“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Posts Tagged With: Memories
halcyon
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth
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a gravity of language
“Words, too, have genuine substance –
mass and weight and specific gravity.”
~ Tim O’Brien ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Attraction, Centuries, Communication, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dust, Galaxies, Gravity, History, Imagination, Life, Literature, Magic, Memories, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Stars, Time, Time Machine, Words
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dead roses
“One man gathers what another man spills…”
~ Robert Hunter ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blind, Dead Roses, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Feelings, Life, Liturgy, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrances, Roses, Time
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an absence of luminosity
“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”
~ Louis Daguerre ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Ballerina, Bile, Blood, Blue, Canvas, Clouds, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Encore, Hi-Fi, Lilac, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pointed Shoes, Sketched, Smile, Soliloquy, Stereophonic, Storms, Tears, Thistles, Thorns
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réminiscences
“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”
~ Aldous Huxley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Existence, Feelings, Forgetfulness, Images, Impressions, Labyrinth, Lepidopterist, Mazes, Meaninglessness, Memories, Mind, Moments, Mosaic, Moths, Net, Oblivion, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Thoughts, Wings
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bagages
“Never be a prisoner of your past,
it was just a lesson, not a life sentence…”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bagages, Baggage, Childhood, Digital Imagery, Dirty Laundry, Emotions, Heart, Life, Love, Memories, Opportunity, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Relationships
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ombres et lumière
“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”
~ Rumi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 1981.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Corpse, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Mercy, Ombres et Lumière, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sepulchre, Shadows, Stolen, Throat, War
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the ghosts of things unremembered
“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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death and cobwebs
“When you bring the light into your dark house,
that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”
~ Rajneesh ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time
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laughs in your face
“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”
~ Jim Morrison
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.
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larmes de bleu
“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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creation chimera
“Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.”
~ Kathleen Raine ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Babble, Breathe, Brine, Digital Imagery, Inspiration, Life, Lips, Memories, Moments, Muse, New, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poet, Poetry
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empires
“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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towards the light
“For the unlearned, old age is winter;
for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”
~ Hasidic Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Age, Clouds, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Fate, Future, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Ironic, Life, Light, Memories, Old, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sagacity, Satisfaction, Sentience, Thirst, Time, Vision, Young, Youth
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tick tock
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
~ Hector Berlioz ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Clocks, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Salvador Dali, Tick Tock, Visions
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where the time goes
“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”
~ Henry Austin Dobson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Clay, Cosmos, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Experiences, Life, Maw, Memories, Mold, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Steps, Time, Winds
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the road
“The road never ends…only our vision does.”
~ Amit Reddy ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Cognizance, Comprehension, Digital Imagery, Dimensions, Dream, Experiences, Flagstones, Illusion, Life, Memories, Past, Perceptions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pompeii, Road, Slight Of Hand, Space, Time
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happy ending
“Words of snow, which fell last year.”
~ German Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Happy Ending, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Legacy, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Time
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le cadeau
“We are always the same age inside.”
~ Gertrude Stein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.
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even slower
“When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
~ Mark Twain ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Embers, Forgiveness, Golden Rule, Journey, Life, Low Life, Memories, Photography, Poetry, Slow Motion, Time, Troublemaker
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