“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of my lovely Ladies taken sometime around 1991.
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Posts Tagged With: Past
NO REHEARSAL
LORELEI’S GHOST
“Beneath me flows the Rhine,
and, like the stream of Time,
it flows amid the ruins of the Past.”
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Rhine taken in February 2016.
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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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ON THE MENU HERE
“I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.”
~ Elaine Dundy ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a pocket camera photo taken near Agia-Anna, Naxos, Greece in August 1979.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Buy, Digital Imagery, Disnterest, Experience, Eyes, Flies, Honey, Lies, Life, Love, Menu, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sell, Shelf Life, Toast
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GRAY
“A gray day provides the best light.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Autumn, Breezes, Colour, Darkness, Days, Digital Imagery, Gradients, Gravestone, Gray, Landscapes, Life, Mountains, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shadows, Summer, Time, Vistas, Wind, Windows
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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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THE FIRST ACT IN THE TRAGEDY OF TOUCH
“Touch has a memory.”
~ John Keats ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a restored Roman mosaic taken in June 2004.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bubbles, Country Bumpkins, Death, Digital Imagery, Distance, Emotions, First Act, Kings, Life, Love, Lyre, Madness, Magic, Moments, Music, Notes, Offender, Orpheus, Past, Perspective, Photography, Play, Poetry, Pretender, Queens, Role, Tears, Touch, Tragedy, Troubles, University, Weeping
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FROM THE ASHES
“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”
~ Octavia Butler ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Ashes, Atmosphere, Bleeding, Cerebral, Credentials, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Embers, Feathered, Feces, Fire, Flashes, Impressed, Life, Lightning, Night, Past, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Ribbons, Sashes, Smoked, Smouldered, Stars, Sun, Unblest, Undressed, Wings
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A LOOSE DISGUISE
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
~ Cesare Pavese ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Back Bay, Virginia in June 1977.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bones, Digital Imagery, Disguise, Forever, Heartbeat, Life, Lost, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pulse, Skeleton, Skin, Time, Veil
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THE PRICE PAID
“Every luxury must be paid for,
and everything is a luxury,
starting with being in this world.”
~ Cesare Pavese ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blue, Brown, Coffee Grounds, Digital Imagery, Freedom, Knees, Morning, Music, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Price, Reality, Room, Sleep, Steam, Streets, Treaties, Warm
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