Gray
The land of nowhere
Found tiptoeing
Between
Great heavy shadows
Holding hostage
Fearful what if’s
And the light
Bare naked brightness
Secrets once
Owned in terror
No more
Have power
Release
Peace
Freedom
Life
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March 7, 2020 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #light, #nyc, #peace, #poetry, #portrait, #power, #shadow | Leave a comment
The breeze
Carried
My ancestor’s prayers
Eternal words of
Blessing
Breathed in
My first infant cry
Twined
With my DNA
We are forever one
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September 26, 2019 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #africa, #brooklynphotographer, #dna, #fashion, #naids, #naidsfashion, #naturallight, #photography, #poetry, #youmakemyshuttergoclick | Leave a comment
Studying myself
From a view
Of self-peace
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September 3, 2019 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #brooklynphotographer, #naturallight, #peace, #poetry, #portrait, #reflections | Leave a comment
Very little
Of myself
Have I shared
With you
In fact
I’ve even kept
Myself from myself
Some days I’ve
Felt so betrayed
So overlooked
But,
My thought’s
Have been terribly misinformed
Thinking I should be seen
When I’ve barely shone
What light
Did I give
You to follow?
You can’t behold
A woman
Who’s dimmed
Her spirit
To obscure dusk
Naturally,
She’s nowhere
To be found
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August 28, 2019 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #aftertrauma, #bnw, #brooklynphotographer, #darkness, #healing, #light, #love, #naturallight, #nyc, #reflections, #seeingmyselfinanewlight, #selflove, #self_portrait | Leave a comment
There’s layers to my depths
And depths to my layers
Arrangements of silence, sounds, letters, words
Building, stacking, mounting
One pause, one syllable, one moment at a time
Spinning out from
My soul’s innermost core
Bursting into life
The moment they touch air
Traveling through galaxies
Beyond the universe
Beyond time
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March 22, 2019 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #actor, #color, #fashion, #nycphotographer, #poetry, #portrait | Leave a comment
You will tell everyone
How you prayed
And how I answered
Love,
God
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July 19, 2018 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #beauty, #brooklynbridge, #canon, #fashion, #godspromise, #love, #music, #nyc, #passion, #photographerlife, #poetry, #portrait, #professionalviolinist, #styleandgrace, #violin | Leave a comment
Look!
You see?
When you serve me
I will put you in places
You could not otherwise go
I will place you
In palaces you can’t afford
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July 18, 2018 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #beauty, #canonphotographer, #color, #fashion, #godfirst, #godspromises, #love, #poetry, #portrait, #style | Leave a comment
I thought
About contemplating
Then decided
Thinking too much
Is overrated…
Seize the day!
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June 22, 2018 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz!, Uncategorized | Leave a comment
My love
I wrote
Our story
Set us up
Under dazzling lights
Camera action
Baby our passion
Everyone’s gonna see
Us as Hollywood magic
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December 11, 2017 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #canon, #hollywood, #justme, #self_portrait | Leave a comment
One day it became
Crystal clear
In the split
Of a split second
My heart spoke
My purpose
God’s destiny
For what I am to be
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June 22, 2017 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #brooklynphotographer, #canon, #capturedbybeth, #fashion, #jamesbond, #mensfashion, #portrait, #urbanphotographer, #youmakemyshuttergoclick | 1 Comment
Encased
Within my beauty
A silent grain of pain
But my God
Layered
Love, upon love, upon love
Smoothing hurt into
Iridescent sheen
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June 17, 2017 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #brooklynphotographer, #capturedbybeth, #fashion, #fashionnyc, #lace, #pearls, #stylenyc, #urbanphotographer, #vintange, #youmakemyshuttergoclick | Leave a comment
Good morning sunshine
Up & out & at ’em
And feeling very fine
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October 25, 2016 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #canon, #fashion, #mensfashion, #nyc, #photography, #portrait, #style, #suitedandbooted | Leave a comment
Des yeux qui font baisser les miens, Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche, Voila le portrait sans retouche, De l’homme auquel j’appartiens.
Quand il me prend dans ses bras, Il me parle tous bas, Je vois la vie en rose.
Il me dit des mots d’amour, Des mots de tous les jours, Et ca me fait quelque chose.
Il est entre dans mon coeur, Une part de bonheur, Dont je connais la couse.
-Edith Piaf
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September 14, 2016 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #canon, #color, #fashion, #lavieenrose, #nyfw, #photography, #portrait, #streetfashion, #streetstlye | Leave a comment
My little girl dreams
Are still cherished
By my woman’s heart
One day
Very soon
I know
They will be
My reality
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July 22, 2016 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz!, Uncategorized | Tags: #brooklyn, #canon, #color, #fashion, #photography, #poetry, #portrait, #style, #zara | Leave a comment
And then the day came
When I stopped
I stopped
Dancing for a song
That never paid me dignity
And on that day
I said
I am significant
Then I reached out
And I took it
I took my worth
I took my grace
I took my respectability
I wrote my own song
This song
I can dance to
Proud
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July 22, 2016 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz!, Uncategorized | Tags: #brooklyn, #canon, #color, #dancer, #model, #motivation, #photography, #poetry, #portrait, #streetart | Leave a comment
“Who will buy this wonderful morning? Such a sky you never did see!… Who will buy my sweet red roses?… Who will tie it up with a ribbon, and put it in a box for me?” – Oliver
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May 23, 2016 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #canon, #color, #flowersforsale, #photography, #portrait, #travel, #ukraine | Leave a comment
Every story
I’ve ever lived
Recorded by my
Beating heart
Speaks no language
Man can decode
Unless he looks
Into my eyes
Those windows
To the pages
Of my soul
It would take
His lifetime
And then some
To read
Carefully
Through them all
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January 18, 2016 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz!, Uncategorized | Tags: #blackandwhite, #canon, #love, #monochrom, #nyc, #photography, #poetry, #portrait | Leave a comment
Limits?
No thank you.
I’ll pass.
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November 6, 2014 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #beach, #beachbeauty, #blackandwhite, #canon, #color, #model, #photography, #poetry, #portrait | Leave a comment
Don’t need you to be perfect
All I need is you to be the perfect man for me
Love me enough
To not want to live without my loving
You be the present & future
The one who makes my heartbeat sing
My smile glow
Secure in knowing you’re for real
No matter which way life goes
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September 11, 2014 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #beautiful, #blackandwhite, #bride, #canon, #love, #monochrome, #photography, #poetry, #portrait, #wedding | Leave a comment
I’m gonna love you
Love you like never before
Straight outta my heart
Throw back my head
Kick up my heels
Laugh from the bottom of my soul
Fully love living this life
Free
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August 30, 2014 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #beach, #brooklyn, #canon, #life, #love, #muscian, #nyc, #photography, #poetry, #portrait, #singer, #summer | 1 Comment
Gnawing soft insides out
Ulcers of regret
Mourning
Tidal waves of acid to the soul
Desperate despair
Devouring
Famine in the belly
Once gorged with love
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June 9, 2014 | Categories: Behind the Scenes, Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #actor, #behindthescenes, #blacknwhite, #brooklyn, #canon, #film, #monochrome, #portrait | Leave a comment
On my A game
Switching things up
Making moves
Smooth & sharp
Success is the groove
I’m feeling
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November 13, 2013 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #brooklyn, #canon, #men, #nyc, #photography, #poetry, #portrait, #street_fashion | Leave a comment
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freeedom.” – Malcolm X
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May 7, 2013 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #blackpower, #fashion, #freedom, #nyc, #portrait, #style | 1 Comment
Piece by piece
Assembling my dream
Riveting fragments together
Creating an original
Life to live
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April 6, 2013 | Categories: Portraits with Pzazz! | Tags: #brooklyn, #dreams, #photography, #poetry, #robot, #sci-fi | Leave a comment
On my A game