Posts Tagged With: Ashes

a colour of dust

Posted on 21/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

~ Omar Khayyam ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Curtain, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Life, Night, Nightmare, Perspective, Plague, Poetry, Room, Sins, Smell, Sound, Stars, Vision, Voice, Wall, Whispering, Winds, Wine, Woman | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 10/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 the ghosts of things unremembered 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

ready to embrace it

Posted on 12/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes,

and pompous in the grave.”

~ Thomas Browne ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Branches, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Flesh, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Resurrection, Season, Skeletons, Trees | 1 Comment

my turn to be forgotten

Posted on 24/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

~ Joni Mitchell ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Book, Colour, Covers, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Fading, Father, Forgotten, Memories, Mother, Oblivion, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Questions, Spines, Sunlight, Thoughts, Time | 1 Comment

with a fork

Posted on 26/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

000 with a fork 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Burn, Cinders, Digital Imagery, Dish, Embers, Fire, Fork, Fossils, Life, Moon, Music, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sentences, Skeleton, Spoon, Street Art, Tide, Tune | 1 Comment

the long nightmare

Posted on 30/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

~ Francisco de Goya ~

000 the long nightmare

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Digital Imagery, Dream, Life, Nightmare, Nights, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Sleepless, Storm | 2 Comments

moirai

Posted on 27/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“O! I am fortune’s fool.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1989.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Laugh, Life, Moirai, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, The Fates, Thread, Weave, Worms | 1 Comment

the stolen years

Posted on 13/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

~ Christopher Paolini ~

000 the stolen years 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Breath, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Gasp, Hopes, Impossibility, Lives, Oblivion, Paupers, Perspective, Photography, Plans, Poetry, Projects, Pyre, Routine, Stolen, Time, Wind, Years | 1 Comment

promise

Posted on 12/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“The sweet converse of an innocent mind.”

~ John Keats ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Cinders, Dance, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Experience, Innocence, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Youth | 1 Comment

a colour of dust

Posted on 07/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,

Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”

~ Omar Khayyam ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.

slowly sinking into night

Posted on 02/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“We are made of starstuff.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in September 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Atoms, Cycle, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Night, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Rebirth, Star, Sun | 1 Comment

FOUR BEFORE TWELVE

Posted on 18/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apathy, Ashes, Blind, Burning, Carcass, Darkness, Deaf, Death, Digital Imagery, Dumb, Elephant, Embers, History, House, Humanity, Ignorance, Indifference, Legacy, Life, Overpopulation, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Time, Twelve O'Clock, Wind | 1 Comment

PRIVATE HELL

Posted on 11/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

~ Seneca ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Ashes, Burning, Cards, Chance, Coal, Darkness, Dealer, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Hell, Ignorance, Intensity, Lies, Life, Looking Glass, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Piper, Poetry, Reflections, Shadows, Truth | 1 Comment

MY MOTHER’S ASHES

Posted on 22/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Pulvis et umbra sumus.”

“We are dust and shadows.”

~ Horace ~

000 my mother's ashes

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Azaleas, Cinders, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Father, Life, Mother, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Powder, Voice, Waves | 1 Comment

STILLLEBEN

Posted on 07/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Atoms, Belief, Conversations, Death, Decanter, Digital Imagery, Distance, Energy, Father, Glass, Life, Mother, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smoke, Space, Time, Vase, Wings | 1 Comment

CONTINUES TO CONFUSE

Posted on 26/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Confusion will be my epitaph

as I crawl a cracked and broken path,

if we make it we can all sit back and laugh,

but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying…”

~ Peter Sinfield ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abuse, Ashes, Beds, Boulevard, Braids, Breadcrumb, Chaos, Confuse, Cows, Crazy, Crooning, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Feelings, Feet, Finger, Floor, Hair, Mattresses, Mooing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slow Motion, Steers, Thistle, Thorns, Tide | 1 Comment

A YEAR OF RAIN

Posted on 11/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

~ John Steinbeck

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at a Roman burial excavation in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Dancing, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Earth, Graves, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Sleep, Water, Year | 1 Comment

THE STOLEN YEAR

Posted on 09/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

~ Christopher Paolini ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Breath, Creativity, Death, Dreams, Emotions, Gasp, Hopes, Impossibility, Lives, Oblivion, Paupers, Perspective, Photography, Plans, Poetry, Projects, Pyre, Routine, Stolen, Time, Wind, Year | 1 Comment

STRATEGY

Posted on 11/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the interior of the West Kennet Long Barrow taken in England in July 1983.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Barrows, Blackness, Darkness, Deviance, Digital Imagery, Distance, Drank, Dribbles, Drippings, Drumbeats, Fuse, Mystery, Numbers, Passages, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Safety, Slavery, Slippers, Strategy, Swindles, Thimbles, Thread | 1 Comment

THAT ONCE CAST HER SHADOW

Posted on 31/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

~ Jack Lemmon ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the excavation of a Roman cremation burial taken in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Body, Bones, Cinders, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreamtime, Embers, Journey, Oblivion, Offerings, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pyre, Shadow, Sleep, Underworld, Urn | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Ashes

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

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Like this:

“Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes,

and pompous in the grave.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

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Like this:

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

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Like this:

“O! I am fortune’s fool.”

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Like this:

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The sweet converse of an innocent mind.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,

Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are made of starstuff.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Pulvis et umbra sumus.”

“We are dust and shadows.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Confusion will be my epitaph

as I crawl a cracked and broken path,

if we make it we can all sit back and laugh,

but I fear tomorrow I’ll be crying…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

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