© Joan Currie
Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. – Catherine Douzel
I loved our afternoon teas together.
Tea for Two…
26 Saturday May 2012
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Category Archives: Relationships
Failure to thrive…
24 Thursday May 2012
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Edna St. Vincent Millay, Fashion, Love, Love Is Not All, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Relationships, Writing
© Lauren DiMarco
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
from Love Is Not All by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Hold me, kiss me, love me…
The end of pillow talk…
23 Wednesday May 2012
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Bed, Christina Rossetti, Love, Love lost, Photography, Pillow talk, Poetry, Relationships, Tears, Writing
© Joan Currie
Lie still, lie still my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream’s sake.
by Christina Rossetti
Thinking of the days that will never be…
Me, myself this time…
22 Tuesday May 2012
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Beauty, Fashion, Labyrinth of Desire, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, Relationships, Rosemary Sullivan
© Kevin Osmond Man – detail
Eventually, however, you discover that you have nurtured in another what you should have nurtured in yourself and you are left empty. Even damaged. Bending your will to his, you lose your own passions and dreams.
from Labyrinth of Desire by Rosemary Sullivan
The cost of loving you has proven to be too high.
Model: Lauren DiMarco
Radiance…
16 Wednesday May 2012
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beautiful, Fashion, Margaret Sangster, Photography, Poetry, Vintage drop earrings, Winsome Womanhood, Writing
© Joan Currie – Vintage drop earrings
No trumpet sounds before him,
No silver bugles blow,
And skies are radiant o’er him,
And stars to light him glow.
from Winsome Womanhood by Margaret Sangster
I remember the intensity of your Prince Charming light.
Going solo…
15 Tuesday May 2012
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The word “alone” should not, for us, ring cold and hollow, but hot.
Pulsing with potentiality.
from Party of One, The Loner’s Manifesto by Anneli Rufus
I love being with you, but also revel in my time alone.
Your heart is with me…
10 Thursday May 2012
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America's Top Model, Beauty, e.e. cummings, Fashion, i carry your heart with me, Khrystyana Kazakova, Love, Photography, Poetry, Writing
© Khrystynana Kazakova
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
from i carry your heart with me by e. e. cummings
Some days I need all of you – in the flesh.
Model: Khrystynana Kazakova
Feline soul…
09 Wednesday May 2012
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© Creative Smiles Photography
I have seen how the cat asleep
would undulate, how the night
flowed through it like dark water;
and at times, it was going to fall
or possibly plunge into
the bare deserted snowdrifts.
Sometimes it grew so much in sleep
like a tiger’s great-grandfather,
and would leap in the darkness over
rooftops, clouds and volcanoes.
from Pablo Neruda’s poem Cat’s Dream, translated by Alastair Reid
I love the way you sleep.
Model: Lauren DiMarco
Afterthoughts…
08 Tuesday May 2012
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America's Top Model, Beauty, Fashion, Khrystyana Kazakova, Pablo Neruda, Photography, Sonnet XVII: I do not love you as if you were brine-rose, Todd Hido
© Todd Hido
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
from Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Tapscott
I wish you would articulate your love for me.
Model: Khrystynana Kazakova
Transcendent love…
06 Sunday May 2012
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© Creative Smiles Photography – detail
When true Love burns Desire is Love’s pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart.
from Desire by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You have shown me the purest form of love.
Model: Lauren DiMarco
Satin & Sand 