Posts Tagged With: Wine

a colour of dust

 

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,
sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

 

~ Omar Khayyam ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.


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swansong

 

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow
of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.


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scripture

 

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.
    Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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


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the glass hungered for the wine

 

“SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate
after he has eaten its contents, madam.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

000 the glass hungered for the wine

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


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long shadows

 

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

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


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summer solstice

 

“But thy eternal Summer shall not fade.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a cropped photo taken at Stonehenge in England as the sun rose over the Heel Stone on the morning of June 21st 1983.


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nevereveragainland

 

“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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


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en vin est vérité

 

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

 

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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


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at last i am free

 

“There is a time for departure
even when there’s no certain place to go.”

 

~ Tennessee Williams ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 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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impressions

 

“Everything that we experience every day
leaves a long-lasting impression.”

 

~ Pharrell Williams ~

 

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


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a colour of dust

 

“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”

 

~ Omar Khayyam ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.


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EN VIN EST VÉRITÉ

 

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

 

~Gustave Flaubert ~

 

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


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FLOAT AND FLOW

 

“To create is divine, to reproduce is human.”

 

~ Man Ray ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Man Ray’s “Cadeau” (Edition 1974 number 1214 / 5000) taken in October 2019.


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SWANSONG

 

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow
of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

 

~ James Joyce ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.


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A DIME A DOZEN

 

 

“…i have been dealing with these kinds
  of conversations for decades,
 only the names of the instruments
   have been changed to protect the innocent…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Café de Flore in Paris in July 2014.


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WITH CLASS

 

“Few love to hear the sins they love to act.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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


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THE EPITOME OF SIN

 

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner
is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting, taken in Paris, date unknown.


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A BED FULL OF FINE

 

“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”

 

~ Voltaire

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of The Birdhouse taken in October 2008.


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LATENIGHT LITANY

 

“Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

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


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