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Art, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Love, Portrait

Lauren DiMarco in Ireland © Joan Currie

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed
The fingers of this hand wherewith I write,
And ever since it grew more clean and white,
Slow to world-greetings, quick with its “O, list,”
When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst
I could not wear here plainer to my sight, 
Than that first kiss…
from First time he kissed me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Grateful for the small yet sacred declarations of love…

Bursting at the seams…

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Beauty, In Absence, Love, Relationships, watercolor

© Joan Currie – watercolor

Absence extinguishes a minor passion and intensifies a great one – as the wind blows out a candle but fans a fire.
from In Absence by François , Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Trying to wait patiently for your return…

Regrouping…

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Labyrinth of Desire, Love, Relationships, Rosemary Sullivan, watercolor

© Rachel Valley

She does not yet  know that real love does not demand perfection.
from Labyrinth of Desire by Rosemary Sullivan

But she is about to meet the man who will teach her …

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Holding tight…

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Beauty, Fashion, Love, Photography, Relationships

© Joan Currie

Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever. – Anonymous

Waiting for that great big crazy love to come again…

Model: Carole Morey

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Emily Dickinson, Fashion, Love, Photography, Poetry

© Joan Currie

That I did always love
I bring thee Proof
That till I loved
I never lived-Enough-
from That I did always love by Emily Dickinson

Perhaps it is time to turn up the heat…

Our happiness…

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Art, Design, Intimacy, Lauren DiMarco, Love, Photography, Rumi

© Joan Currie – Mixed media

The stars will be watching us,
and we will show them
what it is to be a thin crescent moon.
You and I unselfed, will be together,
indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.
The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar
as we laugh together, you and I.
In one form upon this earth,
and in another form in a timeless sweet land.
from A Moment of Happiness by Rumi

I love to linger in our own sweet, sweet world…

Model: Lauren DiMarco

Sucker punch…

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Fashion, Love, Nicholas Sparks, Photography, Relationships, Safe Haven, sucker punch, Ukushu Khrystyna

© Ukushu Khrystyna

She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
from Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

Is the love that takes your breath away too painful to bear?

Unrequited love…

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Love, Middleton, Photography, Roses

© Joan Currie

I never heard
Of any true affection, but ’twas nipt
With care, that, like the caterpillar, eats
The leaves of the spring’s sweetest book, the rose.
by Middleton

I have a rose for every tender new dream.

Fortifying my heart…

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Fashion, Love, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Photography, Poetry, Relationships, Ukushu Khrystyna, William Wordsworth

© Ukushu Khrystyna

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind…
from Ode: Intimations of Immortality by William Wordsworth

Still searching for strength in the ruins of what was a beautiful life – rest in peace.

Past pluperfect…

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Arturo Torres, Fashion, Gotye, Love, Photography, Relationships, Somebody That I Used To Know, Ukushu Khrystyna

© Arturo Torres

Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it’s an ache I still remember.
lyrics from Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye 

We are now just points in each other’s timelines.

Model: Ukushu Khrystyna