“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague.
Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”
~ Aldous Huxley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 2001.
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Posts Tagged With: Past
THIS YEAR OF PLAGUE
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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GOLDEN FLEECE
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
~ Anne Sexton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alleys, Blood, Creature, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Golden Fleece, Hours, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, No Quarter, Paralyzed, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, Rain, Search, Shadows, Streets, Vomit
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UP TO OUR ASHES
“Love. Of course, love.
Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”
~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.
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ALWAYS BAREFOOT IN THE BRAMBLES
“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.
And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”
~ Philippe Forest ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1988.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adjectives, Adverbs, Automatic, Barefoot, Beauty, Brambles, Cheshire Cat, Conjunctions, Creativity, Curves, Digital Imagery, Dreamtime, Emotions, Energy, Erratic, Fences, Heart, Imagination, Life, Love, Memories, Mouth, Neuron, Nouns, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prepositions, Pulses, Signals, Static, Taste, Thorns, Time, Verbs, Wine, Words
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THE DANCES I NEVER DANCED
“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”
~ James Richardson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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THE SECRET OF THE PARADOX
“Ah, but I was so much younger then…”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Arms, Died, Digital Imagery, Direction, Emotions, Eyes, Feast, Frames, Hungry, Inspiration, Life, Love, Memories, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Poetry, Secret, Sighs, Street Art, Time, Woman, Young
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NO REHEARSAL
“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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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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