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2013-06-18 17:00:18 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 50 +1s)

[the cage]

I came close
too close for words
too close to seeing
what sent her
off into the dark
I pulled at the cage
till dark drops of blood
ran down my arms
I pulled till I wept
till that moment 
when I ultimately knew
that what she feared
was me setting her free

#monochromeworld   #gothic   #blackandwhite  

2013-06-18 16:48:41 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 46 +1s)

[in the corners of my mind] - [back to black and white]

she appears to me
when I least expect it
at those moments 
when I feel certain
I'll never hear from her again

she lingers it seems
hidden in the last places
the places I missed 
when I swept out the dust
of her memory from my mind

#monochromeworld   #monochromephotography   #gothic   #blackandwhite  

2013-06-17 14:32:59 (8 comments, 4 reshares, 83 +1s)

[could this be the summer]

a question danced,
at the edge of a forest ...
where songbirds resting,
watched if but for a chance ...
to see what it might mean,
if the answer turned out - was yes

#monochromephotography   #poetry  

2013-06-17 05:47:14 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 104 +1s)

[for shoes monday] - [in suspense]

it was a matter,
of so many things at once -
that left them reeling ...
as they waited,
to see where she would go -
with legs like those ...

Summers longest days are approaching, and so for the #shoesmonday  immediately preceding the solstice.. this is my contribution to all the friendly and talented curators at Shoes Monday. So to: +Laura Harding +Olga Kafka +Mee Ming Wong +Shoes Monday +Terry Fabre +Erwin Vindl +Paul Wright +Thomas Andersen  thanks for making Mondays so much more fun. and summer. maybe a little hotter!

2013-06-16 11:31:03 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 78 +1s)

[edifice]

a broken sky
set its heart on mine
looking to make
a name for itself
through a violet gash
it channeled blue tears
and left me shaking
like an edifice that knows
it was never built
to weather such a storm

#poetry   #melancholy  

2013-06-15 20:30:29 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 58 +1s)

[the base] - [inspired by the song of the same name by paul banks]

What I draw today
could be recognized as shape

I spoke to the base
and the base says we wait
so I smoke an old cigar
while they're trying some things 

see I spoke to the base
and the base says we wait
the base says we're safe

now and then can I see the truth above the lies
now and then oh I feel you're truly anesthetized
that's why

When I walk today
it's in silence and in rage
can a man turn the page
while he's trying to amaze 
(any other)

so I hold my arms apart
and won't deny you anything
(any other)

see i spoke to the base
and the base says we're there
the base says we win

now and then I can see the truth above the lies
now and then ohI... more »

2013-06-15 15:48:44 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 60 +1s)

[the steps we took]

there comes a time
when those places we claimed
no longer feel like ours
when the steps we took
seem to be those  of strangers

there comes a  moment
when the people that we were
no longer really exist
as in the shadow of our choices
we had to become someone else

2013-06-15 01:28:27 (17 comments, 6 reshares, 116 +1s)

[in chapter and verse]

of all things I know
silence has proven most wise
for in my story
there is little worth retelling
for I reason that sorrow
does not grow more kind
when oft rehearsed 
in chapter and verse


#melancholy   #poetry  

2013-06-14 02:53:46 (6 comments, 2 reshares, 60 +1s)

[ladders, windows, and bones] - [inspired by Interpol's NYC]

most people look at a city
and see concrete -
and metal -
and doors -
but down these alleys
I find seeing,
ladders -
windows -
and bones ...
tells a completely
different story.

#monochromeworld   #blackandwhitephotography   #poetry   #interpol  

2013-06-13 12:30:18 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 98 +1s)

[twenty-four hours] - [a tribute to joy division]

So this is permanence, love's shattered pride. 
What once was innocence, turned on it's side. 
A cloud hangs over me, marks every move, 
Deep in the memory, of what once was love. 

Oh how I realised how I wanted time, 
Put into perspective, tried so hard to find, 
Just for one moment, thought I'd found my way. 
Destiny unfolded, I watched it slip away. 

Excessive flashpoints, beyond all reach, 
Solitary demands for all I'd like to keep. 
Let's take a ride out, see what we can find, 
A valueless collection of hopes and past desires. 

I never realised the lengths I'd have to go, 
All the darkest corners of a sense I didn't know. 
Just for one moment, I heard somebody call, 
Looked beyond the day in hand, there'snothing there ... more »

2013-06-12 09:48:39 (6 comments, 6 reshares, 78 +1s)

[to wish impossible things] - [ a tribute to the cure]

remember how it used to be
when the sun would fill up the sky
remember how we used to feel
those days would never end
those days would never end

remember how it used to be
when the stars would fill the sky
remember how we used to dream
those nights would never end
those nights would never end

it was the sweetness of your skin
it was the hope of all we might have been
that fills me with the hope to wish
impossible things

but now the sun shines cold
and all the sky is grey
the stars are dimmed by clouds and tears
and all i wish
is gone away
all i wish
is gone away

all i wish
is gone away

#monochromeworld   #blackandwhitephotography   #streetpics   #streetphotography   #breakfastclub   #thecure ... more »

2013-06-11 13:33:35 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 64 +1s)

[poems in the streets] - [number four] - [rain like steel]

on a night
not yet willing
to turn again
to the day
a steel rain
fell like bullets
and a city
never felt the same

#monochromephotography   #blackandwhitephotography   #poetry  

2013-06-11 13:33:59 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 41 +1s)

[poems in the streets] - [number three] - [starting early]

precocious no doubt
but I'd say from all indications, 
that this is one little girl - 
who is off to a flying start!

#monochromeworld   #blackandwhite   #streetphotography   #catchit   #poetry  

2013-06-11 13:35:14 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 70 +1s)

[poems in the streets] - [number two] - [it's been a while]

you see her,
whiles she's walking ...
and you notice,
her somber smile.

and while you,
don't know the story ...
you feel certain,
it's been a while.

yes it's been,
way too long ...
since the girl,
walked a happy mile.

#monochromemonday   #monochromeworld   #streetphotography   #poetry   #streetpoems     #catchshot  

2013-06-11 13:34:54 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 57 +1s)

[poems in the streets] - [ number one] - [ a series of modern decisions] 

out on a sunday -
walking the magnificent mile,
a modern girl walked on ...
confronted at every window -
by yet another series ...
of thoroughly -  modern decisions.

#monochromemonday   #monochromeworld   #streetphotography #chicago   #poetry   #streetpoems  

2013-06-10 12:07:54 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 71 +1s)

[for shoes monday] - [instant attention]

it might have been
only an occasion
for walking the dog
but wearing this pair
meant instant attention

For my group mates and most of all for our illustrious curators: +Laura Harding +Terry Fabre +Olga Kafka +Shoes Monday  +Mee Ming Wong +Erwin Vindl +Paul Wright +Thomas Andersen Happy Shoes Monday all!

#shoesmonday  

2013-06-09 15:04:24 (5 comments, 3 reshares, 72 +1s)

[instants of transition] - [number six] - [whispers of something warm]

the rain lost its vigor
and the streets grew less gray
and for those who were listening
they could hear the wind bemused
speaking in whispers of something warm

2013-06-09 13:42:55 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 54 +1s)

[instants of transition] - [number five] - [an instance of time] 

oftentimes I wonder
why how hard we wish for things
can't just undo the damage
and won't just wash away the pain
if we could only forget those things
that happened to darken our hearts
as only some other instance in time

#monochromeworld   #chicago   #time     #poetry  

2013-06-08 14:33:53 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 128 +1s)

[le roi d'un pays pluvieux] - [king of a rainy land]

 [poem by charles baudelaire]

Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux,
Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux,
Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes,
S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres bêtes.
Rien ne peut l'égayer, ni gibier, ni faucon,
Ni son peuple mourant en face du balcon.
Du bouffon favori la grotesque ballade
Ne distrait plus le front de ce cruel malade;
Son lit fleurdelisé se transforme en tombeau,
Et les dames d'atour, pour qui tout prince est beau,
Ne savent plus trouver d'impudique toilette
Pour tirer un souris de ce jeune squelette.
Le savant qui lui fait de l'or n'a jamais pu
De son être extirper l'élément corrompu,
Et dans ces bains de sang qui des Romains nousviennent,... more »

2013-06-08 08:48:15 (12 comments, 5 reshares, 93 +1s)

[from this tunnel]

for whatever the truth is
about where I've come from
it's not hard to recognize
the scars that mark the walls 
all along these streets of mine
here as I finally begin to emerge
from this long dark tunnel
where it seems that  I lost
all the sounds of love

#monochromephotography   #streetphotography   #poetry  

2013-06-07 20:52:32 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 50 +1s)

[putting back the flash] - [bucktown chicago]

a couple of ladders
and some poblanos for breakfast
enough to make quick work
of what needs to happen
to put the flash back
into their tacos, and into our weekends!

#monchromeworld   #streetphotography  

2013-06-06 16:59:23 (9 comments, 2 reshares, 75 +1s)

[in a tall city]

the pace of her days
and the crush of expectations
hurrying down the sidewalk
from a late arriving train
it would be all together too easy
for a girl to get lost in the city

#monochromeworld   #streetphotography  

2013-06-06 17:02:52 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 77 +1s)

[down their silver path]

with a quiet affinity
he found her a place
where even her whispers
could clearly be heard
as they walked on together
down their silver path

#silver   #forest   #poetry  

2013-06-05 12:32:54 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 88 +1s)

[june five] - [for wordless wednesday]

#wordlesswednesday   #wordlessonwednesday  

2013-06-04 19:18:56 (27 comments, 10 reshares, 156 +1s)

[nearer this circle in the wood]

come closer he bid her
nearer this circle in the wood
be not fearful of the ravens
and do not falter though you could
for I have long lived in shadows
and maybe longer than I should
maybe being king of the forest
is more solitary than it is good

2013-06-04 15:38:55 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 54 +1s)

[the warm sun is like]

the warm sun is like
a gentle well spoken spider
who unlike his cousins
who dwell only in the corners
comes happily out in daytime
to point out to passersby
the intricacy of its handiwork
in making a mystery of the sky

#monochromeworld   #streetphotography   #poetry  

2013-06-04 15:13:37 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 54 +1s)

[to see a ghost]

off in the shadows --
the creeping dark grays,
moved closer  to where he stood ...
silently - the way that wolves do ...
and it was the uneasiness in his soul,
that led him to stop abruptly --
to look back over his shoulder,
and wonder if he'd seen a ghost ...

#monochromeworld   #streetphotography   #streetpics  

2013-06-03 17:43:48 (16 comments, 3 reshares, 59 +1s)

[how far will we be able to see?]

in between time and intention,
opportunities arrive for the intrepid.
and while the ascent is ever steep,
the only question that really remains ...
is if we choose to climb together -
and walk out to the very edge ...
just how far will we be able to see?

#monochromemonday   #monochromeworld   #architecture  

2013-06-03 15:00:03 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 64 +1s)

[for shoes monday] - [for mr fosse]

"live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching" - [quote by bob fosse]

a little something special for #shoesmonday ! starring! +Laura Harding  +Terry Fabre +Olga Kafka +Mee Ming Wong +Shoes Monday +Erwin Vindl +Paul Wright +Thomas Andersen  this one is dedicated to all of you who help us to make the quote above a reality! 

+Monochrome World 

2013-06-03 01:31:57 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 54 +1s)

[what we look past so easily]

sometimes what defines us
isn't always the most obvious thing
it's the things we look past so easily
that reveal the best sides of ourselves

#monochromemonday   #monochromeworld  

2013-06-02 00:26:37 (9 comments, 5 reshares, 109 +1s)

[from on high] - [from the archives]

expanses of morning,
torches set to scatter the fog ...
whispers overheard as silver.
and a new day from on high ...

2013-06-01 08:36:13 (5 comments, 4 reshares, 70 +1s)

[of better summers lost]

and a silver wind sang
in registers of long departed months
its clouds concealing the tears
of all those better summers lost

and black waves danced
with the mummers for the solstice
till raindrops fell as prisms
to return softness to the night

#monochromeworld   #stormyweather  

2013-05-31 19:18:26 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 71 +1s)

[instants of transition] - [number four] - [another quiet girl]

on a day
when nothing eased the pain
I was taken
back down a familiar street
where another quiet girl
once sent me on my way
and in that single instant
I wondered at the fact
that at last it  finally seemed
that enough time has passed
so that I might just remember
the best of all those days

2013-05-31 18:04:21 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 77 +1s)

[instants of transition] - [number three] - [the waiting]

it wasn't the rain
it wasn't the shivers
of a collective memory
in the end what was hardest
was the sum of all those times
that someone else had told them
that the only choice they had - was to wait

2013-05-31 16:27:44 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 61 +1s)

[instants of transitions] - [number two] - [on a day like this one]

watching for opportunity
he fell to earth with the rain
born of and  built to weather
the storm that would be his life

2013-05-31 14:01:42 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 51 +1s)

[instants of transition] - [number one] - [things were changing]]

down a long quiet street
entered being sure of one thing
that things were changing

the first in a series of instant camera inspired images, bringing the context of more emotionally oriented images,  into the foreground  ---and placing the more technical aspects of photography to the back

2013-05-30 21:29:02 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 75 +1s)

[I dwell in possibility] - [emily dickinson]

2013-05-29 15:21:39 (13 comments, 6 reshares, 153 +1s)

[I can almost feel the sun]

there's a weight -
I've carried around so long,
it feels like my bones -
have been replaced by steel.
and it has turned -
all my streets to black.
and so I wish,
for the kindness of a heart...
and all because it seems -
that there still are days,
when I can almost feel the sun ...

#monochromeworld   #blackandwhitephotography   #poetry      #cityscape   

2013-05-29 00:01:51 (10 comments, 2 reshares, 81 +1s)

[between shadows and seconds]

and it was
as it had always been
that her happiness
was ever concealed
in that place where dreams
skip like the raindrops
between shadows and seconds

#monochromeworld   #streetphotography   #rainyday  

2013-05-28 10:21:51 (13 comments, 3 reshares, 101 +1s)

[and if the rain.]

should dawn find you
trembling a little too hard...
and if your spring coat -
lets in a little too much,
of what turns your heart cold ...
this is when I would ask -
to look inside and find  the strength,
to breathe and remember ...
that if the rain won't listen -
I'll hold you close to my chest ...
and sing to you until it stops.

#rainyday   #breakfastclub  

2013-05-27 20:14:33 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 75 +1s)

[joy on division street] - [en hommage to the wombats]

i'm back in liverpool,
and everything seems the same,
but i worked something out last night,
that changed this little boys brain,
a small piece of advice,
that took twenty-two years in the making,
i will break it for you now,
please learn from my mistakes,
please learn from my mistakes.

let's dance to joy division,
and celebrate the irony,
everything is going wrong,
but we're so happy,
let's dance to joy division,
and raise our glass to the ceiling,
'cos this could all go so wrong,
but we're so happy,
yeah we're so happy.

so if you're ever feeling down,
grab your purse and take a taxi,
to the darker side of town,
that's where we'll be,
and we will wait for you and lead you through... more »

2013-05-27 16:03:17 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 54 +1s)

[like that first summer]

on a sunday
there was time to be
friends like they'd always been
like they were that first summer
when they found it easy to smile
and the sun fell upon them with grace

#monochromemonday   #monochromephotography   #streetphotography   #streetpics  

2013-05-27 03:20:26 (15 comments, 2 reshares, 85 +1s)

As temperatures rise, so do my chances to contribute to shoes monday! so for everyone, especially our wonderful curators: +Laura Harding +Olga Kafka +Terry Fabre +Mee Ming Wong +Shoes Monday +Paul Wright +Erwin Vindl +Thomas Andersen 
I kept this one in color, just for you!

[meteorological summer] - [for shoes monday]

warmer temperatures,
and ever taller heels ...
and the forecast is for -
clearly ascending hemlines!

#shoesmonday  

2013-05-27 17:46:03 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 68 +1s)

[the fragile shapes]

pausing  from within a budding grove
she saw something that only she could
for where the world saw only the darkness
she knew better than they ever would
the fragile shapes that were his days

#monochromeworld   #blackandwhitephotography  

2013-05-25 21:05:10 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 44 +1s)

[tone shaping]

zip cars, zip ties -
open chords and tip jars ...
train tracks - this is street life

#monochromeworld   #streetphotography  

2013-05-24 22:53:01 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 66 +1s)

[to stand in the sun]

her heart was racing
chasing the shadow of a purpose
when suddenly she realized
that why she was running so fast
was that she saw a light up ahead
and a chance to stand in the sun

#streetphotography   #monochromeworld  

2013-05-23 20:00:49 (13 comments, 3 reshares, 67 +1s)

[I witnessed it pass]

it was on a sunday
that I witnessed it pass
like an eastern current
stripped of its sting
like a passing chill
that exited my skin

and it disappeared
in the sense of finding
that there are still
beings that can change
the world back again
into a beautiful place

2013-05-23 14:19:44 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 60 +1s)

[the way life feels]

there's a way life feels,
when your heart isn't counting time -
when it never occurs to your mind,
that there won't always be tomorrow ...
when walking together on a sunday,
means that there's nothing in the world -
that really matters to you - just as long as ...
you spent the day - knowing you're in love !!!

#monochromeworld   #streetphotography  

2013-05-22 15:09:58 (11 comments, 2 reshares, 62 +1s)

[in the windows]

on a sunday afternoon,
their thoughts were traveling ...
journeying towards a future -
built upon their dreams...
and while they were walking,
they didn't necessarily realize ...
that the magic was happening -
in the windows of their minds.

#monochromeworld   #streetphotography  

2013-05-22 04:25:04 (18 comments, 2 reshares, 97 +1s)

[played out in stripes]

stirred to begin anew.
by both surprise and delight -
the world came alive again ...
and it was a celebration -
that played out in stripes!