la muse

 

“Fool,” said my muse to me. “Look in thy heart and write.”

 

~ Philip Sidney ~

 

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two candles burning

 

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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mosaic

 

“We are mosaics – pieces of light, love, history,

stars glued together with magic and music and words.”

 

~ Anita Krishan ~

 

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THE SAME

 

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

 

~ A.D. Posey ~

 

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

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TALK TALK

 

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

 

~ James Lendall Basford ~

 

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THE PERFECT CRIME

 

“The heart was made to be broken.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris in May 2016.

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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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ELECTRIC ECLECTIC

 

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

 

~ Samuel Beckett ~

 

Digitally enhanced solarized image created from a photo taken in April 2021.

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A SMILE

“Look back, and smile on perils past.”

~ Walter Scott ~

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IF ONLY FOR A MOMENT

 

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

 

~ Sydney J. Harris ~

 

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MY TURN TO BE FORGOTTEN

 

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

 

~ Joni Mitchell ~

 

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

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JUST A TRICKLE

 

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

 

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1989.

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THE DAY AFTER

 

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

 

~ Dejan Stojanovic ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of mold on a wall taken in Paris in May 2018.

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SPANISH JUNE

 

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

 

~ Traditional ~

 

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

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BOVINE SIGHS

 

“Cows are gentle, interesting animals.”

 

~ Ingrid Newkirk ~

 

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LOST IN THOUGHT

 

“Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.”

 

~ Sanober Khan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture by Claude Morin, “L’equilibre” taken in Paris in May 2019.

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VERSE TOUJOURS

 

“Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.”

 

~ Lucille Clifton ~

 

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ELLE DANSE AVEC DES MOTS

 

“I will have my serpent’s tongue –

my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice.

I will overcome the tradition of silence.”

 

~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa ~

 

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LIKE MAKING LOVE

 

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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THE SAME

 

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

 

~ A.D. Posey ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.

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