Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art! -
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters
at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors -
No – yet still [...]
Categories: photography, poem
Tagged: art, awake, breast, bright, Carlotta Manaigo, feel, gazing, His Last Sonnet, John Keats, love, splendour, Star, steadfast, unchangeable
- Published:
- 28/02/2010 – 11:32 am
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
I love you
Not only for what you are
But for what I am
When I am with you.
Images: © Erick Soler: Will You Still Love Me? 2010
Courtesy of the artist
Text: From Love (first stanza) by Roy Croft
Categories: photography, word
Tagged: body, Erick Soler, love, male, man, me, photography, Roy Croft, You
- Published:
- 18/02/2010 – 6:13 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles;
his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate;
his tears pure messengers sent from his heart;
his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth.
Text: William Shakespeare
Image: © Ken Pao, styling by Polar, model Doug Bell at Red Models NY
Categories: photography, word
Tagged: body, bond, Doug Bell, fashion, heart, immaculate, Ken Pao, love, male, man, messengers, model, photography, Polar, sincere, thoughts, William Shakespeare, words
- Published:
- 14/02/2010 – 2:04 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep,
And shall my soul that lies within your hand
Remember nothing, as the blowing sand
Forgets the palm where long blue shadows creep
When winds along the darkened desert sweep?
Or would it still remember, tho’ it spanned
A thousand heavens, while the planets fanned
The vacant ether with their voices deep?
Soul of my [...]
Categories: photography, poem
Tagged: beloved, crown, Death, Dom Agius, Heaven, love, nobility, poem, remember, Royal, Sara Teasdale, shadow, sleep
- Published:
- 08/02/2010 – 12:10 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
The essence of all beauty, I call love,
The attribute, the evidence, and end,
The consummation to the inward sense
Of beauty apprehended from without,
I still call love.
Images: © Daniel Cubero
Text: From Sword Glare by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 – 1861)
Categories: photography, word
Tagged: attribute, Beauty, consummation, Daniel Cubero, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, end, essence, evidence, love, male, men, sense, Sword Glare
- Published:
- 31/01/2010 – 9:54 am
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
T’s easy to drink it up and watch the orange shirts
in the bar from the late afternoon shift
and the loneliness of a miner on his bed, naked from his shower
so lonely
not even the gin of centuries past to comfort and keep for
a single night a single moment
just these motel sheets and the air conditioning
might drop [...]
Categories: photography, word
Tagged: afternoon, Bill Jacobson, body, drink, Hell, Here, hole, home, J.L. Nash, LIVE, lonely, long, love, male, man, poem, portrait, shift, stop, watch
- Published:
- 28/01/2010 – 6:17 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
Fake logos
Imitations of great designs
Untrue accomplishments
Make-believe fame
Borrowed opinions
Forged ambition
Artificial goals
Cheap sentiment
All demands, no giving back
Cheap everything
Carbon copy
Nothing, absolutely nothing.
Unless you…
Live with passion
Buy quality
Humbly accept reality
Strive for real accomplishments
Give back
Love what is unique about someone
Educate yourself to express the magic of everything you think about
Something. Something more. Everything.
Text: © Lucius Bod
Image: Luke Worrall by Mariano Vivanco [...]
Categories: photography, word
Tagged: accomplishment, ambition, cheap, demand, design, educate, everything, express, fame, goal, imitation, logo, love, Lucius Bod, Luke Worrall, magic, Mariano Vivanco, nothing, opinion, passion, quality, real, reality, sentiment, someone, something, You, yourself
- Published:
- 28/12/2009 – 8:22 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly today,
Were to change by tomorrow, and fleet in my arms,
Like fairy-gifts fading away,
Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art,
Let thy loveliness fade as it will,
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart
Would entwine itself verdantly still.
It is [...]
Categories: photography, poem
Tagged: art, Beauty, believe, change, dear, FACE, gaze, gift, heart, look, love, male, man, moment, see, Soul, Stevenio Cheshire, tear, Thomas Moore, today, Tomorrow, young, youth
- Published:
- 27/12/2009 – 10:23 am
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
It should be different but it’s not. It’s been so long a time since here and then that he is somewhat surprised when he still walks to the fridge the moment she leaves for a nightshift at the local hospital. It’s Christmas eve… one more sleep ‘til the dutiful visits are performed and [...]
Categories: exclusive, word
Tagged: absence, alone, behaviour, celebrations, children, Christmas, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, darkness, doorstep, eat, family, ghost, he, house, illusion, J.L. Nash, Joy, light, love, lucky, mad, magic, missing, moment, pain, picture, shopping, short story, smile, story, surprise, thought, tree, wife, wish
- Published:
- 23/12/2009 – 4:52 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
If music be the food of love, play on.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Images: © Aymeric Giraudel
Music: Chopin’s Waltz Op.69 No.2 played by Vladimir Ashkenazy, 1981
Quotes: William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
Categories: music, photography, word
Tagged: Aymeric Giraudel, Chopin, drink, food, gentleman, love, man, music, piano, play, unkindness, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Waltz, William Shakespeare
- Published:
- 18/12/2009 – 4:32 pm
- Author:
- By The Pandorian
