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Weekly Photo Challenge: Kiss
Please, she thought. I want to, he thought. No one will know. They ached. He texted. She hoped. This is my response to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
faces at the zoo
Zoo. Prison or preserve? Our responsibility to protect wildlife? Our desire to control, classify, incarcerate? Roaring, railing, roaming, ranging. Restrained by railings and ramparts? Animals looking out, humans looking in? The reverse? Need we do this? If not, would we suffer, would our knowledge of the world be diminished? Animals. Are we any better?
tadeuša košćuška
Grids, lines, patterns, symbolism. Symmetry. Asymmetry. Lone man steps out. Open bins. Closed shutters. Circular balconies. Private boxes for the Kalemegdan show? Sorrowful eyes behind mosaic bars. Windows to the soul. Dvojka, chariot of the gods. These are belgradestreets.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Home
The afternoon sun did not warm him. The families passing by in the park, laughing, playing, shouting, did not register. Could it get worse? What should he do? Thoughts of home weighed heavy on his mind. This is my response to the latest Weekly Photo Challenge from The Daily Post at WordPress.
Daily Prompt: Choose Your Adventure
The damp night air, heavy with fumes, enveloped him, suffocating, cloying, his head spinning. Head down, he walked on, lifting one foot in front of the other. Heart pounding, he hoped he had not been seen. There had been a moment, fleeting, the one when the three guys walked past him, when he felt it … Continue reading Daily Prompt: Choose Your Adventure
shopping mall
There are shiny, bright modern shopping malls on belgradestreets. Ušće and Delta City to name but two. And then there are more intriguing malls, from a time that seems forgotten to many. Bold concrete and metal. Curves, gates, stairways, a lost world just behind Terazije. Locked gates, broken windows. Hand made goods, street food, shoe … Continue reading shopping mall
Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique
Every piece of soap, every candle is unique. Hand made, created to stimulate the senses. An antidote to the plastic, shrink-wrapped conformity and security of the shopping malls. If you look carefully on belgradestreets you will find more than you expected. How long will belgradestreets remain unique? Will those who live, work and play here … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique
Weekly Photo Challenge: Love
Love on belgradestreets. This shop front, on Nemanjina, beguiled me, as I searched for a response to to this week's photo challenge from the The Daily Post at WordPress. And, these words, from "Love is a stranger" by Annie Lennox of "The Eurythmics" screamed out to be included... "It's guilt edged, glamorous and sleek by … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: Love
skadarlija
Bohemians and writers lived here. Their spirit lives on. Restaurants now dominate the street. Today, a cold day in mid winter, few came out to play. The street is alive with the past. Alive with the hopes of the future. Poets, writers, politicians, lovers. Where are you now? Will you come back to belgradestreets?
