The fleeting world - Bubbles in a Stream

March 4, 2018 Street Scenes

Mailboxes longing for messages

“Writing letter
A forgotten art
Only used for
Business act.

Letters written
Recorded memories
Always remained
For generations.

Will those days
Ever come back?
Will the mailbox
Smile again?”

(T. Chandrupatla in Mailbox today)
Liège (B)

March 3, 2018 Street scenes - buildings

Sporty Ougrée is sitting at the bar

“There’s a place for everything,
Everything, anything,
There’s a place for everything
Where it ought to be:
For a chicken, the hen’s wing;
For poison, the bee’s sting;
For almond-blossom, Spring;
A beerhouse for me.”

(R. Graves in Strong beer)
Seraing-Ougrée (B)

March 1, 2018 Religious objects

The empty shrine

“There is a shrine whose golden gate
Was opened by the Hand of God;
It stands serene, inviolate,
Though millions have its pavement trod;
As fresh, as when the first sunrise
Awoke the lark in Paradise.”

(Digby Mackworth Dolben in The shrine)
Liège (B)

February 25, 2018 Street scenes - garages and parking places

Small is Beautiful!

"Auch kleine Dinge können uns entzücken,
Auch kleine Dinge können teuer sein.
Bedenkt, wie gern wir uns mit Perlen schmücken;
Sie werden schwer bezahlt und sind nur klein."

(P. Heyse in Italienisches Liederbuch, no. 109)
Liège (B)

February 17, 2018 What has been left

Even the door to the toilet is open

"Fair the day shine as it shone on my childhood -
Fair shine the day on the house with open door;
Birds come and cry there and twitter in the chimney -
But I go for ever and come again no more."

(R.L. Stevenson in Songs of travel and other verses no. 16)
Liège (B)