Paris

WINDOW

Posted on 22/03/2018 by Nightpoet

“There is not a particle of life

which does not bear poetry within it.”

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Café, Colour, Digital Imagery, Jazz, Libretto, Life, Literature, Music, Musicians, Painter, Paris, Performance, Photography, Poetry, Portraits, Pottery, Sound, Stage, Words | 1 Comment

BISOUS

Posted on 13/03/2018 by Nightpoet

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of lipstick kisses left on Oscar Wilde’s grave in Paris in August 2015.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bisous, Cats, Clouds, Conversation, Desires, Digital Imagery, Dogs, Dreams, Full Moon, Heart, Kisses, Life, Love, Music, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Thoughts, Time, Youth | 1 Comment

LE CŒUR FRAGILE

Posted on 24/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“The heart was made to be broken.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Broken Heart, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fragments, Ghost, Heart, Hope, Love, Pain, Paper Boat, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Shore, Street Art, Tide | 1 Comment

L’HORIZON EST BEAU

Posted on 23/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Beauty, Cage, Clouds, Contamination, Death, Deception, Digital Imagery, Filth, Horizon, Lies, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Street Art, Wall, Wasteland | 1 Comment

DERRIÈRE TOI

Posted on 21/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world

because even your own shadow

leaves you when you are in darkness.”

~ Ibn Taymiyyah ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Behind, Derrière, Evil, Eye, Heart, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art, Trust | 1 Comment

A BEAST WITHOUT A NAME

Posted on 18/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“A woolly man without a face

and a beast without a name…”

~Walter Becker and Donald Fagen ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Animal, Beast, Creature, Monster, Mystery, Name, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Science, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

AMERICANS LOVE THEIR GUNS

Posted on 17/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Gun violence is real.

People don’t come back.”

~ Stevie Wonder ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Americans, Apple Pie, Assault Weapons, Childrern, Death, Digital Imagery, Freedom, Guns, Murder, Paris, Photography, Poetry, The Flag, Violence | 1 Comment

VOODOO

Posted on 16/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“There’s a bit of magic in everything,

and then some loss to even things out.”

~ Lou Reed ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ballyhoo. Cockatoo, Blue, Digital Imagery, Fondue, Honeydew, Magic, New, Old Brown Shoe, Owl, Paris, Peru, Photography, Poetry, Timbuktu, Voodoo | 1 Comment

L’AVANT-GARDE

Posted on 12/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased

only by a revolution in permanence.”

~ Harold Rosenberg ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Art, Artistes, Avant-Garde, Consciousness, Creativity, Dance, Digital Imagery, Eccentric, Experimental, Film, Literature, Modern Art, Painting, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Progressive, Sculpture, Spirit, Street Art, Universe | 1 Comment

SASSY

Posted on 11/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“When I’m good, I’m very good.

But when I’m bad I’m better.”

~ Mae West ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Breasts, Emotions, Eyelashes, Fresh, Heart, Love, Paris, Passion, Pert, Photography, Poetry, Sassy, Sex, Street Art | 3 Comments

THE INHERITORS

Posted on 10/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Earth has its boundaries,

but human stupidity is limitless.”

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Apathetic, Balance, Birth, Clueless, Consequences, Death, Evolution, Existence, Harmony, Hatred, History, Ignorance, Inheritors, Injustice, Life, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Selfishness, Shortsightedness, Street Art, Stupidity, Unaware, Violence, War | 1 Comment

KARMA COLLECTS ITS DUE

Posted on 09/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“When dictatorship is a fact,

revolution becomes a right.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Blood, Cadavers, Death, Digital Imagery, Ego, Fire, Flames, History, Life, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Politicians, Politics, Proletariat, Rabble, Revolution | 1 Comment

WILDER FEGER TAKE TWO

Posted on 06/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Wild women don’t get the blues.”

~ Ida Cox ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Bliss, Devil's Curls, Digital Imagery, Lips, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Sweep, Teats, Wild Sweeper, Wild Women, Wilder Feger, Youth | 1 Comment

PINK SKULL

Posted on 05/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Nothing is worse
than active ignorance.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Babushkas, Charlatans, Cheeseburgers, Children, Democracy, Digital Imagery, Future, History, Infrastructure, Juice, Life, Mincemeat, Paris, Past, Photography, Pink, Poetry, Politics, Pussies, Skull, Street Art, Teats | 1 Comment

ALIVENESS

Posted on 04/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“There are no inanimate objects…”

~ Barbara Grizutti Harrison ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Childhood, Digital Imagery, Energy, Fantasy, Heart, Imagination, Innocence, Inorganic, Life, Love, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Sentience, Sentiment, Spirit, Time | 1 Comment

MAKE ART NOT WAR

Posted on 03/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Art holds fast when all else is lost.”

~ German Proverb ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Art, Brush, Gray, Life, Love, Painting, Paris, Passion, Pen, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Stubble, War, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

GRAY GRAU GRIS

Posted on 02/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Life is a wretched gray Saturday,

but it has to be lived through.”

~ Anthony Burgess ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2017.

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Cold, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Grau, Gray, Gris, Hair, Heart, Love, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Snow, Spring, Wind, Winter | 1 Comment

RARA AVIS

Posted on 07/01/2018 by Nightpoet

“Most people are other people.

Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,

their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.“

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Differences, Digital Imagery, History, Individualism, Life, Masses, Paris, Passion, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rara Avis, Rare Bird, Unique | 1 Comment

THE LEAP

Posted on 06/01/2018 by Nightpoet

“All of life is the exercise of risk.”

~ William Sloane Coffin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Dimensions, Door, Dreams, Emotions, Imagination, Life, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Shadows, Street Art | 1 Comment

AGAINST

Posted on 05/01/2018 by Nightpoet

“Power tends to corrupt,

and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

~ Lord Acton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Against, Bread And Circuses, Conservative, Corporate, Death, Digital Imagery, Greed, Homophobic, La Bécane, Oligarchic, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plutocratic, Poetry, Politics, Racist, Resist, Resistance, Street Art, Stupidity, Theocratic, Tyranny, Tyrant | 1 Comment

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which does not bear poetry within it.”

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“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

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“The heart was made to be broken.”

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“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

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“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world

because even your own shadow

leaves you when you are in darkness.”

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Like this:

“A woolly man without a face

and a beast without a name…”

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Like this:

“Gun violence is real.

People don’t come back.”

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Like this:

“There’s a bit of magic in everything,

and then some loss to even things out.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased

only by a revolution in permanence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When I’m good, I’m very good.

But when I’m bad I’m better.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Earth has its boundaries,

but human stupidity is limitless.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When dictatorship is a fact,

revolution becomes a right.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Wild women don’t get the blues.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Nothing is worse than active ignorance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are no inanimate objects…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Art holds fast when all else is lost.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a wretched gray Saturday,

but it has to be lived through.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Most people are other people.

Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions,

their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.“

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All of life is the exercise of risk.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Power tends to corrupt,

and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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