“Most plants taste better when they’ve had to suffer a little.”
~ Diana Kennedy ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.
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Posts Tagged With: Pain
NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN
“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”
~ George Eliot ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Atoms, Beauty, Comedy, Dead End Street, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Energy, Horror, Life, Mayfly, Nightmares, No Deposit, No Return, Oblivion, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Sensuousness, Thread, Tragedy
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PLEUVOIR
“And then we talked of the rain, always back to the rain…”
~ Lou Reed ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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SCHADENFREUDE
“Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.”
~ George Orwell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Benightedness, Blindness, Denial, Digital Imagery, Egotistical, Embellishment, Fact, Fiction, Forgotten, History, Ignored, Insensitivity, Lessons, Opportunities, Pain, Pathological, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Schadenfreude, Shards, Suffering
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SO MUCH PAIN
“Love, like most things in life, has its light and its dark side.
It is seldom a straightforward simple undertaking.
This paradoxical two-sidedness is a fundamental aspect,
an observable premise in all that exists in the universe.
Think of matter and energy. Good and evil. To be or not to be.
Misunderstanding this basic concept is what it means to be human…”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 1986.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cry, Digital Imagery, Half Moon, Hours, Love, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Sleepless
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THE OIL OF YOU
“And ever has it been known that love knows not
its own depth until the hour of separation.”
~ Khalil Gibran ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Vénus Sortant Du Bain by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bond, Boundaries, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dreams, Fences, Fingers, Love, Morning, Oil, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ring, Scent, Stars, Touch, Trespassers, Winter, Words
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THE SAME OLD STORY
“Ah, lord, it’s just the same old story,
something about love for glory…”
~ Tim Buckley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afternoons, Digital Imagery, Evenings, Glistens, Glory, Life, Love, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Story, Street Art, Suffer, Terpsichore, Thistles, Transitions, Trauma
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DARK CORNERS
“The bright dawn flooded the room,
and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners,
where they lay shuddering.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2020.
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IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
~ Sydney J. Harris ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Happiness, Heart, Leaves, Moment, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sunshine, Thoughts, Trees
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LONG SHADOWS
“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”
~ Terry Pratchett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2020.
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RAVEN BLACK
“You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.”
~ Joshua Winning ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absinthe, Belittle, Black, Compensate, Cure, Darkness, Destroy, Digital Imagery, Disease, Emotions, Fantasies, Feckless, Forgiveness, Hate, Heart, Hostility, Hurt, Kindness, Lash, Pain, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Raven, Revenge, Strike, Torment, Truth, Understanding, Vitriol, Wrongs
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THIS TOO SHALL PASS
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2014.
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THERE WAS ALWAYS THE LEARNING
“Man…is above all the plaything of his memory.”
~ Andre Breton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken by an unknown photographer in early 1972.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bitterness, Chance Encounter, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Energy, Experience, Flings, Flirts, Heart, Hurt, Imagination, Infatuations, Intimacy, Joy, Learning, Life, Love, Lovers, Memories, Pain, Passion, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Relationships, Sex, Shadows, Time
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MOON OVER ME
“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 ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beds, Betrays, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Emptiness, Face, Fat, Friend, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Mistake, Moon, Night, Nothing, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Punctual, Room, Shadows, Sheets, Sincerity, Streets, Time, True, Window
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SACRIFICED
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw
on a bank where they have no account.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from three original photos taken between May and July 1987.
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MEDARD AT MIDNIGHT
“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –
but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blood, Chest, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Erotica, Eyes, Fangs, Flesh, Heart, Life, Lips, Love, Lust, Memories, Midnight, Mouth, Night, Nightmare, Pain, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Screams, Shadows, Sweat, Teeth, Throat
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POPPY CROTCH
“How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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THE LIBATION
“A gender-equal society would be one where
the word ‘gender’ does not exist:
where everyone can be themselves.”
~ Gloria Steinem ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Artist, Beauty, Chains, Creativity, Cup, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Female, History, Imagination, Libation, Life, Male, Pain, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Prejudice, Society, Status Quo, Subjugation, Subservience, Wine
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LE POIDS
“The burden of the incommunicable.”
~ Thomas de Quincey ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture (detail) by Antoine Bourdelle taken in Paris in June 2019.
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SANDS OF TIME
“The sands of time are quicksands…
so much can sink into them without a trace.”
~ Margaret Atwood ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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