Posts Tagged With: Birds

the key of wonder

Posted on 15/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly…

not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.”

~ Henry Miller ~

000 the key of wonder

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arias, Bed, Birds, Branches, Bucket, Digital Imagery, Faces, Feathers, Floor, Fringe, Honeypot, Imagination, Key, Lace, Life, Love, Mea Culpa, Nectar, Neighbours, Nipples, Perspective, Photography, Pieces, Pilgrims, Poetry, Prisons, Rosaries, Scrubbing, Shit, Smiling, Songs, Teats, Wonder | 1 Comment

WHEN THE SKIES WERE SUDDENLY SILENT

Posted on 21/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”

~ Robert Fripp ~

000 when the skies were suddenly silent

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in August 1989.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Airplane, Birds, Cacophony, Commerce, Digital Imagery, Leaves, Life, Lullabies, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Silence, Skies, Songs, Turbines, Wind | 6 Comments

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

THE GRAMMAR OF HER TONGUE

Posted on 01/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Breast, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Eyes, Fantasy, Fingers, Glisten, Grammar, Life, Love, Lovelight, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precision, Punctuation, Skin, Syllables, Tip, Tongue, Words | 1 Comment

DANCE AWAY THEIR DAYS

Posted on 29/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Baldness, Balloon, Banana, Beauty, Birds, Branches, Buck Tooth, Buttercup, Dance, Dandelions, Dandruff, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Flavours, Life, May, Mazes, Meadows, Metronomes, Moon, Music, Notes, Nut Brown, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Scalps, Sky, Song, Spring, Squirrels, Sunlight, Tails, Trees, Wet Nosed | 1 Comment

BANDORA’S POX

Posted on 06/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!

What a monster… what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”

~ Blaise Pascal ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Caskets, Confusion, Creativity, Death, Deathsong, Debate, Digital Imagery, Flame, Horizon, Illusion, Innuendo, Lanes, Life, Perspective, Persuasion, Photography, Pigskin, Poetry, Pox, Promise, Rhetoric, Seas, Songs, Water, Waves, Wood, Worm, Zodiac | 1 Comment

SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT US

Posted on 09/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

~ Edward Abbey ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Animals, Beauty, Birds, Consequences, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, Ignorance, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollution, Songs, Spring, Streets, Stupidity, Time, World | 1 Comment

PILES OF BONES

Posted on 27/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Arrogance, Birds, Birdsong, Bones, Civilization, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Extinction, Future, Humans, Leaves, Legacy, Life, Narcissism, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Ruins, Shadows, Sky, Time, Water, Wind | 1 Comment

SWARMING

Posted on 15/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”

~ Kellie Elmore ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Branches, Cold, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Spring, Starlings, Summer, Swarming, Trees, Wasteland, Winter | 1 Comment

THE THIEF

Posted on 13/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“It is opportunity that makes the thief.”

~ Seneca the Younger ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ancestors, Beak, Birds, Booty, Breakfast, Descendents, Digital Imagery, Dinosaurs, Egg, Life, Loot, Nest, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Pride, Raven, Thief, Trees | 1 Comment

PÉPIER

Posted on 01/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

~ Jacques Deval ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Birds, Birdsong, Branches, Cacophony, Chirp, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Hibernation, Life, Light, Morning, Music, Night, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Purple, Seasons, Shadows, Song, Spring, Street Art, Symphony, Throats, Time, Trees, Trill, Twitter, Warble, Warmth | 1 Comment

WINTER’S WEB

Posted on 02/02/2019 by Nightpoet

“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope;

winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”

~ Mignon McLaughlin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Boughs, Branches, Cold, Digital Imagery, Hunger, Life, Photography, Poetry, Seeds, Spring, Trees, Weather, Web, Window, Winter | 1 Comment

DORMIR

Posted on 05/11/2018 by Nightpoet

“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Dawn, Day, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Lullaby, Moon, Morning, Night, Photography, Poetry, Sleep, Songs, Stars | 1 Comment

A TREE OF STONE

Posted on 30/09/2018 by Nightpoet

“To greet each day ossified;

Like fossil remains forgotten beneath

the feet of something more lively.”

~ Taylor Patton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Birds, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Forest, Fossils, Imagination, Indonesia, Insects, Organic Material, Petrified Wood, Photography, Poetry, Time, Trees, Volcanoes | 1 Comment

SONSY

Posted on 04/07/2018 by Nightpoet

“I’ve got a bird that whistles,

I’ve got a bird that sings,

but when you shake me darlin’

you know it does strange things.”

~ Willie Dixon ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Birds, Digital Imagery, Fresh, Healthy, Heart, Hips, Life, Lips, Love, Paris, Passion, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Skirts, Treasure, Unique, Vibrant | 1 Comment

NOW

Posted on 04/06/2018 by Nightpoet

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees | 1 Comment

RAVEN, OH RAVEN

Posted on 07/04/2018 by Nightpoet

“Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.”

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in September 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Digital Imagery, Earth, Elegance, Eyes, Grace, Heart, Heavens, Intelligence, Journey, Photography, Poetry, Ravens, Sky | 1 Comment

FAT HENS

Posted on 02/04/2018 by Nightpoet

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

~ e. e. cummings ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bees, Birds, Digital Imagery, Fat Hens, Garden, Hills, Insects, Kiss, Mountains, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Seasons, Sedum Acre, Spring, Sun, Trees, Valleys, Winter | 1 Comment

NEON NIGHTBIRD

Posted on 19/07/2016 by Nightpoet

“A photographer is like a cod,

which produces a million eggs

in order that one may reach maturity.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

Categories: Haikus, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Filters, Haikus, La Palma, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Leave a comment

Posts Tagged With: Birds

“The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly…

not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!

What a monster… what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is opportunity that makes the thief.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope;

winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To greet each day ossified;

Like fossil remains forgotten beneath

the feet of something more lively.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I’ve got a bird that whistles,

I’ve got a bird that sings,

but when you shake me darlin’

you know it does strange things.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A photographer is like a cod,

which produces a million eggs

in order that one may reach maturity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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