creation chimera

 

“Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.”

 

~ Kathleen Raine ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2013.

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A DIME A DOZEN

 

 

“…i have been dealing with these kinds

  of conversations for decades,

 only the names of the instruments

   have been changed to protect the innocent…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Café de Flore in Paris in July 2014.

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POÈTE MAUDIT

 

“What can an eternity of damnation matter

to someone who has felt, if only for a second,

the infinity of delight?”

 

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in February 2007.

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SPANISH JUNE

 

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

 

~ Traditional ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.

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CARNET EROTIC, PAGE ELEVEN

 

“The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of an actual page of Jean Cocteau’s Carnet Erotic, (page eleven), taken in Paris in June 2019.

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