Under Windsor Bridge, 1912, by Adolphe Valette
The oracle looks
Seeing past mist and fog
Global chaos
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World War I began two years after this was painted.
The world has never been the same since.
The world has never been the same since.
For other's takes on this moody painting go here:
the best time for the oracle to see the future is through the fog
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i'm glad you don't have the verification. i put a comment up before? but where did it go?
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under windsor bridge senryu
thanks for your kind words about the dogs. i have another two, but these were the ones that were dumped on the street. people will dump any kind of dog on the street!!
oh, oK, so now you saw it.
ReplyDeleteyup. politics will make you crazy!!!
so can the oracle tell me if it is really happening right before christmas? i mean why waste time shopping then you know...smiles....
ReplyDeleteoh hahah Brian smiles right back!
ReplyDeleteno reference to the Mayan calendar-rather the time before Wordl War I.
The oracle knows!
ReplyDeleteI think your words go perfectly with this picture, and your poem is a wonderful indicator of the horrible war about to descend on humanity. Is this a painting? It looks like an early photograph.
ReplyDeleteI like the notion of the guy in the painting being an oracle...nice...
ReplyDeleteI love seeing all the takes on this. On oracle seeing is an original take :).
ReplyDeleteYes, this does look like the beginning of the end..you really nailed it! Oracles are hard to come by these days, I trust you!!
ReplyDeleteYou've brought the dark side of this picture really well!
ReplyDeleteLike this idea of the oracle peering into the mist...hoping to discern the upcoming events.
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SueAnn
In praise of Second Sight, perhaps? :)
ReplyDeleteYes he could be peering earnestly into the future! Sad that WWII was
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sometimes oracles see more than is good for us.
ReplyDeleteThe Oracle could be seeing the economic chaos of today.
ReplyDeleteNice take on this prompt.
... the GREAT War ~ and the shaping of the 20th Century.
ReplyDeleteI feel like we're all peering into the mist a bit these days...We could use an oracle, methinks.
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Ther burden boirne by the oracle to foresee such suffering.
ReplyDeleteWow Karhe, creepy ! , i remember reading Carl Jung had a crightening dresm that the world was burning just becore ww2, these seers see it coming , eh ! , well done
ReplyDeleteThe industrial revolution produced the machinery that made the future of war so different. Interesting that for a painter who could not see clearly, he certainly understood the ramifications of war machinery. A poignant poem, Kathe. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteAmazing isn't it how so much can change all around the world and there, and still thankfully the bridge stands serving proudly!
ReplyDeleteA fine (and part-scary) Magpie!
ReplyDeleteAh, we know so much and yet so little. Nice take on the prompt!
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