douglas brent smith

Behind The Birthday Van For a while I was attracted to black & white images for the raw material of my collages. In this case, I glued what I was working on to a colorful sample of stationery. Happy Birthday, wherever you are. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ you may use this image for non-commercial purposes. please cite it as follows: collage: Behind The Birthday Van (c) 2016 douglas brent smith

Alphabet Soup This is both a collage and a creative writing prompt. For a time, I experimented with creating different versions of a collage using a copy machine to duplicate the base, and then making changes in it. Sort of like a very slow motion movie. Or perhaps an indulgence. It's fun. Enjoy. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ you may use this image for non-commercial purposes. please cite it as follows: collage: Alphabet Soup (c) 2016 douglas brent smith

All Hands On Deck _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ you may use this image for non-commercial purposes. please cite it as follows: collage: All Hands On Deck (c) 2016 douglas brent smith

(c) 2016 Douglas Brent Smith Size: 81/2 x 11" You may use this image as long as you credit the artist with this notation: "Collage by Douglas Brent Smith, (c) 2016"

Photograph: douglas brent smith (c) 2016 You may use this photo to your hearts delight.

even with the world falling apart all i can think about is keeping us together is bringing us together doing over chances to choose love that endures purely forming storms of passion, not disappointment and pleasures we'd treasure not measure against impossible pondering such notions preoccupy me even as you chasten me to let go of them and declare we're over that we're on the same page on so many things singing similar songs yet wrongly irregular on this         i must (don't judge)         simply kiss you again. again this. a kiss you and me and see where this leads us. and please, trust me on this i have your best interests at heart and my heart             so full of you throbs incessantly still agreed, we see this                    differently and so i'll wait and take moment by careful moment time with you until i'm...

it was everything i had inside me given to you a gift you refused, to scare me to scar me to drop me over that cliff, that curb wanting to touch you to kiss you to giggle in the sand but you let go of my hand and oh oh oh you had warned me the storm would be rough and wow did you signal it would not be enough and crap did it happen i chased without fear but ghostlike in vapor desire disappeared and so like a dark fog neglected to stand you held and then fell and let go of my hand (c) 2016 douglas brent smith

Random still life and current mood. photo by douglas brent smith Ok to use this photo. Please notate it: photo by douglas brent smith, 2016. 

mp3 file: Way Past Getting Old

i am powerfully attracted to strong coffee, strong whiskey and strong women and so far strong coffee has never hurt me although i may drown myself in it, to stay up thru the night to face the morning without her because trying to sleep is stupid and trying to get over it is bad advice so what's to do? when the person i'd ask asks for space? could i be the strong one resilient, resolved? remembering some mysteries will never be solved so make me a strong one with whiskey and black and i will be waiting when that woman comes back -- douglas brent smith (c) 2016

created 12 march 2012 reality plunges into the murky pools of the mind. it doesn't matter what anyone was thinking because it was fun while it lasted. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ you may use this image for non-commercial purposes. please cite it as follows: collage: you were there (c) 2016 douglas brent smith

created 12 march 2012 and 10 june 2012 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ those times we spent in the kitchen were special and rare but the feast is over and there's nothing but a big mess to clean up. you may use this image for non-commercial purposes. please cite it as follows: collage: there was a problem in the kitchen  (c) 2016 douglas brent smith

created 12 march 2012 when there was still a hope that this relationship would work. i still like the picture. i still miss that dream. would you like a cup of coffee? _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ you may use this image for non-commercial purposes. please cite it as follows: collage: the beautiful dream (c) 2016 douglas brent smith

te created 12 march 2012 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ you may use this image for non-commercial purposes. please cite it as follows: collage: tell me what you want to hear  (c) 2016 douglas brent smith

created 25 march 2001 i've often toyed with the idea of living in a space that had a store front that could be my studio, theater, coffee house, clubhouse, training center. still working on that idea (but this collage is done!) _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ you may use this image for non-commercial purposes. please cite it as follows: collage: open for business (c) 2016 douglas brent smith