“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Posts Tagged With: Rot
empires
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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entombed
“Friends may come, friends may go, enemies are always faithful.”
~ Terrence Davies ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Entombed, Existence, Life, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rot, Shadows, Solution, Starve, Unhinged, Wall, Window
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blind eye
“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blind Eye, Dance, Darkness, Death, Debauched, Debilitates, Decay, Deflowered, Depraved, Deteriorates, Deviates, Devoured, Digital Imagery, Disregards, Dissipates, Dream, Dust, Eyes, Forgets, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rot, See, Song, Street Art
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ONE TWEET AT A TIME
“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities,
are incapable of self-government.”
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bent, Burning, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Hobbled, Insane, Isolation, Nation. World, Nightmares, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rot, Sculpture, Shadows, Silence, Sleep, Solitude, Streets, Tweet, Vaginas
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EMPIRES
“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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ENTOMBED
“Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.”
~ Jean de La Fontaine ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Metzingen-Glems, Germany in January 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Entombed, Existence, Life, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rot, Shadows, Solution, Starve, Unhinged, Wall, Window
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BLIND EYE
“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blind Eye, Dance, Darkness, Death, Debauched, Debilitates, Decay, Deflowered, Depraved, Deteriorates, Deviates, Devoured, Digital Imagery, Disregards, Dissipates, Dream, Dust, Eyes, Forgets, Life, Paris, Past, Photography, Rot, See, Song, Street Art
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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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