Month: May 2016

poetry | 101 | rehab | scream

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You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive

– Muse, Knights of Cydonia

scream
no one, will believe you

no one, cares

scream, and scream
no one, will believe you

no one, cares

scream, and scream, and scream
makes

no,
difference

until
one day

they do
care

scream

My prompt for this week’s Poetry 101 Rehab is SCREAM and is dedicated to all those who suffer, in silence

You can link to your post in response to today’s prompt by leaving a comment on my post and / or by clicking on the poetry | 101 | badge below and leaving a link.

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Please feel free to copy and paste the badge across to your own post and your own site 🙂

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poetry | 101 | rehab | the rope

Image | | andy townend

happy,
despite

the rope,
that constrained
him

he
held on
to
hope

the rope

My prompt for this week’s Poetry 101 Rehab is THE ROPE and it was inspired by a comment left on (another) face, by LuAnne Holder, author of Wind Rush.

So, over to you.

You can link to your post in response to today’s prompt by leaving a comment on my post and / or by clicking on the poetry | 101 | badge below and leaving a link.

And you can also tag your post with Poetry 101 Rehab so that it shows up in the WordPress Reader.

Please feel free to copy and paste the badge across to your own post and your own site 🙂

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More information can be found on my poetry | 101 | rehab page.

project 365 mobile | mono | square | week 49

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lemon tree
irrigation
sprinkle
ai no korida
fuego
cafe americano
boys and their toys

I launched this Project 365 on Sunday, 14 June 2015.

You can see all my images, as they are posted, each day, to my mobile | mono | square album on Flickr.

You can also review all my weekly updates, posted at noon each Sunday, by clicking here.

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face me (!)

Image | | andy townend

Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
― Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

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I took this shot today during a photo shoot in Salamanca which I think will give me material for two more posts – featuring pianos and the work of Henry Moore.

But, for now, take a look at that face!

for wordpress weekly photo challenge – face

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm af-s f/4G lens, no edits*

out in the midday sun | 2

Image | | andy townend

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The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

How could a weekly blog post about the life of an Englishman living in Spain not include a reference to those words spoken by Audrey Hepburn paying the part of Eliza Doolittle in the movie My Fair Lady which in turn was based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion?

Often misquoted as ‘the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain’, or is it just me that constantly misquotes it? Probably. So much for that expensive private education and my success in English Literature examinations which included, as it happens, studying Pygmalion. But, as I said in my opening essay, I like to think my education taught me to think, not to remember things. So there you are.

Anyway, I think it is a reasonably well established fact that English people, at home and abroad, like to talk about the weather. A lot.

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(another) face

Image | | andy townend

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

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I took this shot yesterday during a hike with a group of friends in the beautiful countryside surrounding Ciudad Rodrigo, España. You can see more on my new photo-reportage site salamancastreets.

I thought this one apposite for the weekly photo challenge too!

for wordpress weekly photo challenge – face

*shot with nikon d700 and nikkor 70-200mm af-s f/4G lens, no edits*

project 365 mobile | mono | square | week 48

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haughty kitty
pillars
eat me
pinned to my son’s wall
aperture
eagle eye
frustration

I launched this Project 365 on Sunday, 14 June 2015.

You can see all my images, as they are posted, each day, to my mobile | mono | square album on Flickr.

You can also review all my weekly updates, posted at noon each Sunday, by clicking here.

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