Helsinki for World Wide Wednesday (1)

Posted in the World Wide Wednesday

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears” Cesare Pavese

panorama-1

Panorama

The city panorama
Display filled with drama
Well, at least in the words
Of a known Americana!

Rhodes for World Wide Wednesday I three

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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart”
Confucius  

Rhodes 

Rhodes Island, Greece
A small piece
Of our history
Beyond the centuries
The old town
Considered the crown

Rhodes for World Wide Wednesday I four

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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart”
Confucius  

Rhodes

The beach
At your reach
Ixia, Kamiros or Lindos
A small drive with the bus


Everything you need
On the small island of Greece

Rhodes for World Wide Wednesday I two

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“Your photography is a record of your living,
for anyone who really sees”
P
aul Strand

Rhodes 

Travelling around the island
In the colours of black and white….

Rhodes for World Wide Wednesday I one

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“The single most important component
of a camera is the twelve inches behind it.”
Ansel Adams

Rhodes 

Travelling around the island
In the colours of black and white
What could be more inspiring
Or feeling more right

On the Sunny Side of the Bench

Posted in Seat Sunday

“When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family’s car at the drive-in” Forest Whitaker

On the Sunny Side of the Bench

On the sunny side of the bench
No option of getting drenched
Enjoying the long, warming rays
In these unworried and lazy days

Before the days are done
Soaking in the healing sun
With closed eyes this moment
Like an image in my mind burnt

Delphi for World Wide Wednesday I one

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“When preparing to travel,
lay out all your clothes and all your money.
Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”
Susan Heller 



Delphi

Enjoying the view
Reserved for a few
Looking at the sky
Closing my eyes
Stepping back in time
In the beautiful Delphi

Delphi for World Wide Wednesday I two

Posted in World Wide Wednesday

“When preparing to travel,
lay out all your clothes and all your money.
Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”
Susan Heller 



Deplhi

History written in stone
Time to get my mind blown
Hiking up the many stairs
Counting my steps in pairs

The many ancient ruins
On top of the mountain
The reward of the effort
Which made me sweat a lot

Dolls for Mundane Monday

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“Our daily lives are so mundane,
we get taken over by
what is immediately in front of us
and we don’t see beyond that”
Benedict Cumberbatch

dolls

Dolls 

Eyes staring
Almost glaring
Never moving
Only viewing

Toward the future?
Or into the past?

No one knows
What on goes
In a doll’s mind
Just be kind

You may be surprised
Or even, hypnotized

They may be mundane
Objects d’art even
Dolls in the window
But no one really knows

Vienna for World Wide Wednesday I one

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“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

Vienna

When on a walkabout
On the city’s streets at night
Drawn towards the castle lights
Shining ever so bright

The past has its resonance
In the architecture with elegance
You may even glimpse an eminence
Roaming around the residence

Let the feelings of lavish
Your daily routine vanish
And enjoy a sip from a chalice
In the Schönbrunn Palace