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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from the photos of two small surface fragments from Mars (left fragment) and the Moon (right fragment), thrown into space by the impact of meteors, taken in October 2016.

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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 ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken somewhere in west central France in 2006.

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BEWARE ULYSSES, BEWARE

 

“Is it the singer or the song…?”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Mediterranean between Crete and Santorini in October 1992.

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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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LYKE

 

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

 

~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ~

 

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DUST BY THE SHOVEL

 

“Sometimes she was fine when the moon would shine,

    unfortunately it was usually cloudy…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Gerhard Marcks’ sculpture Spielende Hengste  (Frolicking Stallions) (1962) taken in 1980..

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ONE MORNING’S MOON

 

“And he beholds the moon;

like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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THE SILENCE DESCENDS

 

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

 

~ Wassily Kandinsky ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 1982.

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FULL FAT MOON

 

“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.”

 

~ Frederic Lawrence Knowles ~

 

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BEDSIDE WIT

 

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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