“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague.
Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”
~ Aldous Huxley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 2001.
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Posts Tagged With: Memories
THIS YEAR OF PLAGUE
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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MY TURN TO BE FORGOTTEN
“Don’t it always seem to go
that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”
~ Joni Mitchell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2020.
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GOLDEN FLEECE
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
~ Anne Sexton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alleys, Blood, Creature, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Golden Fleece, Hours, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, No Quarter, Paralyzed, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, Rain, Search, Shadows, Streets, Vomit
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ALWAYS BAREFOOT IN THE BRAMBLES
“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.
And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”
~ Philippe Forest ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1988.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adjectives, Adverbs, Automatic, Barefoot, Beauty, Brambles, Cheshire Cat, Conjunctions, Creativity, Curves, Digital Imagery, Dreamtime, Emotions, Energy, Erratic, Fences, Heart, Imagination, Life, Love, Memories, Mouth, Neuron, Nouns, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prepositions, Pulses, Signals, Static, Taste, Thorns, Time, Verbs, Wine, Words
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THE DANCES I NEVER DANCED
“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”
~ James Richardson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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IN SEPARATE ROOMS FOR YEARS
“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”
~ Michel de Montaigne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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THE SECRET OF THE PARADOX
“Ah, but I was so much younger then…”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Arms, Died, Digital Imagery, Direction, Emotions, Eyes, Feast, Frames, Hungry, Inspiration, Life, Love, Memories, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Poetry, Secret, Sighs, Street Art, Time, Woman, Young
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
~ Miguel De Cervantes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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AFTERLIFE
“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.
But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.
We are programmed to betray.”
~ Michael Ignatieff ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an archaeological find material storage depot taken in the early 1990’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afterlife, Archaeology, Bones, Cartons, Catalogued, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eternity, Graves, Heaven, Hell, History, Illustrated, Life, Measured, Memories, Numbered, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resurrection, Reward, Shelves, Skeletons, Storeroom, Studied, Time
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STRANGE HOW WE MET
“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
~ Anthony Burgess ~
Digitally enhanced image created in August 2020 from two scans of a signed Penguin edition of A Clockwork Orange. From the author’s personal collection.
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