Posts Tagged With: Plague

a colour of dust

 

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,
sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

 

~ Omar Khayyam ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.


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virus

 

“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage
   and unabashed in its cruelty.”

 

~ Aysha Taryam ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.


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apocalypso

 

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”

 

~ T. S. Eliot ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1999.


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a colour of dust

 

“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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WHEN THE SKIES WERE SUDDENLY SILENT

 
“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”

 

~ Robert Fripp ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in August 1989.


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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 ~

 

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.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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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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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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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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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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