“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”
~ Omar Khayyam ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.
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Posts Tagged With: Plague
WHEN THE SKIES WERE SUDDENLY SILENT
“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”
~ Robert Fripp ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in August 1989.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Airplane, Birds, Cacophony, Commerce, Digital Imagery, Leaves, Life, Lullabies, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Silence, Skies, Songs, Turbines, Wind
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LETTER
“I have made my bed in charnels and on coffins,
where black death keeps record of the trophies won.”
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
continued below
.Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a self portrait by Joanne drawn in June 1970.
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VIRUS
“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage
and unabashed in its cruelty.”
~ Aysha Taryam ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Poetry
Tags: Borders, Consequences, Contaminates, Cruelty, Cure, Death, Digital Imagery, Disease, Earth, Earth Day, Fate, Humanity, Infest, Innocent, Kill, Life, Mercy, No Quarter, Obscenity, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Planet, Poetry, Sickness, Unsuspecting, Vaccine, Virus
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PLAGUE DAYS
“We can’t stir a finger in this world
without the risk of bringing death to somebody.”
~ Albert Camus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bullets, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fuck, Future, Head, Life, Luck, Mean, Moon, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Shadows, Time, Unclean, Unseen
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BLACK DEATH
“All has been looted, betrayed, sold;
black death’s wing flashed ahead.”
~ Anna Akhmatova ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Black Death, Bodies, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Isolation, Life, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Protection, Shadows
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APOCALYPSO
“This is the way the world ends,
not with a bang, but a whimper.”
~ T. S. Eliot ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1999.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Amusement, Apocalypse, Bastard, Brutish, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evil, Future, God, Ignorant, Image, Merciless, Narrow Minded, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Predator, Prey, Religion, Sadistic, Selfish, Shadows, Sins, Spiteful, Stupidity, Suffering, Vicious Circle
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THE CURSE
“Respect your curses,
for they are the instruments of your destiny.”
~ Joseph Campbell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in May 2015.
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