Poetry

FOUR FRAGMENTS

Posted on 20/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“A man is a very small thing,

and the night is very large and full of wonders.”

~ Edward Plunkett ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Glücksburg, Germany on the Baltic Sea in Summer 1984.

NIGHT STALKER

Posted on 19/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bordel, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dishes, Life, Night, Night Stalker, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleepwalker, Street Sweeper, Streetwalker, Whores | 1 Comment

WEE

Posted on 18/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“It takes a long time to become young.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Palma, the Canary Islands in November 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Birth, Canary Islands, Cradle, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Emergence, Free, Growing, Gurgle, Innocence, Jungle, Leaves, Life, Liquid, Past, Photography, Poetry, Rime, Scribble, Slaughter, Slobber, Time | 2 Comments

OBSCURED BY CLOUDS

Posted on 17/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”

~Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples taken in August 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Breath, Breezes, Clouds, Compass, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, dreams, Encore, Horizon, Life, Memories, Moon, Mythos, Navigation, Night, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stars, Storms, Summer, Tragicomedy | 1 Comment

A BASKET OF PLENTY

Posted on 16/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Where ignorance is bliss,

‘Tis folly to be wise.”

~ Thomas Gray ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman wall painting in Herculaneum taken there in August 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Apogee, Basket, Bliss, Breath, Darkness, Decibels, Digital Imagery, Dirges, Dogma, Heart, Ignorance, Incantations, Magician, Moon, Necromancer, Night, Painting, Past, Perigee, Perihelion, Photography, Plenty, Poetry, Shadows, Spells, Stars | 1 Comment

SINGING BOWL

Posted on 15/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“The knower of the mystery of sound

knows the mystery of the whole universe.”

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Beauty, Digital Imagery, Dimensions, Emotions, Heart, Life, Mind, Music, Passion, Perfection, Photography, Poetry, Sensation, Sensuality, Singing Bowl, Song, Soul, Spirit, Voice, Whisper, Wind | 2 Comments

YAWNS BACK AT ME IN YELLOW

Posted on 14/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast”

~ Bob Dylan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bawl, Bellow, Bleat, Digital Imagery, Dream, Drink, Drown, Gutters, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspiration, Photography, Poetry, Precipitation, Rain, Roof, Salamander, Scream, Slime, Sweat, Water, Yellow | 1 Comment

THE SPIDER’S LAST NIGHT OF SPLENDOUR

Posted on 13/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Poetry is a fresh morning spider-web telling a story

of moonlit hours of weaving and waiting during a night.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1983.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Painter, Photography, Poetry, Primer, Spider, Spider Web | 1 Comment

O TROJAN GOAT

Posted on 12/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“This life of ours…

human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow:

along comes a goat, eats it up – no more flower.”

~ Anton Chekhov ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Babble, Brail, Cloven, Contrition, Critters, Digital Imagery, Disposition, Freighter, Goat, Himalayas, Hooved, Jingles, Jitters, Jive, Mescaline, Mountain, Photography, Poetry, Throat | 1 Comment

EVER FURTHER

Posted on 11/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Further…”

~ Ken Kesey ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Atmosphere, Bird, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Freedom, Further, Life, Lightning, Night, Photography, Pinions, Poetry, Sky, Stars, Wings | 1 Comment