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Monday 19 September 2016

underground play structure / Out of the Fog

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Refugees walk through a field on their way to a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni. 

Refugees walk through a field on their way to a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni: photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / Magnum Foundation via Time, 17 September 2016

A view of the camp for refugees and migrants along at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni.

A view of the camp for refugees and migrants along at the Greek-Macedonian border, near the village of Idomeni: photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / Magnum Foundation via Time, 17 September 2016


#Greece Thousands of migrants, #refugees remain stranded in #Europe By @atzortzinis @MagnumFND [A girl from Syria rests near a camp for refugees on the Greek island of Chios]: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 17 September 2016


#Greece Thousands of migrants, #refugees remain stranded in #Europe By @atzortzinis @MagnumFND [Graves of refugees who drowned while crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece, many of them unidentified, were made on the Greek island of Lesvos]: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 17 September 2016 



#Greece Thousands of migrants, #refugees remain stranded in #Europe By @atzortzinis @MagnumFND [A group of men praying at the Schisto camp for refugees and migrants, near Athens]: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 17 September 2016
  
A refugee boy gazes over a border fence separating Greece and Macedonia.  
Issa, an eleven-year-old Kurdish boy one of thousands of refugees stranded at a squalid encampment near the Greek border village of Idomeni, gazes out from a tree toward Macedonia: photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / Magnum Foundation via Time, 17 September 2016

A refugee boy gazes over a border fence separating Greece and Macedonia. 
 
Issa, an eleven-year-old Kurdish boy one of thousands of refugees stranded at a squalid encampment near the Greek border village of Idomeni, gazes out from a tree toward Macedonia: photo by Angelos Tzortzinis / Magnum Foundation via Time, 17 September 2016
 

#Greece Thousands of migrants, #refugees remain stranded in #Europe By @atzortzinis @MagnumFND [Issa, an eleven-year-old Kurdish boy, one of thousands of refugees stranded at a squalid encampment near the Greek border village of Idomeni, gazes out from a tree toward Macedonia]: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 17 September 2016 


SYRIA - Children play in an underground playground built to protect them from shelling in Arbin. By @SameerAlDoumy: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 September 2016


A Syrian child running into the tunnel in an underground playground in the town of #Erbin. Ph @SameerAlDoumy: image via Sameer Al-Doumy @SameerAlDoumy, 17 September 2016


“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.” Here's Douma .. where the survivors die thousands of times everyday #Douma #Syria: image via Abd Doumany @Abd Doumany, 30 August 2015 



Syrians amid the rubble of buildings destroyed by airstrikes in the rebel-held area of Douma, a suburb of Damascus:  photo by Abd Doumany / Agence France-Presse, 19 September 2015
   

SYRIA - Syrians walk through the rubble following an airstrike on Karm al-Jabal. By @KaramAlmari25 #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 September 2016

 A Syrian man stands in the rubble of destroyed buildings following an air strike in Aleppo's rebel-controlled neighbourhood of Karm al-Jabal on September 18, 2016. Syria's ceasefire was on the brink of collapsing on September 18, after a US-led coalition strike killed dozens of regime soldiers and Aleppo city was hit by its first raids in nearly a week. / AFP PHOTO / KARAM AL-MASRIKARAM AL-MASRI/AFP/Getty Images

A Syrian man stands in the rubble of destroyed buildings following an air strike in Aleppo’s rebel-controlled neighbourhood of Karm al-Jabal: photo by Karam Al-Masri/AFP, 19 September 2016
 
 A Syrian man stands in the rubble of destroyed buildings following an air strike in Aleppo's rebel-controlled neighbourhood of Karm al-Jabal on September 18, 2016. Syria's ceasefire was on the brink of collapsing on September 18, after a US-led coalition strike killed dozens of regime soldiers and Aleppo city was hit by its first raids in nearly a week. / AFP PHOTO / KARAM AL-MASRIKARAM AL-MASRI/AFP/Getty Images
 
A Syrian man stands in the rubble of destroyed buildings following an air strike in Aleppo’s rebel-controlled neighbourhood of Karm al-Jabal: photo by Karam Al-Masri/AFP, 19 September 2016

An Afghan boy runs past at a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
An Afghan boy runs past a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP 19 September 2016

An Afghan boy runs past at a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

An Afghan boy runs past a local brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP 19 September 2016
 
Out of the Fog


A woman passed out on a sidewalk in San Francisco: photo by Gabrielle Lurie for The New York Times, 19 September 2016


A woman passed out on a sidewalk in San Francisco: photo by Gabrielle Lurie for The New York Times, 19 September 2016

TAZ | by zarddroz

TAZ. Montpellier, France
.: photo by Michel Droz, 2 May 2015


Rio Theatre | by efo 
Rio Theatre, Monte Rio, California: photo by efo, 23 July 2016

Rio Theatre | by efo

Rio Theatre, Monte Rio, California: photo by efo, 23 July 2016

Rio Theatre | by efo

Rio Theatre, Monte Rio, California: photo by efo, 23 July 2016
 
Sleep addressed me familiarly, calling

She takes a third of our lives and when

we come back this way a second time
                  doesn’t recognize us

traipses to the curtains to let
              in the broken glass light of clouds

                       CLOSED

          read the sign on the dream shop door
          the battered mouse          a gray dust ball
                                               about two days dead


roared about lost innocence
to a loose sock                            on the closet floor

            ripped anew

                    out of the upside
                                  down canoe

                                                (sleep’s protection)




Investigators walk through debris near the scene of the explosion
in Manhattan: photo by Jason Szenes/European Pressphoto Agency, 17 September 2016


Investigators walk through debris near the scene of the explosion in Manhattan: photo by Jason Szenes/European Pressphoto Agency, 17 September 2016



Indian soldiers arriving at the army base, in Uri, Kashmir, that heavily armed militants stormed on Sunday: photo by Mukhtar Khan/Associated Press, 19 September 2016


Smoke rises from the Army Uri camp during Fidayeen attack in which 17 Soldiers were killed. Srinagar #UriAttack
: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 17 September 2016



This picture fills me with emotions I can't explain. To all the brave hearts, Jai Hind #UriAttack #Kashmir
: image via Virat Kohli Verified account @imVkohli, 17 September 2016

Uri terror attack

Black smoke coming out of army barracks at the Brigade which was attacked by four suspected terrorists near LoC in Uri in Kashmir's Baramulla district: photo by Times of India, 18 September 2016


An Army Soldier blocked the road where militants were hiding inside d Army Uri Brigade camp in #Kashmir #UriAttack: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 19 September 2016


 
Uri attack: Tell-all map in Pashto exposes plotters: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 19 September 2016


Two-point breach helped terrorists access Army camp: image via Times of India @timesofindia, 19 September 2016



 #UriAttack:  Pak army asks for 'actionable intelligence': image via Times of India @timesofindia, 19 September 2016

 


Army to turn on heat, asks govt to consider cross-border strikes': image via Times of India @timesofindia, 19 September 2016


Normal life remains crippled in occupied #Kashmir as #Indian authorities continue to enforce curfew
: image via PTV World @WorldPTV, 19 September 2016



Constant Crfue in #Kashmir hundreds died thousands injured no Muslim country and UN able to talk Cruel India why???: image via CAP Basit @basitashfaq21, 19 September 2016
 

CNN carried news on "rivers of animal blood" in #Bangladesh. But it ignored the "rivers of human blood" in #Kashmir
: image via Salman Raja @RSalmanMussadaq, 16 September 2016 




Funeral of 11 years old schoolboy whose body was found riddled with pellets. #Kashmir: image via Syedih @SyedIHusain They kill 11 year old and call us terrorists. Prayers for our brothers being harassed for 65 years. #UriAttacks: image via Salman Raja @RSalmanMussadaq, 17 September 2016

 

Funeral of 11 years old schoolboy whose body was found riddled with pellets. #Kashmir: image via Syedih @SyedIHusain They kill 11 year old and call us terrorists. Prayers for our brothers being harassed for 65 years. #UriAttacks
: image via Salman Raja @RSalmanMussadaq, 17 September 2016



They kill 11 year old and call us terrorists. Prayers for our brothers being harassed for 65 years. #UriAttacks
: image via Salman Raja @RSalmanMussadaq, 19 September 2016



Funeral of 11 years old Nasir Shafi in Harwan Srinagar @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 September 2016  



Funeral of 11 years old Nasir Shafi in Harwan Srinagar @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 September 2016
 

Funeral of 11 years old Nasir Shafi in Harwan Srinagar @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 September 2016

 

Funeral of civilian Abdul Qayoom in Srinagar Kashmir September 09, 2016 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 9 September 2016


 

Funeral of civilian Abdul Qayoom in Srinagar Kashmir September 09, 2016 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 9 September 2016


Prayers in Shah-e-Hamadan darasgah amid curfew #Srinagar #Kashmir September 09, 2016 @lookaround81 @ajplus @AJStream
: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 9 September 2016



Gandhi ji murder isn't true. He escaped to Dubai and now selling Mobile phone covers. RoFL
: image via Ramesh Seethur aman @rameshethu, 17 September 2016


 
A group gathers near the scene of the explosion in Manhattan: photo by Rashid Umar Abbasi/Reuters, 17 September 2016



A group gathers near the scene of the explosion in Manhattan: photo by Rashid Umar Abbasi/Reuters, 17 September 2016

Early Morning, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon | by austin granger

Early morning, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 16 September 2016

Early Morning, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon | by austin granger

Early morning, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 16 September 2016

Early Morning, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon | by austin granger

Early morning, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 16 September 2016

Palms | by efo

Palms, Mare Island: photo by efo, 17 September 2016

Palms | by efo

Palms, Mare Island: photo by efo, 17 September 2016

Palms | by efo

Palms, Mare Island.: photo by efo, 17 September 2016

Along a Road, Eastern Oregon | by austin granger

Along a Road, Eastern Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 17 September 2016

Along a Road, Eastern Oregon | by austin granger

Along a Road, Eastern Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 17 September 2016

Along a Road, Eastern Oregon | by austin granger

Along a Road, Eastern Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 17 September 2016

2 comments:

tpw said...

Full of the elusive reality of sleep, that poem----"CLOSED/read the sign on the dream shop door"---and the mouse, sock, dust, light. It's late & I'm starting to get a little drowsy. Thanks, Tom.

TC said...

Thanks, Terry.

I've always wanted to be one of those poets who can induce sleep.