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just a scar

Posted on 27/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”

~ Leonard Cohen ~

000 just a scar

Photo taken in April 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black Iced, Chord, Cold, Counterfeit, Dumbfounded, Emotions, Fade, Feelings, Imagination, Interlude, Life, Love, Lovers, Mist, Mornings, Nights, Noisy, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pigments, Plums, Poetry, Prunes, Shadows, Silence, Smile, Spring, Starless, Unfathomed, Unwished, Void, Waiting | 1 Comment

wooden heart

Posted on 26/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 wooden heart 1

Photo taken in October 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Broken, Curse, Emotion, Heart, History, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Talisman, Tattered, Time, Token, Torn, Trees, Wooden Heart | 1 Comment

chairman meow

Posted on 25/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”

~ Mao Zedong ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canines, Cats, Communist, Conqueror, Defender, Downtrodden, Feline, Furball, Haikus, Icon, Liberator, Litter Box, Little Red Book, Mao Zedong, Meow, Mouser, Paris, Paws, Peasant, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purr, Revolutionary, Savior, Street Art, Wailer | 1 Comment

a dream within a dream

Posted on 24/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Days are stringed instruments

and every one strikes a different note.”

~ Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander ~

000 a dream within a dream 1

Photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dreams, False, Folly, Haikus, Invention, Life, Paradise, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time, Touch, True, Waste, Worlds | 1 Comment

sa vie secrète

Posted on 23/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“There is no greater agony than

bearing an untold story inside you.”

~ Maya Angelou ~

000 sa vie secrète 1

Photo taken in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Corners, Death, Dreams, Genes, Joys, Life, Love, Nightmares, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainy Day, Sa Vie Secrète, Secret Life, Secrets, Shadows, Tears, Time | 1 Comment

earth day

Posted on 22/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together… all things connect.”

~ Chief Seattle ~

000 earth day 1

Photo taken somewhere in northern France in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Beauty, Clouds, Death, Earth, Earth Day, Environment, Extermination, Extinction, Fauna, Flora, France, Future, History, Horizon, Humanity, Life, Nature, Past, Photography, Plants, Poetry | 1 Comment

holier than thou

Posted on 21/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

~ Robert Green Ingersoll ~

000 holier than thou 1

Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bigots, Choice, Holier Than Thou, Life, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religious Bigots, Self-Righteous, Shut Up | 1 Comment

these days

Posted on 20/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“These days I seem to think a lot about

the things that I forgot to do…”

~ Jackson Browne ~

Photo taken in 1990.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Calendar, Clueless, Clues, Days, Death, Degeneration, Forgetfulness, Graying, Imagine, Jungle, Life, Mirror, Nearsighted, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sojourn | 1 Comment

an unlisted number

Posted on 19/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.”

~ George Sand ~

000 an unlisted number 1

Photo taken in September 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Life, Oblivion, Parents, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Telephone, Unlisted Number, Voices | 1 Comment

unrepentant

Posted on 18/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

000 unrepentant

Photo taken in April 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Branches, Fingers, Labyrinth, Library, Life, Lithe, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Revealed, Ribbons, Riddle, Scrolls, Silence, Skins, Snakes, Trees, Unraveled, Unread, Unrepentant, Unsolved, Unwritten, Wilderness, Winnowing, Wisps | 1 Comment

where the time goes

Posted on 17/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

~ Henry Austin Dobson ~

000 where the time goes 1

Photo taken in November 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clay, Cosmos, Death, Dust, Experiences, Life, Maw, Memories, Mold, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Steps, Time, Winds | 1 Comment

gramophone

Posted on 16/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end.

The milestones into headstones change,

Neath every one a friend.”

~ James Russell Lowell ~

000 gramophone1

Photo taken in November 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Au Revoir, Beard, Carrots, Child, Cucumbers, Death, Drowned, Echoes, Frigidity, Gramophone, Grandmother, Life, Lips, Love, Opera Glove, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Piano, Poetry, Room, Score, Screams, Silence, Silent Film, Slaughter, Sour Wine, Swaddled, Wide Eyed | 1 Comment

she

Posted on 15/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 she 1

Photo taken by a friend in 1972.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Audacity, Consciousness, Creativity, Cusp, Distance, Ebony, Expressions, Honed, Imagination, Inspires, Intense, Language, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plunge, Poetry, Razor-Edged, Rivets, Sable, Salacious, Sensuous, Sentences, She, Silence, Starstuff, Tattoos, Tenaciousness, Vulvar, Whetted, Words | 1 Comment

danseuse

Posted on 14/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

000 danseuse 2

Photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Applause, Choreography, Curtain, Dance, Encore, Heart, Life, Lines, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rope, Soliloquy, Sorrow, Stage, Theatrics | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 13/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 the ghosts of things unremembered 2

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

plucked

Posted on 12/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 plucked 1

Photo taken in February 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blossom, Bower, Desires, Disguise, Eyes, Flower, Fool, Hologram, Lamb, Love, Passion, Perspective, Petal, Photography, Plucked, Poetry, Slaughter | 1 Comment

be we

Posted on 11/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 be we 2

Photo taken in the early 1980’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Children, Clowns, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Food, Fools, Future, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lies, Life, Merit, Morals, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Puppets, Shills, Skills, Wisdom | 1 Comment

biblycal twistology

Posted on 10/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously;

but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”

~ Aleister Crowley ~

000 biblycal twistology1

Photo taken in May 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adam and Eve, Bible, Bulb, Clever, Forbidden Fruit, Garden, Landlord, Life, Oaf, Paradise, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Snake, Sneaky, Temptress | 1 Comment

rapture

Posted on 09/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Think of how stupid the average person is

and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.”

~ George Carlin ~

000 rapture

Photo taken in April 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absolute Truth, Baseless Beliefs, Bullshit, Celestial Event, Eclipse, Fallacy, Idiots, Malarkey, Perspective, Photography, Planet, Planetary Alignment, Poetry, Rapture, Scientific Research, Stupidity, Time, World | 1 Comment

the concept of glass

Posted on 08/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

~ Robertson Davies ~

000 the concept of glass 2

Photo taken in May 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aperture, Comprehension, Concept, Evolving, Fly, Freedom, Glass, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learning, Mysteries, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Universe, Window | 1 Comment

“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”

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“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.”

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“In waking a tiger, use a long stick.”

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“Days are stringed instruments

and every one strikes a different note.”

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“There is no greater agony than

bearing an untold story inside you.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together… all things connect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“These days I seem to think a lot about

the things that I forgot to do…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.”

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“Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end.

The milestones into headstones change,

Neath every one a friend.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously;

but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Think of how stupid the average person is

and then realize that half of them are stupider than that.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

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