Everybody Comes To Rick's (click image to enlarge)

jaune 2 (click image to enlarge)

jaune

The Yellow Umbrella is a pictogram that conveys the message 'under the shade of joy'.

the instrument

Sadhana (Sanskrit term) translates as 'means' to an end

Alternate caption : Let us be kind if fate isn't

I.D. (click image to enlarge)

EXPLODE!!!

How much longer will it wait,
the steam,
unless summoned away by a dying fire?

-feelers-

---they might know how you feel but they'll never know how deeply you feel---

'slippery' as in slapstick! (click image to enlarge)

the Wheels of Change 2 (click image to enlarge)

the Wheels of Change (click image to enlarge)

Renunciation

i
renounce the capitalization
of the first person.

...i have to say with utmost conviction that the world, after having witnessed all the genocides so far, needs no other philosophy or religion than the one that teaches the virtues of equality & tolerance...

CRAVINGS

My feet
are tingling to walk on the sands
that leave no footprints.

(inspired by Albert Camus' afterword to his book - the outsider)

mea culpa

there is a crack in the soul's mirror
-the past,
& all the while i thought it was just a smudge.

Blurred Visions

Embittered and weary,
i'm on the look out for a tower
from which my voice can be heard.

muteness

the evil
casts shadows in the dark.
the moonless sky trembles.

THUNDER!!! (click image to enlarge)

Under hypnosis

The truth,
and the lie,
are a part of reality.

the cliff

I stand on the edge
but something is holding me back
- is it the force of life?

Freedom

Outside the cage
the choices are mine,
the consequences are mine.

Vendetta

To put the horror in your eyes
and to revel
while you squirm.

Schadenfreude

To see the horror in your eyes
and to revel
while you squirm.

Identity

You are
What you were
& nobody cares what you will be.

(the emphasis is a trap; introspection is the way out, & then some adventure.)

Superstition
is ignorance and so is evil,
but on a higher plane

The season

Drawn
to the gravity of the speeding headlights
the wings, for one last time,
perform the ritual
-the dance of death.

Conscience

When you look into a mirror
would you stare into your eyes,
and nothing else?

Lamentation

Through the seasons & a thousand different colors - we travelled,
and all i have got for you my friend
is a handful of dust & some teardrops.

Consequence

Water ripples, in spite of their symbolic transience & (supposed) infantile circumstance, can have a profound effect on the overall countenance of a lake.

Without posterity there are no grand designs. (David Brooks)

It's for the future
that the present ticks
but to be trapped in the lure of the present is to perish in the same tense.

Darker

Life is a silhouette
& against death
contrasts.

Bibliophilic reflections

Its a well-laid misconception which states that people can find answers to their questions in books. Books just give random answers and the rest is introspection.

Ibex (click image to enlarge)

Crowned with a head that harbors a migraine,

I thank the heavens for my 46 chromosomes

- for I am neither of their ilk nor their fury.

Pebbles on a riverbed (or just rhetoric)

Evil is where good isn't, satan reigns where God fails - the vacuum merely denotes a lack of faith and to challenge His omnipresence is to brazenly entertain a paradox by submitting to blasphemous qualms (reference: "If God be for us, who can be against us." - Romans 8:31). On the other hand it is also true that the evolution of humanity (& mankind) has constantly been guided by the fear of God. Various religions through the formative ages have taught that the goal of self-actualization can be achieved by faith that is further branched out into their respective means like the path of chastity, the path of discipline, the path of redemption, the path of spirituality - to name a few.
And the only way out of human suffering is to place total conviction in secularism that subliminally teaches resilience through the path of unconditional love.

Refuge

'twas a great relief
that in his art
he unabashedly resigned his stoicism.