“It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence
which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”
~ Max Frisch ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Posts Tagged With: Promise
réflexions
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bucket, Death, Deception, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fish, Heaven, Life, Nothingness, Paris, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reflections, Religion, Reward, Time, Vision, Worm
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ready to embrace it
“Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes,
and pompous in the grave.”
~ Thomas Browne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Branches, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Flesh, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Resurrection, Season, Skeletons, Trees
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bandora’s pox
“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!
What a monster…what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”
~ Blaise Pascal ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Birds, Caskets, Confusion, Creativity, Death, Deathsong, Debate, Digital Imagery, Flame, Horizon, Illusion, Innuendo, Lanes, Life, Perspective, Persuasion, Photography, Pigskin, Poetry, Pox, Promise, Rhetoric, Seas, Songs, Water, Waves, Wood, Worm, Zodiac
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la muse
“Fool,” said my muse to me. “Look in thy heart and write.”
~ Philip Sidney ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Cocoon, Consciousness, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Love, Muse, Music, Night, Ouevres, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Shadows, Songs, Source, Thoughts, Wellspring, Words
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a drowning man
“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”
~ Franz Kafka ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Drowning, Life, Light, Man, Moonless, Mountain, Nights, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Promised Land, Shadows, Shore, Slow Motion, Starless, Valley, Waters
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ces vieilles mains
“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.
It was my other hand.”
~ William S. Burroughs ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Goodbyes, Grasp, Hands, Jungles, Kindness, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Palms, Passion, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Promise, Scarred, Thorns, Time, Worn, Wrinkles
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printemps
“She turned to the sunlight and shook her yellow head,
and whispered to her neighbor: “Winter is dead.”
~ A.A. Milne ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Colours, Digital Imagery, Flowers, Fragrance, Hibernation, Life, Lovers, Maytime, Moisture, Passions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Spring, Warmth
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lamp
“Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Roman lamp taken in 2004.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Fear, Fire, Flame, History, Lamp, Light, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Warmth
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moon over me
“There are nights when the wolves are silent
and only the moon howls.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beds, Betrays, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Emptiness, Face, Fat, Friend, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Mistakes, Moon, Night, Nothing, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Punctual, Room, Shadows, Sheets, Sincerity, Streets, Time, True, Window
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woman
“You had the power all along my dear.”
~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Acumen, Affection, Ardour, Beauty, Cold, Compassion, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Drab, Emotions, Empathetic, Equals, Fair, Future, Gray, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Intelligence, Intuition, Just, Life, Love, Men, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Sensitivity, Sex, Sexuality, Sin, Sincerity, Subjugation, Violence, Woman, Women
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STILL DELUDED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
“A rational army would run away.”
~ Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018 of street art by Kai.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Carrot And Stick, Death, Delusion, Digital Imagery, Future, History, Illusion, Life, Murder, Paris, Past, Peace, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Street Art, War
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THE PROMISE OF A BLOSSOM
“A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling.
Beneath the surface, lies terror.”
~ Thomas Pynchon ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blossom, Digital Imagery, Life, Lily Pad, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reality, Roots, Water Lily
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LEGACY
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
~ Nelson Henderson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Energy, Hope, Incentive, Kiss, Legacy, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plant, Poetry, Promise, Sun, Survival
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REDOLENCE
“Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now…”
~ Bob Dylan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dream, Embrace, Horizon, Love, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pillow, Poetry, Promise, Scent, Silent, Soft
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BLUE SILENCE
“To me, words are primarily things to do with your mouth.”
~ Robert Wyatt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the painting “Blue Pain” (2009) by M. Weller taken in May 2021.
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OBLIVION
“We are an episode between two oblivions.”
~ Thomas Nagel ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of just a few of the many boxes taken in May 2005.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Boxes, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Documents, Emotions, Energy, Forgotten, Grandparents, Hope, Indulgence, Life, Memories, Moments. Taste, Objects, Oblivion, Pages, Parents, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Time, Twilight, Young
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BANDORA’S POX
“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!
What a monster… what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”
~ Blaise Pascal ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Birds, Caskets, Confusion, Creativity, Death, Deathsong, Debate, Digital Imagery, Flame, Horizon, Illusion, Innuendo, Lanes, Life, Perspective, Persuasion, Photography, Pigskin, Poetry, Pox, Promise, Rhetoric, Seas, Songs, Water, Waves, Wood, Worm, Zodiac
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IN AN INSTANT
“The universe is bringing our dreams to life, but unfortunately,
it is also bringing our nightmares that little bit closer as well.”
~ Anthony T. Hincks ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Bone Dust, Charnel House, Circumstances, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hopes, Instant, Life, Norms, Nothingness, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potential, Promise, Roles, Sentience, Shadows, Smoke, Tinder
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WOMAN
“You had the power all along my dear.”
~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Acumen, Affection, Ardour, Beauty, Cold, Compassion, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Drab, Emotions, Empathetic, Equals, Fair, Future, Gray, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Intelligence, Intuition, Just, Life, Love, Men, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Sensitivity, Sex, Sexuality, Sin, Sincerity, Subjugation, Violence, Woman, Women
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MEDUSA
“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”
~ Mason Cooley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Hate, Head, Hiss, Lips, Medusa, Memories, Minacious, Mirror, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Satyr, Sensuality, Serpents, Sex, Shadows, Slobber, Smile, Snakes, Stone, Thigh, Vitriol
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