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“We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there
are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and
I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when
busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always
meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves;
don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your
oars in the water with theirs.”
-William Makepeace Thackeray quotes (Indian born English Author and
Novelist of 'Vanity Fair', 1811-1863)-
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B I R D (61 months ago | reply)
the coldness of age
the point in time when things fall into perspective
and you look back and see
that in that direction the darkness narrows
as it did when you were anticipating the future
cruelly though there is a point
where even when pressed to remember
you can not remember what really grew
ten seasons past and do not know
much past that the memories coalescing
with the grandiose visions that occupied your time
years past, now locked firmly and undisputedly
in frozen time joined by the glue of collective unconsciousness
you stared at all the stars in your path
you tried to count them one by one
when the coldness in front will pulled you in
all you have left are little twinges that remind you
you most have done something to
have caused all these aches and pains
B I R D
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©2007, Frederick Douglass Perry, All rights reserved
Isabella Perry (61 months ago | reply)
Fantastic colours - I love your shot and the quotation too.
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sum girl (61 months ago | reply)
ah! u r finally back with ur rich colors!
love it! what a wonderful point of view!
greenhem (61 months ago | reply)
beautiful, poignant moment and literary piece! and the colours , well - they are earth, sea, jungles and gardens and more!
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Lynn Morag (61 months ago | reply)
Love the quote by Thackeray ... so wise.
And Fred's words made me think too!
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yettis doings (61 months ago | reply)
Lovely rich colours, I'm missing my old deck chair... I think I'll get another, if they still make them. On the youth quotation, a new broom sweeps clean..... but an old one knows where the dirt is!
B a h a r (61 months ago | reply)
Nice texture and mood!
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*evolve* (61 months ago | reply)
nice shot. love the colours
inanutshell (61 months ago | reply)
lovely colors of the dupatta :)
Lookfar (61 months ago | reply)
Dreaming sandcastles :)
JourneyToNoWhere (61 months ago | reply)
excellent color in this Wind LaSS.....playing on beach? ;-)
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studio matahari lutong (60 months ago | reply)
very beautiful color composition
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