poetry | 101 | rehab | road

Image | July 10, 2016July 10, 2016 | andy townend

nunca te entregues ni te apartes
junto al camino, nunca digas
no puedo más y aquí me quedo
– music by paco ibañez, poetry by josé augustín goytisolo

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the road
the road, is long
the road, is long, and the road, is hard
the road, is long, and the road, is hard,
and

full,
of pitfalls,
perils, and
punishment

(for,
the unwary)

and

false,
turns

the road, is long
the road, is long and the road, is hard
the road, is long and the road, is hard
and (yet) it
is

(and,
always will be)

yours,
to

take

road

My prompt for this week’s Poetry 101 Rehab is ROAD and is dedicated to all those who walk their own, road

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

project 365 | mobile | mono | skies | four

Image | July 10, 2016July 11, 2016 | andy townend

027 | 365

026 | 365

025 | 365

024 | 365

023 | 365

022 | 365

021 | 365

I launched my latest Project 365 on Monday 13 June 2016 by posting a single photo each day to my Instagram account and to my Flickr account. I posted my first weekly update (late) on Saturday 25 June 2016. (This post is late and should have been published on Sunday, 10 July 2016)

I will post an update each Sunday and you can see them all by clicking here.

Watch the skies!

project 365 | mobile | mono | skies | three

Image | July 3, 2016July 11, 2016 | andy townend

020 | 365

019 | 365

018 | 365

017 | 365

016 | 365

015 | 365

014 | 365

I will post an update each Sunday and you can see them all by clicking here.

Watch the skies!

out in the midday sun | 3

Image | June 28, 2016June 28, 2016 | andy townend

You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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Funny how Hemingway summed up the dreams and aspirations of a group of young teenage boys who set forth on a European adventure. Perfectly.

We didn’t get that drunk, mostly sticking to orange, exotic, Fanta in deliciously heavy brown glass bottles. Oh, and ok, the occasional beer. We were young, I was only thirteen. And being thirteen in the Summer of 1975 was a world away from being so in 2016.

Sex? Well we dreamed of it a lot, fantasised about every girl we had met, and were yet to meet. But sex, as in real, messy, sex. No.
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project 365 | mobile | mono | skies | two

Image | June 26, 2016 | andy townend

013 | 365

012 | 365

011 | 365

010 | 365

009 | 365

008 | 365

007 | 365

I will post an update each Sunday and you can see them all by clicking here.

Watch the skies!

partners

Image | June 25, 2016 | andy townend

Not great. I got this new tight-assed partner they stuck me with, but hopefully it won’t last too long.

Quote from Starchy and Hutch, TV series

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for wordpress weekly photo challenge – partners

project 365 | mobile | mono | skies | one

Image | June 25, 2016 | andy townend

006 | 365

005 | 365

004 | 365

003 | 365

002 | 365

001 | 365

I launched my original Project 365 on Sunday, 14 June 2015 and I completed it on Sunday, 12 June 2016, one year later – maybe I should have made it Project 366 given that in 2016 February had 29 days. It has been an interesting year, much has changed during this year, including me.

You can see all my images in my mobile | mono | square album on Flickr (although I must confess that account needs tidying up as not all the photos are there yet).

You can also review each of the weekly updates, that I posted each Sunday, by clicking here.

And I’m not done yet, my new project mobile | mono | skies kicked off on Monday 13 June 2016, as with my previous project I will post an update here each Sunday.

project 365 mobile | mono | square | week 52 (and a day)

Image | June 14, 2016 | andy townend

no poner los pies

perspective

single (malt)

no comment

madroño

voted

watering

rosa

I launched this Project 365 on Sunday, 14 June 2015 and I completed it on Sunday, 12 June 2015, exactly 365 days later – maybe I should have made it Project 366 given that this year February had 29 days. It has been an interesting year, much has changed during this year, including me.

You can see all my images in my mobile | mono | square album on Flickr.

You can also review each of the weekly updates, that I posted each Sunday, by clicking here.

And I’m not done yet, my new project mobile | mono | skies kicked off on Monday this week, about which more later!