singer of silloliquies

 

“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.”

 

~ John Coltrane ~

 

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flounder flat

 

“Words may be false and full of art;

Sighs are the natural language of the heart.”

 

~ Thomas Shadwell  ~

 

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in those moments

 

“It’s one thing to fall in love.

It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you,

and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”

 

~ David Levithan ~

 

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o how he hungered

 

“I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.”

 

~ Sylvia Plath ~

 

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mouldy moon

 

“How slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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larmes de bleu

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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rum sweet nipples

 

“I have put my talent into writing,

my genius I have saved for living.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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fantômes

 

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

 

~ John Malkovich ~

 

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this, that and the other

 

“At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”

 

~ Plato ~

 

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CRÉER C’EST SE SOUVENIR

 

“Créer c’est se souvenir…”

“To create is to remember…”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo street art taken in the Place des Vosges in Paris in May 2016.

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DARK COME THE DAYS

 

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

 

~ Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas ~

 

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LARMES DE BLEU

 

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

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THE SAME

 

“Don’t we all look up at the same stars?”

 

~ A.D. Posey ~

 

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THE SKIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS

 

“Close your eyes and see the beauty.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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AS ANOTHER DAY DAWNS

 

“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”

 

~ Alice Liddell ~

 

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WASTED OPPORTUNITY

 

“…people choose to live in darkness, praying for a candle,

when all they really have to do is open their eyes…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a skull from a burial dated to the Late Roman Empire (3rd century CE) taken in June 2014.

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HOT SCALES SLITHER

 

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

 

~ Anne Carson ~

 

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ARIADNE’S THREAD

 

“A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne…”

 

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the woods near Messel, Germany in October 2015.

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THIS ONE SIDE OF SLUMBER

 

“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

 

~ Friedrich Schiller ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in March 2021.

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MOULDY MOON

 

“How slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires…”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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