tiptoe away

 

“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed,

we wear belief and custom.”

 

~ Cyril Connolly ~

 

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with a fork

 

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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vanishing footprints

 

“I dwell in a lonely house I know that vanished many a summer ago.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

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tree of life

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.

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CONTINUES TO CONFUSE

 

“Confusion will be my epitaph

as I crawl a cracked and broken path,

if we make it we can all sit back and laugh,

but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying…”

 

~ Peter Sinfield ~

 

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

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GOIN’ DOWN SLOW

 

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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CHILDHOOD’S END

 

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

 

~ Ken Hill ~

 

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MOONLOVER

 

“The moon is but a candle-glow that flickers thro’ the gloom…”

 

~ Vachel Lindsay ~

 

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WITH A FORK

 

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas.

I’m frightened of the old ones.”

 

~ John Cage ~

 

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

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TIPTOE AWAY

 

“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed,

we wear belief and custom.”

 

~ Cyril Connolly ~

 

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SOLARIZED

 

“I pressed her thigh and death smiled.”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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EVENING STAR

 

“Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;

we know not what we do,

and while we’re young we have the right

to live and love like gods.”

 

~ Ovid ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2007.

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TREE OF LIFE

 

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980, taken in January 2020.

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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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NIGHTS

 

“Cupid and Bacchus my saints are,

may drink and love still reign,

with wine I wash away my cares,

and then to cunt again.”

 

~ John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

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BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT BLOSSOM

 

“Lust will curdle like milk if you don’t keep using it up.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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MINUET TIME

 

“The only thing wrong with being an atheist

is that there’s nobody to talk to during an orgasm.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

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STILL LIFE

 

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

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LE CŒUR FRAGILE

 

“The heart was made to be broken.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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MELANCHOLIE

 

“I’d rather be unhappy and alone in Paris

than unhappy and alone here…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2017.

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