CATMADNESS

 

Back in the 1970’s, when I was living and working in Virginia,

a friend came to work one morning and told me a story

about his cat, his girlfriend and a squeaky brass bed.

The cat kept thinking that he was hearing a mouse

and would come into the bedroom to investigate.

His story inspired this poem.

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Sherlocke, my incredible cat, taken in November 1974.

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MOONLOVER

 

“The moon is but a candle-glow that flickers thro’ the gloom…”

 

~ Vachel Lindsay ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020.

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SOLO OUT UPON THE STAGE

 

“It is little men know of women;

their smiles and their tears alike

are seldom what they seem.”

 

~ Amelia Barr ~

 

Digitally enhanced image rendered as a painting created in March 2001.

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NO DIPLOMA

 

“Though the night was made for loving,

and the day returns too soon,

yet we’ll go no more a-roving

by the light of the moon.”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art (William S. Burroughs in the Rue Gît le Coeur) taken in Paris in May 2018.

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MINUIT

 

“Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!”

 

~ Lord Byron ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting called “L’Odalisque allongée” by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant taken in Paris in June 2019.

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ANNE MARIE

 

“I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.”

 

~ Vincent van Gogh ~

 

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

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ONLY TO READ

 

“Fill your house with stacks of books,

in all the crannies and all the nooks.”

 

~ Dr. Seuss ~

 

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

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GARDEN SCENE (صحنه باغ)

 

“I was twenty-one when I wrote this,

with the long path of my life

stretching unknown before me.”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

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

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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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DEN LILLE HAVFRUE

 

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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

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A PIECE OF THE PUZZLE

 

“I am a searcher…
I always was… and I still am…
searching for the missing piece.”

 

~ Louise Bourgeois ~

 

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

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