“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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Posts Tagged With: Promise
LEGACY
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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MOON OVER ME
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,
and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original 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, Mistake, Moon, Night, Nothing, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Punctual, Room, Shadows, Sheets, Sincerity, Streets, Time, True, Window
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SACRIFICED
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw
on a bank where they have no account.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from three original photos taken between May and July 1987.
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THE KEY TO MY HEART
“The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.”
~ Sarah Dessen ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Difference, Digital Imagery, Forget, Heart, Hope, Key, Life, Love, Paris, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Remember, Time, Vanish
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WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
“But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm,
a dancer’s leap in the air quite as high
as one has been expecting.”
~ Marcel Proust ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Circumstance, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Eyes, Face, Forests, Forgiving, France, Heart, Hills, Hint, Hotels, Life, Longing, Love, Meadows, Memory, Musician, Passion, Pespect, Photography, Poetry, Praise, Promise, Provinces, Rehearsals, Venues, Wonder, Woods
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REFLECTIONS BLENDING
“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
~ Elias Canetti ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hallucinations, Hazards, Inspiration, Life, Memories, Murdered, Muse, Nightmares, Obstacles, Paris, Party, Passion, Past, Phantasms, Photography, Phrases, Poetry, Promise, Purgatory, Time, Visions
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HOW MANY HANDS
“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
~ Charles Spurgeon ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ardour, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, Doorknob, Emotions, Forbearance, Grace, Hands, Heart, Hope, Key, Life, Love, Memories, Old, Paris, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Promise, Sensuous, Shadows, Sin, Tattered, Time, Torn, Understanding, Weathered, Worn
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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 an original 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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INFORMAL ATTIRE
“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
~ Samuel Beckett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Desire, Digital Imagery, Empty, Informal Attire, Libido, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Promise
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FOOL’S GOLD
“…the number of children and adults tortured
in the name of mainstream religious
and racial orthodoxy outweighs any others.”
~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bamboozle, Blind, Blind Belief, Bluff, Brainwash, Bullshit, Charlatans, Clueless, Con Men, Death, Deity, Digital Imagery, Divinity, Fool's Gold, God, Ignorance, Life, Minions, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Religion, Sheep, Shyster
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WINTERTIDE SOLSTICE
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
~ Hal Borland ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in December 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Full Moon, Horizon, Night, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Seasons, Shadows, Skies, Solstice, Spring, Time, Winter, Wintertide, Words
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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 an original 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, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Shadows, Songs, Source, Thoughts, Wellspring, Words
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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 an original photo of street art by Kai taken in Paris in May 2018.
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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, Politics, Promise, Street Art, War
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