Posts Tagged With: Song

thistles and thorns

 

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;
and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.


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no one listening

 

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1980.


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between my thorns

 

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”

 

~ Marianne Moore ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2015.


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tapis

 

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

 

~ Theodore Roethke ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.


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pépier

 

“God loved the birds and invented trees.
Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

 

~ Jacques Deval ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.


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never enough time

 

“There is not enough time for anything, ever.”

 

~ Hilton Als ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.


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the drowning man

 

“Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.”

 

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.


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rhymes wrung

 

“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

 

~ Mark Twain ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in September 2017.


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draws the bow

 

“After silence, that which comes nearest
     to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

 

~ Aldous Huxley ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in October 2018.


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build a nest

 

“Look at this tangle of thorns.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2010.


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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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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2020.


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roses for milady

 

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

 

~ Edmond Jabes ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.


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blind eye

 

 

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.


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sing me a soft song of my childhood

 

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.


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trees talk

 

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a dendrochronological sample of a tree felled in the year 30 AD, taken in March 2018.


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rainbows raining down

 

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how
rainbows are made and why they go away.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.


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what tantalizing tapestry

 

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

 

~ Henry Miller ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.


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one evening’s moon

 

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2003.


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smile

 

“Everyone smiles in the same language.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Berlin in January 2018.


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SING

 

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,
it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

 

~ Janis Joplin ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2014. Courtesy of DePiero and Associates.


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