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SILENT MOVIES

Posted on 27/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that’s going on

from the images because the images are so strong.”

~ Monica Bellucci ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Answers, Bare Feet, Breath, Childhood, Dance, Die, Eyes, Lips, Live, Moments, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Questions, Shoes, Sidewalks, Silent Movies, Winds, Wonder, Words | 1 Comment

SEXUAL CHESS

Posted on 26/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Time is a fluid condition which has no existence

except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

There is no such thing as was – only is.”

~ William Faulkner ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Borders, Breathing, Breaths, Cigarettes, Depths, Digital Imagery, Drinking, Drop, Fantasy, Fluid, Less, Life, Love, More, Nightmare, Pagodas, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quotas, Relationship, Rubble, Ruins, Sex, Sexual Chess, Stones, Teat, Trouble, Vessel | 1 Comment

WHAT WAS IT THEN

Posted on 25/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“I cannot sing the old songs,

or dream those dreams again.”

~ Charlotte Alington Barnard ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Certainties, Communicate, Decay, Digital Imagery, Give, Gray, Judge, Jury, Key, Lingered, Noon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Song, Time, Truth, Tune, Warmth | 1 Comment

PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE

Posted on 24/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Existence is a series of footnotes

to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Dark, Day, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Gray, Head, Morning, Night, Nonexistence, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Pièce De Résistance, Pillow, Poetry | 1 Comment

SLUG SONGS

Posted on 23/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“There are three things in the world

that he held in the smallest esteem –

slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.”

~ P. G. Wodehouse ~

Digitally enhanced image created from two photos taken in Autumn 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Choke, Decadence, Deep, Digital Imagery, Distance, Eyes, Fingers, Freeze Dried, Keys, Lasting, Latin, Liquid, Livid, Love, Naked, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Salt, Satin, Slugs, Snails, Songs, Stalks, Strokes, Throat | 1 Comment

UNREALITY

Posted on 22/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“I like the unreality of your mind;

the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awake, Circles, Confusion, Corridor, Digital Imagery, Door, Dreams, Dreamtime, Eyes, Frustrations, Imagination, Joys, Paris, Perception, Perspective, Phantasmagoria, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Resurrected, Sleep, Spiral, Street Art, Subconsciousness, Time, Unreality | 1 Comment

WHAT IT COST ME

Posted on 21/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

~ Janet Todd ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barrows, Book, Calm, Cost, Digital Imagery, Feet, Fingers, Lost, Mounds, Nectar, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pore, Quiet, Rainbow, Ribbons, Sedate, Sheets, Sighs, Sin, Sleep, Sound, Tongue, Triangles, Valley, Warm, Web | 1 Comment

WASTED SPACE

Posted on 20/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Someday” is a disease that will take

your dreams to the grave with you.”

~ Timothy Ferriss ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Bleed, Chance, Circumstance, Digital Imagery, Empty, Heed, Initiative, Insignificance, Life, Opportunity, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Space, Unnoticed, Wasted | 1 Comment

BRUSHED WITH A BLUSH

Posted on 19/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“A blush is no language; only a dubious flag – signal

which may mean either of two contradictories.”

~ George Eliot ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blush, Brush, Cheeks, Dancing, Digital Imagery, Faces, Paint, Parade, Paris, People, Perspective, Photography, Podiatrists, Poetry, Procession, Ravines, Slopes, Tears, Traces, Trauma, Walls, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

HIDDEN AWAY

Posted on 18/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“If you stay here, you become lost.

And no one can find you. I like lost.”

~ Ally Condie ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Alone, Corona, Destiny, Digital Imagery, Freedom, Glass, Hidden, Idiots, Intubated, Liberty, Life, Night, Old Man, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Snide, Stupidity, Wine | 1 Comment

SILENT MOVIES

“When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that’s going on

from the images because the images are so strong.”

SEXUAL CHESS

“Time is a fluid condition which has no existence

except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

There is no such thing as was – only is.”

WHAT WAS IT THEN

“I cannot sing the old songs,

or dream those dreams again.”

PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE

“Existence is a series of footnotes

to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

SLUG SONGS

“There are three things in the world

that he held in the smallest esteem –

slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.”

UNREALITY

“I like the unreality of your mind;

the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

WHAT IT COST ME

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

WASTED SPACE

“Someday” is a disease that will take

your dreams to the grave with you.”

BRUSHED WITH A BLUSH

“A blush is no language; only a dubious flag – signal

which may mean either of two contradictories.”

HIDDEN AWAY

“If you stay here, you become lost.

And no one can find you. I like lost.”

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“When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that’s going on

from the images because the images are so strong.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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“Time is a fluid condition which has no existence

except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

There is no such thing as was – only is.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I cannot sing the old songs,

or dream those dreams again.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Existence is a series of footnotes

to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are three things in the world

that he held in the smallest esteem –

slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I like the unreality of your mind;

the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Someday” is a disease that will take

your dreams to the grave with you.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A blush is no language; only a dubious flag – signal

which may mean either of two contradictories.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If you stay here, you become lost.

And no one can find you. I like lost.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

NIGHTPOET

WELCOME TO NIGHTPOETRY

RECENT SOJOURNS

ANCIENT GALLERY (please browse)

FROZEN MOMENTS

VIEWER’S FAVOURITES

FLÂNEURS