Without a photograph

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Photograph I : J.R.R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King

Without a photograph

People around me, I see,

have a closed window; it’s their

protection.

My eyes see in an open sky, normally

conditioned, as regular outside standards,

sometimes.

If I touch a place, I knew the touch

of it, before I reach out.

When I close the old places,

it has been closed,

it has been ordered.

Reality is half part of my world,

balanced to be a modern idea

of the future.

Even though, I love

my wonderful profession,

life and body, the spirit

is relative, in the end.

Photographs do not exist,

there because we, yes, they and I,

we don’t believe in vanity.

Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans

Europe, the Netherlands, Tilburg,

May 9, 2019

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9796216-it-is-a-new-morning-by-the-most-sensitive-hands

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9797000-my-ladder-is-not-vertical-but-in-opposite-direction-turned

© 2019 Petra Hermans

Photograph II : J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) – The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf

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