Happy New Year! Weekend Reflections #222

 ~ love & kisses ~  :)

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There Is Only Silence

Sweet And Heady

Lilac wine is sweet and heady, where's my love?
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, where's my love?
Listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear?

A Bottle Of Memory

 

in pale moonlight

far away city

the scent of your black robe

This Quiet Place In My Heart

mornings, evenings, days that hurried past
dreams that should have lasted
moments, hours
slipping by as we
told each other secrets
somehow I'll never let go of the memories
something always seems to remind me
of how it was, of what it was
when it was, all there was
laughter, love songs, footsteps that I hear
make me think you're near me
poems, pictures, letters never mailed
boats that never sailed
remember that even though we can't be together
we're more for having loved one another
we shared the sky, we learned to fly
someday when someone else's arms are around us
when time has put some distance between us
the years will kindly show
how memories come and go
they ebb and flow like the tides
there are quiet places in my heart
ever since we've parted
gentle, tender
traces of a song
places that belong to you 

 

Women Bookstore

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Smile

Smile, the prettiest make-ups to wear  :)

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Card Game

What fascinates me in the card game, is not the figures, 

but those little people traveling around our hands.  :)

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Love In Exile

Wine cannot be known by its smell is unreliable.

Love have a shared smell: the smell of longing for something else; 

a smell that remembers another smell...

a panting, nostalgic smell that guides you, 

like a worn tourist map, to the smell of the original place.

A smell is a memory, takes you into the realms of what is lost.

Crossing

crossing is the poet's journey 

through a poem

a journey within a journey

A Shape Of Light

I enter from its stone arch

like a wave enters eternity.

I cross dreams as if I were crossing rooms

I see in myself the mystery of intimate time:

a shape of light

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Dancer

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After Rain

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Entering Into Great Silence

Therefore, I will allure her, 
bring her into the wilderness; 
and speak tenderly to her.

/ Hosea 2:14 /

Basilica of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen

The Valle de los Caídos "Valley of the Fallen" is a Catholic basilica and a monumental memorial in the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, near Madrid, conceived by Spanish general Francisco Franco to honor and bury those who fell during the Spanish Civil War.

In 1960, Pope John XXIII declared the underground crypt a basilica. The dimensions of this underground basilica, as excavated, are larger than those of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. 

The visit to the Valley of the Fallen, including Basilica and Benedictine Abbey, was an unexpected precious memory.  

Sometimes, Life rewarded us with beautiful dreams of love...

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 Basílica de la Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos, España

The Most West Corner Of Europe ~ In Portugal

 Aqui, onde a terra se acaba e o mar começa...

Here, where the land ends and the sea begins...

       / Luís de Camões, Os Lusíadas /

The Cabo da Roca lighthouse, overlooking the promontory towards the Atlantic Ocean.

 Belita and I arrived at the most west point of Europe around sunset time, 
it was breathtakingly beautiful...  

 Monument declaring Cabo da Roca as the westernmost extent of continental Europe.

Cabo da Roca, Portugal

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A Village Life II

If you ask me about the power of poetry, I say:  

silence is not as fragile as we might perceive.

it never fades, 

since it hides its modest shadow in the earth's secret.

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Pottery

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Simple Pleasure III

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Cloister of Silence

in the cloister of silence

shadows repose

 medieval monks chanting

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photo taken at Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal

 

Escape

~ the colors of Aegean Sea ~

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New York Commercial

Commercial signs found at Fordham subway station, New York.

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Humble Blue

 Blessed are they who see beauty in humble things which other people see nothing.

/ Camille Pissarro /

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A Dreamer's Path

In the hymns that I sing, there's the night

in its elegy, I could not tell

from one sky to another dreamer's path

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A Dream In Black & White

all I've ever done is dream

I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer

even in a dream of black and white - is full of poetry

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photo taken at Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal

Wandering

remember that spring

I break off a stem

wandering in the mist

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/ Pansy (disambiguation) /

The Parthenon

Looking up to the sky, from The Parthenon Temple in Athens, Greece

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It's Pratical

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Colorful Victorian Houses

photo was taken at Hackettstown, New Jersey

during my trip to USA this spring.

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Summer Dream

I dreamt, and still dream up to the last stretch of the dream
that a flower had grown on my hand
I embraced and smelled the flower; and the scent of Southern summer wind
then - the sunrise came!

last night
that flower returned to me in a dream

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Simple Pleasure

this simple line leads to that distant happiness

I used to wake up early taking a long walk along the lake...

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Red Roses

the original photo, taken at the New York Botanical Garden

I did captured the roses, but this composition was lack of focus, and bit messy.  

so I cropped and sharpened it , at the end I used "fancy focus" to add some dynamics.  

~ be in your pleasures like the flowers blossom under the sun~

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Daydreaming

do not go far! 

she says as she sees me passing by

where, if not faraway, is my place?

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Flowers Blooming

~ have a beautiful weekend ~

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Mirror Mirror On The Wall

Reflection found at the main entrance to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.

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Before Sunrise II

before sunrise

dark kimono falling

the sound of the sea

Hanging In The Balance

~ please do keep the balance! ~ 

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Under The Sun

~ thanks for the visits, have a wonderful weekend ~  :)

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Summer Night

I came here to see the color of Aegean Sea,

unexpectedly, I met this handsome "man in black"...  :)

Wish you all enjoying happy Summer, I will see you when I come home.  :)

Signs ~ Museo Thyssen

~ The signs are as attractive as the collections in the museum ~

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Lively Madrid

~ To me, Madrid has always been full of life ~

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A380

~ A380, the world's largest passenger airliner ~

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The Cellists

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all;

music expresses itself. 

/ Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky /

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Sweet Avila

The writer José Martínez Ruiz, in his book El alma castellana (The Castilian Soul), described it as "perhaps the most 16th century city in Spain", and it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985.

Avila loves me...  :)

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A Shadow's Dream

sunset - unbearable beauty

the memory of another sleep

a kiss carved into this shadow's dream 

~ This is sunset at Temple of Debod in Madrid.  January 2013 ~

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