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I'm going to make this an illustration friday entry for the prompt afterwards-
in the sense that this is after the phantom ship sails away, 
and the Mariner is left with the consequences of his actions.
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Ancestral Voices

And mid this tumult Kubla heard from far

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

- Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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This is a beautiful image, there is a story here

Ancestral Voices

Woman Wailing

But Oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

Down the hill athwart a cedarn cover!

A savage place as holy and enchanted

As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted

By woman wailing for her demon lover!

Photographed in Golden Gate Park

Kubla Khan

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure dome decree

Where Alph, the sacred river ran

Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea.

–Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This was photographed at Academy of Science, also drawn there without reference so I 'm going to use that as an excuse for the Vasco Da Gama-ish appearance of the great Kahn. Coleridge's poem was evidently based on Marco Polo's account of Kublai's hunting grounds/park attached to his palace. I will be imagining some incidents from his life this month. Most of them will be the altered photos I have been showing.