“In springtime, love is carried on the breeze.
Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head.”
– Emma Racine deFleur
Flowers
“As soon as I turned the key I saw it hanging, the color of fire and sunset. the colour of flamboyant flowers. ‘If you are buried under a flamboyant tree, ‘ I said, ‘your soul is lifted up when it flowers. Everyone wants that.’
She shook her head but she did not move or touch me.” ― Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
The sun will stand as your best man
And whistle
When you have found the courage
To marry forgiveness
When you have found the courage
to marry
Love.
~ Hafiz ~
“So you may say,
Greek flower; Greek ecstasy
reclaims forever
one who died
following intricate song’s
lost measure.'”
Hilda Doolittle
Purple as tulips in May, mauve
into lush velvet, purple
as the stain blackberries leave
on the lips, on the hands,
the purple of ripe grapes
sunlit and warm as flesh….
Marge Piercy
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension.
That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. — D. H. Lawrence
“As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
― Pablo Neruda
“I knew, of course, that trees and plants had roots, stems, bark, branches and foliage that
reached up toward the light. But I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.”
Edward Steichen
Monochrome Madness will be posted later today for your viewing pleasure on Leanne Cole’s blog.
If you would like to participate and submit a photo in the upcoming weeks, please email your monochrome image to leanne@leannecole.com.au and include a link to your blog or website if you have one. It doesn’t have to be WordPress blogger, it can be a Facebook page, a Flickr page, etc. Include your name or your blog name. The image size should be low resolution, so the largest size should be 1000 pixels or less. The deadline for submission is before 6 p.m. on or before Tuesday, Melbourne Australia time. The earlier the better for Leanne. If you should miss the deadline your photograph will be posted the following week. The complete instructions are posted on Leanne’s blog should you have any questions or need help. The first MM of every month will have a theme. Next week the May theme will be “fences”. There will be two galleries during the theme week, one for the theme and one like there normally is for those that may choose not to do a theme. ❋
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
John Keats
“It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Maverick Mist 