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Rainy Night
Rainy Night
Alicia


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Collection: Illustrated Word
Date: Mar 9, 2008
Galleries: Emotive, Overlays
Date Uploaded: Mar 9, 2008

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 Ghosts of all my lovely sins,
Who attend too well my pillow,
Gay the wanton rain begins;
Hide the limp and tearful willow.

Turn aside your eyes and ears,
Trail away your robes of sorrow,
You shall have my further years-
You shall walk with me tomorrow.

I am sister to the rain;
Fey and sudden and unholy,
Petulant at the windowpane,
Quickly lost, remembered slowly.

I have lived with shades, a shade;
I am hung with graveyard flowers.
Let me be tonight arrayed
In the silver of the showers.

Every fragile thing shall rust;
When another April passes
I may be a furry dust,
Sifting through the brittle grasses.

All sweet sins shall be forgot;
Who will live to tell their siring?
Hear me now, nor let me rot
Wistful still, and still aspiring.

Ghosts of dear temptations, heed;
I am frail, be you forgiving.
See you not that I have need
To be living with the living?

Sail, tonight, the Styx’s breast;
Glide among the dim processions
Of the exquisite unblest,
Spirits of my shared transgressions,

Roam with young Persephone.
Plucking poppies for your slumber . . .
With the morrow, there shall be
One more wraith among your number.

Dorothy Parker

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Nikon D810
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 G ED
 03/12/2008 06:50:58 PM
Embrace the dark side, this is fantastic! That doll really is creepy...what great processing! There was a Twilight Zone episode about a murderous doll-- this image brings that to mind :-)
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 03/10/2008 10:32:35 PM
It is nice to have an outlet for your "noire" side sometimes, isn't it? A very worthy image for this poem, quite in keeping with the mood.
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 03/10/2008 09:09:04 AM
Yikes - something creepy about dolls to me.

This has a definite sadness. I feel like I'm really inside somebody's anguish.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 03/10/2008 07:12:29 AM
crrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeepy... lol@ your comment ;)
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Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 03/10/2008 06:49:02 AM
i think you did. i love dorothy parker for the same reasons. this image works very well.
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Canon EOS-600D/T3i Rebel
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM II
 03/09/2008 11:50:34 PM
I'm going to leave my own self a comment because I don't want to mess up the poem with chatter. This side - Illustrated Word (and thank you again, Judy!!!) - is a great outlet for my noire side. I know this one is a bit heavy, but man, it feels good - :op

I'm a huge Dorothy Parker fan. Probably because I can identify with her wit, her anger, and her sorrow. Every single one of the verses of that poem stands on its own and is yet part of the whole. I feel it's a masterpiece. And I hope I did it justice by pairing it with my image.
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