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Monthly Archives: November 2014

Ring-Necked Doves Gone Skating

30 Sunday Nov 2014

Posted by smilingtoad in Uncategorized

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A wee tale about two doves and two humans, by Sir Felion

to sire with love

Little OakSitting in the car after the October storm tears the sky, beads adorning the roof.

A tiny oak tree thrashing overhead, shedding leaves onto the roof.

Tiny scrabbly feet burst from above.

We slowly slide open the moon-roof cover.

Two ring-necked doves were jubilantly

Skating amongst the dewy drops.

They stared down into the darkened chamber below with deep orange eyes,

Like staring at caged apes at the Zoo.

After a few more pirouettes and twirls they fluted off and were gone.

Leaving the earth-bound humans behind.

Little Dovie

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“Nothing is Easier Than…”

13 Thursday Nov 2014

Posted by smilingtoad in Experimental, Photography, Quotations

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Abstract, Abstract Photography, Black and White, Crime, Dark, Experiemental, Literature Quotes, Odd, Pain, Photography, Quotes, Skull, Thoughts

Thinking's Shadow-2“Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea”
– Dylan Thomas

Empty Skull“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Loopy Night“I pulled out the letter. It was a receipt for putting my little dog to sleep. When I realized what they’d done, I think I screamed…I believe that this was the moment the world lost me, for pain quickly turned to fury.”
– Edward Bunker, Education of a Felon

Midnight Scroll“Winter was gray and mean upon the city and every night was a package of cold bleak hours, like the hours in a cell that had no door.”
– David Goodis, Of Tender Sin

Concentration“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
-Jorge Luis Borges

Adopted by a Swan…

12 Wednesday Nov 2014

Posted by smilingtoad in Humour, Photography, Stories

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Bird, Black and White, Florida, Fun, Humor, Nature, Photography, Portrait, Swan

Swannie05Sometimes, humans adopt animals from shelters. Sometimes these kindly benefactors are not satisfied with just the new speckled cat running the house, so they adopt a sparkling, new nonage human as well. And sometimes, humans get adopted by swans.

Naturally, I belong to the very last category…

“The World in All Its Tainted Glory”

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

Posted by smilingtoad in Photography, Quotations

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Abstract, Abstract Photography, Black and White, Grief, Hope, Literary Quotes, Nature, Photography, Quotes, Sadness, Swan, Water

Swannie“Everybody is supposed to be quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

If Only They Could See00“His dislike of mankind, of the mass of mankind, amounted almost to an illness.”
– D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

Sailing“I want to confess as best I can, but my heart is void. The void is a mirror. I see my face and feel loathing and horror. My indifference to man has shut me out. I live now in a world of ghosts, a prisoner in my dreams.”
– Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal

Park“I had a dream. I was walking a beautiful street. On one side were white buildings with columns. On the other side, a park. And under the trees along the street was a dark green band. Then I came to a high wall, covered completely by roses. A plane came and set fire to the roses. It was not such a bad thing, since it was so beautiful. I looked into the water. How the roses were burning.”
– Ingmar Bergman, Shame

Preening“It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
– Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

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