Meanings and symbols
Arcane stories set in stone
Barefaced mysteries
Scattered clues to tantalise
Or was the artist laughing..
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Meanings and symbols
Arcane stories set in stone
Barefaced mysteries
Scattered clues to tantalise
Or was the artist laughing..
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Wonderful poetry and art…
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I love carvings like these, that get walked past unseen and forgotten, every day…
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Both I guess.
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🙂
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I love that last line!
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So mny of these carvings can only be ‘in’ jokes, or caricatures… and we walk past them every day, without seeing them or realising how may stories are around us. This picture was just above a doorway in Oxford.
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Interesting words, is that a photo from Oxford? 💜
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It is 🙂
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Just read all the replies and saw it was Oxford, I thought I recognised it 💜
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😀
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Reblogged this on Anita Dawes & Jaye Marie ~ Authors.
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Thank you 🙂
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Many older apartment buildings in the city have these too (they would never place such beauty on a building now). They always make me smile. (K)
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There are so many treasures just looking beyond our everyday eyeline.
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I loved your Haiku, Sue. Beautiful image. 💙
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Thank you, Gwen. ❤
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