Posts Tagged With: Beauty

BEWARE ULYSSES, BEWARE

Posted on 12/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Is it the singer or the song…?”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Mediterranean between Crete and Santorini in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Beware, Crag, Death, Digital Imagery, Madness, Mediterranean, Moon, Oars, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Sirens, Song, Ulysses | 1 Comment

LINE, FORM AND BEAUTY

Posted on 10/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“I have nature and art and poetry,

and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a seagull taken in the Bay of Naples off the coast of Ischia, Italy in 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beauty, Borrow, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Form, Life, Line, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time | 1 Comment

SOLSTICE STONES

Posted on 21/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned

that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

~ Albert Camus ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at Stonehenge in England in June 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Child, Digital Imagery, Gathering, Girl, Happiness, London, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slums, Stonehenge, Time, Vision | 1 Comment

DAUGHTER OF THE MOON

Posted on 11/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in her circled orb,

lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Cheek, Daughter, Hook, Labyrinth, Line, Moon, Night, Old, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Sun, Voice, Young | 1 Comment

A DANGER

Posted on 03/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le Dôme Café in Paris in May 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Danger, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Experience, Feeling, Friends, Fulfillment, Hope, Intensity, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potential, Sculpt, Tragedy, Unchained, Wonderment, Words | 1 Comment

ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE

Posted on 03/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.”

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

Digitally enhanced image created in November 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balled, Beauty, Breasts, Cheek, Digital Imagery, Morning, Mouth, Nipples, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Roses, Sheets, Sleep, Summer | 1 Comment

OCCUPIED

Posted on 26/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.”

~ Wallace Stevens ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Blatant, Digital Imagery, Emotion, Faces, Language, Notes, Observation, Occupied, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sublime, Time, Write | 1 Comment

PURE POETRY

Posted on 09/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.”

~ Natalie Clifford Barney ~

Image processed from a digitally created oil painting made in March 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Books, Ceiling, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fingers, Hints, Lines, Moustaches, Notes, Parrots, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sensuous, Shoulder, Siren, Song, Squints, Stars | 1 Comment

ALWAYS BAREFOOT IN THE BRAMBLES

Posted on 29/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.

And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

~ Philippe Forest ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adjectives, Adverbs, Automatic, Barefoot, Beauty, Brambles, Cheshire Cat, Conjunctions, Creativity, Curves, Digital Imagery, Dreamtime, Emotions, Energy, Erratic, Fences, Heart, Imagination, Life, Love, Memories, Mouth, Neuron, Nouns, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prepositions, Pulses, Signals, Static, Taste, Thorns, Time, Verbs, Wine, Words | 1 Comment

READ THEM THEIR RIGHTS

Posted on 19/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,

and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bedded, Books, Digital Imagery, Finality, Fools, Incoherent, Jewels, Life, Night, Old, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Read, Reality, Rights, Rules, Sauce, Smile, Sounds, Spools, Street Art, Style | 1 Comment

THE SMOOTH BARED FLESH

Posted on 16/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,

with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”

~ William Blake ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Blue, Brown, Cirrus, Clouds, Cracks, Creases, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Earth, Fantasies, Featherbed, Fingers, Flesh, Green, Life, Light, Love, Milk, Moon, Nipple, Paris, Passions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quilt, Salt, Satiation, Sea, Silk, Slivers | 1 Comment

MY BLANK PAGES

Posted on 31/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“The blank page gives us the right to dream.”

~ Gaston Bachelard ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Berlin, Blank Page, Breathe, Burn, Choke, Death, Debate, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Empty, Fate, Hate, Helsinki, Imagination, Jab, Joke, Life, Love, Mystery, Oblivion, Overflow, Pages, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pulitzer, Sea, Smoke, Space, Story, Web, White, Words, World | 1 Comment

UNIVERSYMPHONY

Posted on 29/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra.”

~ Andre Breton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of The Colours and Voices Orchestra taken in November 2019. Photo courtesy Flora Flowerchild.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Born, Breath, Composer, Conductor, Continuity, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Evolve, Eyes, Hand, Movement, Music, Night, Notes, Orchestra, Perspective, Photography, Podium, Poetry, Science, Skies, Song, Stars, Symphony, Time, Truth, Universe | 1 Comment

SWEET RUM NIPPLES

Posted on 26/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“I have put my talent into writing,

my genius I have saved for living.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Brains, Digital Imagery, Dreaming, Fingers, Line, Music, Nipples, Parchment, Pencil, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rum, Sing, Skin, Song, Strings, Summer, Taste, Waiting, Words, Wrinkled, Write | 1 Comment

THE FIRST ACT IN THE TRAGEDY OF TOUCH

Posted on 25/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Touch has a memory.”

~ John Keats ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a restored Roman mosaic taken in June 2004.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bubbles, Country Bumpkins, Death, Digital Imagery, Distance, Emotions, First Act, Kings, Life, Love, Lyre, Madness, Magic, Moments, Music, Notes, Offender, Orpheus, Past, Perspective, Photography, Play, Poetry, Pretender, Queens, Role, Tears, Touch, Tragedy, Troubles, University, Weeping | 1 Comment

PUDDING

Posted on 13/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

~ Aesop ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Birds, Bright, Cradle, Credentials, Digital Imagery, Dotted Line, Essentials, Feather, Influential, Intelligent, Ladle, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Moon, Nest, Night, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pie-Eyed, Poetry, Potential, Pudding, Room, Shine, Sign, Slept, Soup, Stars | 1 Comment

PARADOX

Posted on 06/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“What? do I love her,

that I desire to hear her speak again,

and feast upon her eyes.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Brexit, Darkness, Day, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Expanse, Eyes, Life, Light, Love, Night, Painted, Paradox, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ravishes, Resonance, Seduces, Shadows, Silken, Skies, Stars, Tenebrous, Twilight, Unblemished, Unsuspecting, Vacuity, Voluptuous | 1 Comment

ELECTRICITY

Posted on 29/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Aldo Vitalen taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alluring, Beauty, Breadth, Breath, Compositions, Digital Imagery, Elaborate, Electricity, Emotions, Experiences, Faces, Felicity, Grace, Historical, Length, Life, Lines, Long-Winded, Love, Lyrical, Meaning, Memories, Music, Night, Oral, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Positions, Renditions, Rhymes, Sensuous, Song, Sprinkles, Traces, Traditions, Wisdom, Wit, Words, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

ME AND MARA

Posted on 19/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star

and climbs it while playing a violin.”

~ Edmond de Goncourt ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alcoholic, Beauty, Company, Digital Imagery, Drink, Life, Loaded, Monday, Music, Night, Perspective, Poetry, Pub, Sad, Sahara, Singing, Songs, Straight And Narrow, Stumble, Stupor, Thirst, Tune, Violin | 1 Comment

RUTHSONG

Posted on 10/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“i wrote this when i was twenty-one for a very talented

lovely lady cellist who graced my life briefly…”

~ erik geoffrey barth a.k.a. nightpoet ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a July 2020 scan of a card made 48 years ago by Ruth.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Blue, Carrion, Cold, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dusk, Ears, Forest, Glacier, Green, Grins, Heart, Labyrinth, Love, Memories, Moon, Mountains, Music, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, River, Ruth, Stars, Strings, Time, Trees, Valleys, Visions, Yellow | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Beauty

“Is it the singer or the song…?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have nature and art and poetry,

and if that is not enough, what is enough?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“In the depths of winter, I finally learned

that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in her circled orb,

lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.

And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,

and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,

with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The blank page gives us the right to dream.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have put my talent into writing,

my genius I have saved for living.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Touch has a memory.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What? do I love her,

that I desire to hear her speak again,

and feast upon her eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star

and climbs it while playing a violin.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“i wrote this when i was twenty-one for a very talented

lovely lady cellist who graced my life briefly…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.”