“If one has never known freedom,
it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one’s cell.”
~ Nenia Campbell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2014.
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Posts Tagged With: Religion
TRAPPED
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blind Belief, Digital Imagery, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Shadows, Sunlight, Trapped
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MIRACLE
“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,
but wise words endure.”
~ Edward Thorndike ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a wall advertisement taken in the Marais district of Paris in July 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belief, Comprehension, Digital Imagery, Electrochemical Signals, Form, Miracle, Myth, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Preservation, Religion, Substance, Superstition, Thoughts, Vision, Words, Writing
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NO ONE
“My body, my choice.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beliefs, Body, Choice, Digital Imagery, Feminism, Freedom, Government, Individual, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Rights, Values, Woman
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MONKEY MAN
“When fascism comes to America,
it will be wrapped in the flag
and carrying a cross.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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DARKNESS
“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”
~ Helen Keller ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2001.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Contemplation, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Friendship, Lamp, Life, Light, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Shadows, Wait
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STAYING AFLOAT
“The world is filled with fools,
but none of them considers himself one,
or tries not to be one.”
~ Baltasar Gracián ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afloat, Awareness, Blind Belief, Common Sense, Comprehension, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Emotions, Exist, Facts, Flail, Flotsam, Flounder, Fools, Humanity, Ignorance, Imagination, Intolerance, Life, Noses, Nyaffs, Perception, Perspective, Perspicacity, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Prejudice, Reason, Reflections, Religion, Sea, Think, Water
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THE SIN OF THE CALF
“The God excuse, the last refuge of a man
with no answers and no argument.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Bible Babblers, Binge, Blasphemy, Confused, Darkness, Dazed, Desert, Dick, Digital Imagery, Face, Finger, Golden Calf, Ignorance, Moses, Mountain, Pants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Stick
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NO GOD
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anarchy, Ashes, Autumn, Avenues, Barbarism, Breath, Burned, Cadavers, Capitalism, Cathedral, Choke, Civilization, Contorted, Culture, Darkness, Death, Decency, Digital Imagery, Eat, Enlightenment, Food, Fools, God, Heart, Humanity, Ignorance, Leaves, Life, Money, No Future, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rags, Religion, Rich, Rubble, Shadows, Streets, Twisted, Virus
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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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HATS OFF TO GOD
“Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear,
explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
~ Ambrose Bierce ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belligerent, Binders, Bullshit, Chosen People, Conflicts, Death, Digital Imagery, Free Thought, God, History, Holier Than Thou, Intelligence, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Problems, Religion, Undies
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BIRDCAGE
“I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength.”
~ Anaïs Nin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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ORIGINAL SIN
“Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.”
~ Hunter S. Thompson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Body, Culture, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Erotica, Evolution, Fulfillment, Heart, Intimacy, Life, Love, Mind, Needs, Original Sin, Overpopulation, Paris, Passion, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Procreation, Religion, Sex, Survival, Writing
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GOD TAKES A BREAK
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Eve, God, Heaven, Life, Original Sin, Paris, Past, Pearly Gates, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Salt, Sinners, Stress, Time, Whores
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WITHOUT A COUNTRY
“The evils of capitalism are as real
as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bibles, Capitalist Pigs, Constitution, Corporate Vermin, Country, Death, Democracy, Digital Imagery, Fascists, Finger, Fist, Freedom, Future, History, Law, Life, Mercy, No Quarter, Oppressors, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pigs, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Revolution, Revolutionary, Socialism
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DEATH AND COBWEBS
“When you bring the light into your dark house,
that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”
~ Rajneesh ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time, Truth
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AND THE DEAD LAUGH
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
~ Langston Hughes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the wall of the Cimetière du Père Lachaise that runs along the Rue du Repos taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afterlife, Barbed Wire, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Flesh, Graves, Imagination, Judgment, Laugh, Life, Oblivion, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Rot, Sleep, Spikes, Surprise, Time, Unconcerned, Undisturbed, Unperturbed
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LIONEL IN THE DAN’S DEN
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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BRICK BY BRICK
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Beams, Beauty, Brainlessness, Bricks, Certitude, Charlatans, Clowns, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Dunces, Environment, Half-Timbered, Insight, Intellect, Intelligence, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Logic, Music, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Science, Stupidity, Time, Truth, Wisdom
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LOVE YOUR WORLD
“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War
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THE LIGHT
“The trouble with people is not that they don’t know
but that they know so much that ain’t so.”
~ Josh Billings ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Angels, Belief, Birth, Black, Blasphemy, Blind Belief, Choirs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Life, Light, Nothingness, Past, Pearly Gates, Pets, Poetry, Relatives, Religion, Room, Saint Peter, Shadows, Teachings, Time, Tunnel
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