dreams fading

 

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who

can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees

the dawn before the rest of the world.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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PHASES AND SHADOWS

 

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

 

~ John Greaves ~

 

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THE DECEMBER DREAM

 

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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LUNACY

 

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

 

~ Adelaide Crapsey ~

 

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MOONCHILD

 

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

 

~ A.J. Lawless ~

 

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YAWNS BACK AT ME IN YELLOW

 

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”

 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

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THE MOON STARES DOWN

 

“Before the winter fire,

I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

 

~ Sandy Denny ~

 

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RIEN

 

“No one here gets out alive.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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HER BRIGHT EMBRACE

 

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

 

~ Karl Marx ~

 

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THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T

 

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

 

~ Hesiod ~

 

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NO REGRETS

 

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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STARDUST

 

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on 

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

 

~ Laini Taylor ~

 

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MOON SHINES DOWN

 

“Pain is universal, even the stars weep…”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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PATIENTLY WAITING

 

“Patience is a virtue…and a curse…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken with a 110 format Pentax SLR camera in Bristol, England in July 1980.

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BICYCLE

 

“The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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TERPSICHORE

 

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

 

~ Corinna ~

 

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MOON WHISPERS

 

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver.

Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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BEWARE ULYSSES, BEWARE

 

“Is it the singer or the song…?”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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MOULDY MOON

 

“How slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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SERIOUS MOONLIGHT

 

“Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight…”

 

~ David Bowie ~

 

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