Scripture, Season, Semen, Shadows, Sisters, Slime, Snow, Spice, Stars, Streets, Tea, Towels, Trowels, Vowels, Wine
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A NUMBNESS
“Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.”
~ David Whyte ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cold, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Fabric, Heart, Killers, Leaves, Life, Night, Numbness, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soul, Streets, Time, Wind
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