“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”
~ Terry Pratchett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2020.
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Posts Tagged With: Memories
the ghosts of my life
“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”
~ Lauren Oliver ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a Polaroid negative taken sometime around 1970.
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never looked back
“I never waste time looking back.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.
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all that nothing
“All that nothing causes all that pain…”
~ Chris Smither ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Angles, Bangles, Baubles, Breasts, Bubbles, Dawdled, Diddled, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Equilibrium, Fallacy, Fellatio, Fingers, Flat Chest, Floozy, Huffing, Laminated, Life, Lips, Love, Meander, Memories, Nipple, Nothing, Palaver, Paris, Passion, Perculated, Perspective, Photography, Pissing, Poetry, Protractor, Puffing, Sphincteral, Tongue, Treacle, Warble
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ruines
“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,
but ruin in their eyes.”
~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France) taken in Paris in December 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Desolation, Destruction, Detritus, Devastation, Digital Imagery, Fragments, Heart, Hypocrisy, Life, Love, Memories, Obstruction, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Rhyme, Ruins, Shadows, Soul
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dans un brouillard
“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”
~ Charles Bukowski ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Brouillard, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Duvet, Emotions, Fog, Gloom, Heart, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Mind, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soul, Street Art, Tear
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look back in anger
“There is nothing so cruel in this world
as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”
~ Haruki Murakami ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anger, Apathy, Cluelessness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Empathy, Faceless, Fallacy, Friendships, Frustration, Future, Hopelessness, Ignorance, Life, Love, Memories, Narcissism, Nescience, Opportunities, Oppressors, Past, Peers, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Sins, Street Art, Stupidity, Time, Weep
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open book
“A breeze discovered my open book,
and began to flutter the leaves to look.”
~ Robert Frost ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bookshelf, Chapters, Chart, Compass, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Documentation, Dog-Eared, Dreams, Emotions, Fog, Handwritten, Index, Letters, Life, Lines, Love, Memories, Obscure, Old, Pages, Paragraphs, Paris, Passion, Past, Pencil, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reviews, Shadows, Tattered, Time, Tome, Trivial, Wishes, Worn
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fantômes
“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”
~ John Malkovich ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cheeks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Eyes, Faces, Friends, Future, Ghosts, Hissing, Letters, Life, Memories, Mirror, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rots, Shadows, Shredder, Skin, Texts, Time, Whispering
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flapper
“A Flapper is one with a jitney body and a limousine mind.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bearcat, Beauty, Bees Knees, Bluenose, Breasts, Bubs, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Erotica, Flapper, Gams, Hot To Trot, Hotsy-Totsy, Life, Love, Memories, Nookie, Ossified, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Skee, Spifficated, Sugar Daddy, Toot, Vamp, Whoopee, Zozzled
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summer solstice
“But thy eternal Summer shall not fade.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo taken at Stonehenge in England as the sun rose over the Heel Stone on the morning of June 21st 1983.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ancestors, Balling, Beauty, Breasts, Day, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Drums, Flutes, Hashish, Heel Stone, Love, Lutes, Magic, Memories, Mushrooms, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smoke, Solstice, Spirits, Stonehenge, Summer, Wine, Youth
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page three
“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”
~ James Thurber ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cheese, Cloak, Crotch, Digital Imagery, Egg, Eyes, Fantasies, Fingers, Invisibility, Invisible Ink, Life, Memories, Mind, Mineral, Mirror, Neck, Page, Perspective, Petticoat, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Silence, Sky, Smoke, Soundtrack, Time, Turntable, | Tags: Book
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spice
“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”
~ Joan Aiken ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Imagination, Intuition, Life, Love, Memories, Night, Paris, Passion, Past, Peregrination, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhetoric, Ribbons, Sarcasm, Savoury, Sepulcher, Shadows, Spice, Time, Truth, Web, Wit
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fièvre
“My love is as a fever, longing still.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2018.
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the dark attic of forgotten lives
“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”
~ James Joyce ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo of a painting by Brigida Böttcher on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Development, Digital Imagery, Ecstasy, Flowering, Growth, History, Life, Maturation, Memories, Obscurity, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Portraits, Time, Visages, Whisper
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stop to smell the roses
“And in the end, the love you take,
is equal to the love you make…”
~ Paul McCartney ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Clay, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, End, Fata Morgana, Form, Heart, Hours, Life, Love, Materialistic, Memories, Minutes, Mold, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pilfering, Poetry, Rapacious, Relax, Roses, Smell, Thief, Touch
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at last i am free
“There is a time for departure
even when there’s no certain place to go.”
~ Tennessee Williams ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Death, Digital Imagery, Dues, Emotions, Food, Free, Friendship, Give And Take, Happy, Heart, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Sing, Stages, Tarts, Wine, Women
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ces vieilles mains
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.
It was my other hand.”
~ William S. Burroughs ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Goodbyes, Grasp, Hands, Jungles, Kindness, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Palms, Passion, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Promise, Scarred, Thorns, Time, Worn, Wrinkles
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rainbows raining down
“Poetry is a phantom script telling how
rainbows are made and why they go away.”
~ Carl Sandburg ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Dust, Ears, Eyes, Fingers, Flowers, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Light, Memories, Music, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisons, Rainbows, Ribbons, Song, Sound, Spring, Time, Window
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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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