“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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Posts Tagged With: Leaves
LAST LEAF
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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POET TREE
“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”
~ Jean Cocteau ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1991.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anticipation, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Grammar, Green, Imagination, Insanity, Inspiration, Leaves, Life, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Proverbs, Roots, Seasons, Seeds, Trees, Words
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SPANISH JUNE
“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,
they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,
cocaine run all ’round my brain…”
~ Traditional ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bed, Blood, Carrion, City, Cocaine, Days, Digital Imagery, Ears, Faces, Fading, Flags, Hot, Imagination, Insects, June. Spanish, Kings, Leaves, Naked, Perspective, Photography, Poet, Poetry, Pulse, River, Shoulders, Smile, Soft Machine, Streets, Summer, Sun, Thin, Thoughts, Trees, Vulture, Whispers, Windowsill, Witches, Words
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BAG OF IMAGERY
“…as sometimes at sunset
the rosyfingered moon
surpasses all the stars…”
~ Sappho ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2019.
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PILES OF BONES
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
~ Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in 1988.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Arrogance, Birds, Birdsong, Bones, Civilization, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Extinction, Future, Humans, Leaves, Legacy, Life, Narcissism, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Ruins, Shadows, Sky, Time, Water, Wind
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NO GOD
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anarchy, Ashes, Autumn, Avenues, Barbarism, Breath, Burned, Cadavers, Capitalism, Cathedral, Choke, Civilization, Contorted, Culture, Darkness, Death, Decency, Digital Imagery, Eat, Enlightenment, Food, Fools, God, Heart, Humanity, Ignorance, Leaves, Life, Money, No Future, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rags, Religion, Rich, Rubble, Shadows, Streets, Twisted, Virus
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CAMOUFLAGED
“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”
~ Margaret Atwood ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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DISROBED
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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NO BREEZE BREATHES
“Love is the first and most devious deceiver,
the most seductive delusion.”
~ J. Earp ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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