Travellers on the platform of Hollands Spoor, The Hague - Hans von Faber du Faur (1863-1940) - public domain sitting by the tracks the...

Sami on skis in norhtern lights - Frants Diderik Bøe (1820–1891) - public domain winter’s ink has spilled and spread and now is when we...

Photo Piqsels.com — public domain license autumn child born naked as the season’s trees cradled in a bed of rotting leaves there’s a...

La Toussaint — All Saints’ Day — Emile Friant (1863–1932) — public domain first days of November and Flanders’ graveyards bloom to the...

In Autumn Woods - Winslow Homer (1836-1910) - public domain watch the chaos of the wind-swept autumn leaves swirling in the yard trying...

paying my respects to mother nature Worthington glacier, Alaska - photo by authour© One of Four nothing withstands my infinite strength...

Church Graveyard, Barfleur, Normandy - photo by author © often do I come here to rest my hands on these time-tilted tombs cracked and...

Old postcard picture of the Trench of Death, Flanders, Belgium — public domain In my lifetime, I’ve been to these two disparate frontline...

Das Geheimnis (The Secret) — Felix Nussbaum (1904, Osnabrück–1944, Auschwitz) — public domain Listen. Listen! Can’t you hear? The old...

The Tower of Babel — Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/1530–1569) — public domain July 1983 — when AIDS first raised its ugly epidemic head...

Alpine Kitchen — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) — public domain they were cold days those old days when we braved the winters in short...

The Blind Beggar — Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884) — public domain new moon on the rise and on this dark and empty beach I rage and rage...

La blanchisseuse — Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) — public domain mother hangs the linen and god how empty do I look pinned up by the cuffs...

Farmer with a Pitchfork — Winslow Homer (1836–1910) — public domain slipping into life’s late afternoon I watch my shadow grow and bloat...

Girl Singing to a Lute — Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) — public domain Dear friends, if you agree with me, that poetry is the...

Mother at her Child’s Bed — Christian Krohg (1852–1925) — public domain — this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution...

The Beggar — Edvard Munch (1863–1944) — public domain roaming the streets of Paris like some latter-day Hemingway homeless and down on...

Fiolspelare (The Violinist )— Pekka Halonen (1865-1933) — public domain no violin is made of a single type of wood and what the master...

Three Children Near a Road Sign — Tadeusz Makowski (1882–1932) — public domain pried loose by rain and wind the signpost at the...

Die Lebensstufen — The Stages of Life — Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) — public domain unfurl and hoist your tattered sails steer the...