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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FROM THE STARS STRUNG

 

“Age does not protect you from love.

But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

 

~ Anaïs Nin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1985.

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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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SAILOR

 

“We sailed for parts unknown to man,

where ships come home to die…”

 

~ Keith Reid ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2017.

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THE DECEMBER DREAM

 

“In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret,

an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.”

 

~ Diego Marchi ~

 

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in October 2017, provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises. Used with permission.

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FOUR FRAGMENTS

 

“A man is a very small thing,

and the night is very large and full of wonders.”

 

~ Edward Plunkett ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Glücksburg, Germany on the Baltic Sea in Summer 1984.

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HEART SAILS AWAY

 

“The heart of man is very much like the sea,

it has its storms, it has its tides

and in its depths it has its pearls too.”

 

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

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LE PETIT POISSON

 

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2018.

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MY FATHER’S ASHES

 

“We are in the black theater of nonexistence.

In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze,

for the vast drama of ourselves.”

 

~ Herman Wouk ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Virginia Beach, Virginia in November 2010.

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ENTREPÔT

 

“Not so much two ships passing in the night

as two ships sailing together for a time

but always bound for different ports.”

 

~ P. D. James ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a pocket camera photo taken in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland in August 1975.

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MIGHT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE

 

“When the last tree is cut,

the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted;

when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

 

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

1972

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Gomera in November 1991.

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