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kevissimo — Pluie au-dessus du Solferino i
Published: 2005-01-20 12:30:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 1632; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 290
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I left her in MontmarteFortune tellers and mother Mary on the walls
'Two children for you' the madame said
in four years time
and pressed a stone into my hand for protection
though none of it I asked for
Burdened with ghosts of unwritten days
I walked to disposess myself of things half seen
children without names
from a wife who refuses to exist
and the sky crumbled to weeping
over the Champs Elysee
From my bag a tiny amateur camera...
It bore the name of a dead friend
that came to me as a gift in the desert
I didn't realize it then
but tomorrow
two years to the day
would mark the anniversary
So as I crossed the Passerelle Solferino
and the lightning tore the clouds
over the Place de la Concorde
to it was added a tiny little flash
for remembering
and for a moment
the day was filled with angels...
Paris - October 20th 2004
For David
Sorry I didn't remember.... till now
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Comments: 26
wonderfully misty .....almost ghostly shot ........... 
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... and as she left for a place far beyond my existence ... thanx for that piece ... covers my mood ...
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Then it's purpose has been fulfilled....thank you.
My friend's name was David and I didn't realize till I posted the photo and checked the dates that the day after I shot the photo was the 2nd anniversary of his death....and it was his camera I shot with....
Life is inexplicable and bittersweet....
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Oooh I love this. It looks like something from a nightmare, and the raindrops looks like shimmering stars in the scene. The scene is so misty right in the middle especially that I just want to climb into the photo and explore. Very nice.
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Thanks so much....it was a magical time during that storm....
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Thank you....and all true as well....
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Thank you....there wasn't actually much thought behind it at the time. It was that kind of faux night and the rain was so hard that I didn't dare break out my big camera, so I used my little plastic one....
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Thank you.... it's actually rain.
And the story is true...
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Thank you so much....it truly didn't dawn on me till last night when I was writing, that I shot it with my dead friend's camera on the anniversary of his death. Life is funny that way....
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That's a rather unusual inner picture of Paris. And your text is haunting.
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Thank you.....yeah, of all the pictures I shot in Paris why I decided to do this one first I don't know...
The text, as always just arives when I post. I truly didn't realize the dates lining up until last night....
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Taken with the sketched context given in the description, the little image evokes a deluge of emotion. It takes heartfelt art to do that, thanks for sharing.
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And thank you for writing that....very much appreciated....
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