Rantings, writings and moments captured by Rox

Pensive observer. Silent anarchist. Loud contradiction.

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THREE THINGS I learnt when my Dad turned 60

THREE THINGS I learnt when my Dad turned 60

  Where did all those lines come from? There’s a distinct moment when you look at your parents and admit to yourself, “he’s getting old”. These lines on his face are terrible worries you won’t really understand until he’s gone – best you can hope for is that you were kind enough to each other to make it worth it. Those lines are lessons, and fear, and

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THREE THINGS you didn't know about the Protea

THREE THINGS you didn’t know about the Protea

You think you’re old?

The Protea family is one of the oldest groups of flowering plants. Historic records show that the ancestor to the protea was present before the breaking up of Gondwanaland (remember that huge continent they taught us about at school), yeah she’s a 300 million year old classic.She’s also by no means a fading wallflower, if you think about it – this beauty was around before…

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“Combophotos” by Stephen McMennamy Blend Two Contrasting Images Together

Stephen McMennamy (previously featured here) is an art director based in Atlanta. His “Combophotos” series focuses on splicing two mismatched images into one perfectly.

A group of surrealists first conceived the idea of “combophotos” during the 1900s. The technique was called “exquisite corpse”, a game where an image would be sketched on a piece of paper and then folded and passed along, where the next person would add another element to it and the cycle would repeat itself. The result would be a series of unexpected images; a combination of figures with human bodies and animal heads and other unusual images an artist’s mind can concoct.

Stephen McMennamy brings a contemporary twist to this classic game by creatively using props and fusing them with photography which creates a synchronized composition of two dissimilar images. The juxtaposition of two elements effortlessly blend, which the artist uses to try his hand at fantasy and reality.

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Artistic Mash-up!

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I don't need a man to undress me, I know the loops of my shirts and buttons that keep me together. I need my man to undress my thoughts and swaddle me in his. I want a man to undress my mind slowly, toiling with my thoughts until I have no choice but to wear only him

Roxanne Marais

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Little Monsters, Little Men

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Pup-Peter

I expected so much - on the back of the sales dogs you sent to hound me. Can you taste the respect drain from my mouth like the weakened flavor priced to match? Can you hear all your underlying promises, poised just so, just enough to make me believe...never enough to make me act. Your ring is closing master...the lions you once fed, now gnaw at your bones in their sleep.

How peculiar - your love bust cacophony - I hear them, but as you already know, I gave up listening a while ago.

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Turning point

"Are you a romantic ?" She asked. "I've never had to be" he whispered. "Why?!" Her statement left her teeth somewhat sharper than expected. "I've never known the difference" he said with his kiss...

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AM

She needed a cushion to hide the cold from her wary bones. The logs would rage for hours as their conversations toiled with odds and ends they never knew they would want to discuss. He blossomed in the midst of winter, she was thawed once again - how curious their love, for those who were not in it.

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#perceptions #Degreesoflove

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She watched the woods for while, confidence was his seduction - knowing him was hers...she would never return to feel either.

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#Wonderlust in a video

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Inside you, it breathes. Some of them are chained and muzzled, and some march your parameters, urging a breach. Inside you, it breathes, slowly, painfully - this animal...the one you don't acknowledge, the one you secretly feed when you gaze upon his face

Roxanne Marais

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She closed her eyes, and bravely sipped her wounds. They tasted like survival, and a great masterpiece that is yet to be formed.

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tonight your heart will break, and you’ll know what it feels like to have all the warmth you hold inside your chest bleed out of your eyes and dry up into nothing the tears don’t stop, they won’t stop until everything inside you is completely dried out but you’ll try to hold them in so you’ll close your eyes and sink your teeth into your lip and you won’t realise how deep you’ve bitten into your own flesh until red breaks through the crevices in your skin. everything burns. the vodka in your throat. the smoke in your lungs. the tears in your eyes. everything is burning down there’s fire on your skin and your mouth is full of ash. tonight darkness will seep into your ears and take residence in your head. it will be loud and destructive and you’ll try to break yourself open to pull it out but it will dig its claws into your skull and snap its jaws at your hands there will be pain. it may feel like it will never end but honey, you know better than anyone else: nothing lasts forever. so if in the middle of the night you feel something faceless chewing at your heart and you can’t find your voice so your screams only echo inside your bones, remember to just breathe . this pain means you’re still alive feel it . there are dead things inside you, but you are still alive.

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To love is not possession, until my head knows this and my heart feels this - I simply cannot give in to a routine love, with routine possessions, myself amongst them.

Roxanne Marais

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No one thinks of the birds that fly south for the winter and don’t make it back. Maybe they didn’t make it, but maybe they stayed in warmer weather because they don’t need the flock.

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Some words that resonate #Quote #WordPorn