“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”
~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1971.
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Posts Tagged With: Truth
POTPOURRI
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Delusions, Digital Imagery, Grace, Illusions, Lines, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potpourri, Sails, Trails, Travails, Trials, Truth, Youth
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IN THIS TIME OF TOUCHING
“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.”
~ Plato ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Albert Bartholomé taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Creation, Digital Imagery, Essence, Eyes, Feelings, Images, Impressions, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Talk, Tongues, Touch, Truth, Words
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THE SANCTUARY OF THEIR BLINDNESS
“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,
but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
~ George Bernard Shaw ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Belief, Blindness, Captives, Digital Imagery, Faces, Hungry, Ignorance, Lies, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sanctuary, Short-Sighted, Small Talk, Smiles, Spoken, Teeth, Truth, Word
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WHAT WAS IT THEN
“I cannot sing the old songs,
or dream those dreams again.”
~ Charlotte Alington Barnard ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Certainties, Communicate, Decay, Digital Imagery, Give, Gray, Judge, Jury, Key, Lingered, Noon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Song, Time, Truth, Tune, Warmth
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CURTAINED WINDOW
“The curtains were made for moving
cause you know sometimes you’re not always there.”
~ John Frusciante ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aspirations, Curtains, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Fantasy, Future, Life, Now, Passions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Secrets, Truth, Window
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DEN OF THIEVES
“In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
~ Hunter S. Thompson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ballots, Charlatans, Citizens, Crimes, Death, Digital Imagery, Freedom Of Speech, Gassing, Indiscretions, Intimidating, Justice, Knaves, Le Rasoir National, Life, Lock Them Up, Paris, People, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Power, Protest, Thieves, Truth, Vote
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UNIVERSYMPHONY
“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra.”
~ Andre Breton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of The Colours and Voices Orchestra taken in November 2019. Photo courtesy Flora Flowerchild.
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IN HER I HAD EVERYTHING
“A thought that sometimes makes me hazy:
Am I – or are the others crazy?”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the mineral Sepiolite taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Attempts, Backs, Balling, Bed, Blue, Brambles, Bread, Breasts, Butter, Clocks, Clutter, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Grumbles, Guests, Imagination, Lies, Life, Lifetimes, Lips, Love, Morning, Pandora's Box, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preambles, Science, Semblance, Socks, Spikes, Tacks, Tests, Truth, Trysts, Tumbles
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BACKBONE BATTLEMENTS
“The blues ain’t nothing but a good man feelin’ bad.”
~ Leon Redbone ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Jeff Aerosol taken in Paris in August 2015.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Backbone, Banners, Bar, Battlements, Blinds, Bookshelf, Boots, Digital Imagery, Elixir, Emptiness, Eyes, Gypsy, Juice, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ravines, Room, Screws, Secrets, Shoe Polish, Songs, Spoonfuls, Street Art, Truth, Wind
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THE DOUBT REMAINS
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art called “Poussiere De Tess – Batiment” taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Certainty, Digital Imagery, Doubt, Dream, Future, Imagined, Lies, Memory, Muddle, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Real, Truth, Uncertainty
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TRUTH
” ‘Tis strange – but true;
for truth is always strange;
stranger than fiction…”
~ Lord Byron ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of an etching made from a painting by G. Sanders, done in 1807, taken from the The Poetical Works Of Lord Byron published by J. & J. L. Gihon, Philadelphia 1852. From the author’s personal collection.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Fiction, Lord Byron, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prediction, Stranger, Truth
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THE HEART TORN OUT
“There is a wisdom of the head, and…a wisdom of the heart.”
~ Charles Dickens ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bleed, Breath, Cloud, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hands, Heart, Kisses, Life, Lines, Love, Lunacy, Need, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Price, Renaissance Man, Sappho, Shivering, Silence, Soul, Stars, Tallow, Tongue, Touch, Trust, Truth
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RAVEN BLACK
“You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.”
~ Joshua Winning ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absinthe, Belittle, Black, Compensate, Cure, Darkness, Destroy, Digital Imagery, Disease, Emotions, Fantasies, Feckless, Forgiveness, Hate, Heart, Hostility, Hurt, Kindness, Lash, Pain, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Raven, Revenge, Strike, Torment, Truth, Understanding, Vitriol, Wrongs
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GROW WINGS
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
~ Frida Kahlo ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Conviction, Darkness, Difficult, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hatred, Imagination, Life, Light, Long, Love, Mistrust, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Treacherous, Truth, Wings
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OTHER WORLDS
“There are times when we stop, we sit still.
We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”
~ James Carroll ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belief, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fantasy, Fight, Future, History, Imagination, Lies, Memories, Normal, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Revolution, Time, Tomorrow, Truth, Twisted, Warped, Worlds
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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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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ancient, Beauty, Calm, Caress, Certainty, Child, Confidants, Conspirators, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fabric, Fantasy, Fires, Friends, Gnarled, Heart, Imagination, Life, Magic, Mentors, Mind, Muses, Passion, Past, Pataphysical, Patience, Philosophers, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Thought, Tide, Time, Touch, Trees, Truth, Weaving, Wisdom, Wise, Woods
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A DEAD ROSE
“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
old Time is still a-flying:
and this same flower that smiles to-day,
to-morrow will be dying.”
~ Robert Herrick ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in November 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belief, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Favour, Forgiveness, Friendship, Hate, Kindness, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resentment, Rose, Shadows, Time, Truth
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SPICE
“Words are like spices.
Too many is worse than too few.”
~ Joan Aiken ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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HALCYON
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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AMOUREUX
“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.”
~ Benjamin Whichcote ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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