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THE HEART TORN OUT

Posted on 01/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“There is a wisdom of the head, and…a wisdom of the heart.”

~ Charles Dickens ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bleed, Breath, Cloud, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hands, Heart, Kisses, Life, Lines, Love, Lunacy, Need, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Price, Renaissance Man, Sappho, Shivering, Silence, Soul, Stars, Tallow, Tongue, Touch, Trust, Truth | 1 Comment

BENEATH HIS FEET

Posted on 30/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Semper bonus homo tiro est.”

“An honest man is always a child.”

~ Socrates ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Deceit, Digital Imagery, Feet, Ground, Honesty, Lies, Life, Man, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, World | 1 Comment

DANCE AWAY THEIR DAYS

Posted on 29/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Baldness, Balloon, Banana, Beauty, Birds, Branches, Buck Tooth, Buttercup, Dance, Dandelions, Dandruff, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Flavours, Life, May, Mazes, Meadows, Metronomes, Moon, Music, Notes, Nut Brown, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Scalps, Sky, Song, Spring, Squirrels, Sunlight, Tails, Trees, Wet Nosed | 1 Comment

DEVIL’S DOPPELBOCK

Posted on 28/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by an unknown artist taken in September 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bottle, Brew, Darkness, Death, Devil, Digital Imagery, Doppelbock, Hand, Hell, Hollow, Laughter, Life, Lips, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pilgrim, Poetry, Rock, Shadows, Sip, Trees | 1 Comment

THUMPER

Posted on 27/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Enhanced image developed from a digital painting created in Spring 2000.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bait, Beauty, Bones, Breasts, Cheeks, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Fishing, Gasping, Gills, Hands, Kisses, Lean, Light, Limbs, Lines, Love, Lungs, Moon, Moonlight, Night, Nipples, Opiate, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Ribs, Sex, Sigh, Skin, Sleep, Squirm, Time, Touch, Worm | 1 Comment

NO FINER MAGIC

Posted on 26/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

~ Standing Bear ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Glauberg, Germany in July 1986.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Browns, Colour, Dark, Deep, Digital Imagery, Greens, Heart, Imagination, Life, Magic, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Valleys, Wonder | 1 Comment

SAXOPHONES

Posted on 25/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Beauty, Beeswax, Breath, Carp, Cosmic Pie, Cuttlebone, Death, Digital Imagery, Down, Fading, Floor, Friends, Heavenly, Home, Horror, In, Life, Lips, Mica, Mind, Music, Out, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Saxophones, Sky, Sound, Spiritual, Symphony, Trees. Breeze, Up, Walls, Wild | 1 Comment

WORLDLY POSSESSIONS

Posted on 24/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“A poet is, before anything else,

a person who is passionately in love with language.”

~ W. H. Auden ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dimension, Forever, Imagination, Incomprehension, Language, Life, Lines, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Possessions, Procession, Sentence, Stunted, Words, Worldly | 1 Comment

MANIFESTO

Posted on 23/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“The streets were dark with something more then night.”

~ Raymond Chandler ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Virginia in November 2004.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boardwalk, Dances, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Drizzle, Feet, Fishes, Fog, Imagination, Life, Night, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Railroad Tie, Rain, Riddle, Sandwiches, Sea, Season, Seaweed, Sleep, Streets, Tea, Wheels | 3 Comments

ONE MUSHROOM MORE

Posted on 22/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Existence has overpowered Books.

Today I slew a Mushroom.”

~ Emily Dickinson ~