Poetry

LOOKING THROUGH THE GLASS

Posted on 18/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.”

~ Lewis Carroll ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Candle, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, dreams, Drowning, Emotions, Flame, Glass, Infrared, Instances, Life, Love, Meanders, Melodies, Night, Nipple, Notes, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sighs, Suckle, Symphonies, Thighs, Thunder, Whispering, Wine | 1 Comment

ELIXIR

Posted on 17/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.”

~ Ernest Renan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman glass bottle taken in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Baby, Black, Bottle, Circles, Consciousness, Courage, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dizzy, Elixir, Future, Glass, Gray, Heart, Honeysuckle, Life, Lips, Midwife, Mother, Mouth, Past, Photography, Poetry, Taste, Time | 1 Comment

TOUCH THE PAST

Posted on 16/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows,

man is an invention of recent date.

And one perhaps nearing its end.”

~ Michel Foucault ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Documentation, Exposure, Find Material, Future, History, Illustration, Life, Memories, Past, Photography, Poetry, Science, Scraper, Shovel, Surveying, Time, Touch, Trowel, Years | 1 Comment

COMIC OPERA

Posted on 15/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity

is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

~ Voltaire ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman oil lamp, unearthed in a cremation burial, taken in September 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Act, Civilization, Comic Opera, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Encore, Existence, Flicker, History, Human Folly, Humans, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soot, Time | 1 Comment

ALONE

Posted on 14/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.

Everything in-between is a gift.”

~ Yul Brynner ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in May 1981.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Darkness, Death, Deathbed, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Eyes, Hand, Intimacy, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Mind, Never Never Land, Past, Photography, Poetry, Time, Touch | 1 Comment

THE OTHER DAY DOWN IN HELL

Posted on 13/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are only born once – twice is not allowed –

and it is necessary that we shall be no more,

for all eternity…”

~ Epicurus ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1983.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amusement, Asses, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fat, Fire, Flames, Heaven, Hell, Life, Nothing, Past, Pedophiles, Photography, Priests, Pussies, Shadows, Time | 1 Comment

ON

Posted on 12/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“But I just had to look having read the book,

I’d love to turn you on…”

~ John Winston Lennon ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in June 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bus, Digital Imagery, Fifteen, Forward, Further, Future, Imagination, Joint, Life, Looking Back, Memories, On, Past, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

BLACK CLOUDS DANCING

Posted on 11/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“We don’t see things as they are,

we see them as we are.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breasts, Dancing, Darkness, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, dreams, Drool, Drown, Emotions, Erotica, Face, Flat Chest, Grout, Heart, Life, Love, Moon, Night, Nightmares, Nipples, Orgasm, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Ribbons, Riddles, Rivulets, Shadows, Sound, Whisper, Woman | 1 Comment

ONE TOKE TOO MANY

Posted on 10/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“I don’t smoke weed to escape reality,

I smoke weed to enjoy reality even more.”

~ Banana ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apocalypse, Bed, Coffee, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Grass, Imagination, Life, Marijuana, Missiles, Mushroom Clouds, Number, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shit, Smoke, Toast, Toke, Traffic Jam, War | 1 Comment

COME BLOW YOUR HORN

Posted on 09/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“The point is, you can never be too greedy.”

~ Donald J. Trump ~