STARING AT EMPTY PAGES

 

This was in September 1970…

and then, just six short years later, I was already

thinking back to those more innocent times…

and now today it is all so much more distant,

so very far away and yet still so very near…

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on Rivermont Avenue, Lynchburg, Virginia in September 2008.

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TROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL T

 

“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything,

you risk even more.”

 

~ Erica Jong ~

 

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original stock photo provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises November 2018.

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THE LONGEST DAY

 

“A life without love is like a year without summer.”

 

~ Swedish Proverb ~

 

Original photo of Stonehenge taken in June 1980.

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THE SUN IN A CAGE

 

“We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise

if we have waited in the darkness.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken by I. Fontaine in Orléans, France in March 2017. Used with permission.

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NEW SKINS FOR OLD

 

“de nouvelles peaux pour les vieux…”

 

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2017 by I. Fontaine, used with permission.

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MORNING MISTS

 

“A feeling of sadness and longing,

that is not akin to pain,

and resembles sorrow only

as the mist resembles the rain.”

 

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Glauberg, Germany in July 1986.

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TWO RED HAIKUS

 

“Aurora Musis amica…”
“Dawn is friend of the muses…”

 

Photo taken in December 2003 in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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