Posts Tagged With: Blood

crimson thorned

Posted on 02/06/2023 by Nightpoet

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”

~ Leigh Bardugo ~

000 crimson thorned

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Blood, Digital Imagery, Earth, Face, Feet, Hands, Heart, Life, Love, Moon, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Thorns, Virgin, Weathered, Wrinkled | 1 Comment

an absence of luminosity

Posted on 05/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”

~ Louis Daguerre ~

000 an absence of luminosity 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Ballerina, Bile, Blood, Blue, Canvas, Clouds, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Encore, Hi-Fi, Lilac, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pointed Shoes, Sketched, Smile, Soliloquy, Stereophonic, Storms, Tears, Thistles, Thorns | 1 Comment

red

Posted on 12/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Yet would we die as some have done,

beating a way for the rising sun.”

~ Arna Bontemps ~

000 red

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2003.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blood, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Goddess, Life, Mercy, Morning, No Quarter, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Red, Sky, Slaughter, Sunrise | 1 Comment

scripture

Posted on 10/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

000 scripture 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Avenues, Blood, Breezes, Cement, Cobbles, Cold, Corners, Cracks, Dancing, Darkness, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Document, Ice, Leaves, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preserve, Resurrection, Rooftop, Rumours, Scripture, Season, Semen, Shadows, Sisters, Slime, Snow, Spice, Stars, Streets, Tea, Towels, Trowels, Vowels, Wine | 1 Comment

new skin for old

Posted on 22/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

~ William Butler Yeats ~

000 new skin for old 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altar, Bliss, Blood, Creature, Digital Imagery, Dunes, Experience, Future, Grasses, Innocence, Lambs, Life, Love, Metamorphosis, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Routine, Slaughtered, Summer, Wound, Youth | 1 Comment

the count considers retirement

Posted on 31/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me,

with a red light of triumph in his eyes,

and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”

~ Bram Stoker ~

000 the count considers retirement 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2009.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anger, Blood, Breasts, Digital Imagery, Dracula, Fangs, Fear, Garlic Soup, Nipples, Peasants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Retirement, Shadows, Vampire, Virgin | 1 Comment

golden fleece

Posted on 23/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

~ Anne Sexton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Blood, Creature, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Golden Fleece, Hours, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, No Quarter, Paralyzed, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, Rain, Search, Shadows, Streets, Vomit | 1 Comment

life’s blood

Posted on 23/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

~ Alison Prince ~

000 life's blood

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Air, Alive, Blood, Chaos, Consequences, Creativity, Darkness, Death, Desires, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hate, Heart, High Tide, Imagination, Inhumanity, Inspiration, Life, Love, Old Age, Old Man, Page, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Shadow, Slings And Arrows, Time, Vibrant, Violence, War | 1 Comment

i sang into the silence

Posted on 06/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“It is not now as it has been before.”

~ William Wordsworth ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alternative Facts, Backwards, Blood, Chalice, Children, Clock, Cows, Digital Imagery, Drama Queen, Frazzles, Frottage, Heart, Hedonism, Key, Language, Life, Love, Mediocrity, Middle American, Naked, Oaks, Passion, Pastures, Perspective, Perversions, Photography, Pits, Plastic, Poetry, Puritanical, Shade, Silicone, Sing, Straight Razor, Sweat, Symphonic Movements, Voice | 1 Comment

THE PIERCED HEART

Posted on 05/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Stab the body and it heals,

but injure the heart

and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

~ Mineko Iwasaki ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arrow, Arrowhead, Blood, Bow, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Healing, Heart, Life, Love, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Wound | 1 Comment

OUR POISON SWEET

Posted on 29/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“…drink my lovely, drink it down…”

~nightpoet ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blood, Breath, Chalice, Death, Digital Imagery, Drink, Face, Flavour, Gods, Life, Love, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Sheets, Spit | 1 Comment

INSECTIVOROUS SUICIDE

Posted on 25/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blood, Breakfast, Brunch, Crunch, Digital Imagery, Gut, Insects, Jam, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Suicide, Throbbing | 1 Comment

ROSY CRUCIFIXIONS

Posted on 03/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“My life was one long rosy crucifixion.”

~ Henry Miller ~

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2002.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beast With Two Backs, Bedsprings, Belly, Black Dog, Blood, Certainty, Cleavage, Colander, Crucifixion, Digital Imagery, Dirge, Dreaming, Eye, Hiss, Landscape, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Semen, Sleep, Tear, Virgin, Visions | 1 Comment

BY NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GRAY

Posted on 07/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Women and cats will do as they please,

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bathe, Blood, Cats, Cheek, Digital Imagery, Fabric, Gray, Morning, Night, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Red, Ribbons, Sailors, Sky, Tear | 1 Comment

GOLDEN FLEECE

Posted on 01/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

~ Anne Sexton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

SCRIPTURE

Posted on 18/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

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

SPANISH JUNE

Posted on 10/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

~ Traditional ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bed, Blood, Carrion, City, Cocaine, Days, Digital Imagery, Ears, Faces, Fading, Flags, Hot, Imagination, Insects, June. Spanish, Kings, Leaves, Naked, Perspective, Photography, Poet, Poetry, Pulse, River, Shoulders, Smile, Soft Machine, Streets, Summer, Sun, Thin, Thoughts, Trees, Vulture, Whispers, Windowsill, Witches, Words | 1 Comment

MEDARD AT MIDNIGHT

Posted on 23/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –

but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blood, Chest, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Erotica, Eyes, Fangs, Flesh, Heart, Life, Lips, Love, Lust, Memories, Midnight, Mouth, Night, Nightmare, Pain, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Screams, Shadows, Sweat, Teeth, Throat | 1 Comment

RED NIGHTMARE

Posted on 01/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Into what nightmare thingness am I fallen?”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blood, Carmine, Chambermaid, Claret, Crimson, Crown, Crown Of Thorns, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hovels, Jester, King, Life, Milkmaid, Nightmare, Peasants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Queen, Tears, Thatch, Unwashed, Waiting | 1 Comment

POPPY CROTCH

Posted on 01/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bitter, Blood, Crotch, Digital Imagery, Disguise, Emotions, Eyes, Fool, Jester, Lies, Life, Love, Memories, Mind, Pain, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Poppy, Salamander, Time, Tongue, Winds, Winter | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Blood

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”

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“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”

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Like this:

“Yet would we die as some have done,

beating a way for the rising sun.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me,

with a red light of triumph in his eyes,

and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is not now as it has been before.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Stab the body and it heals,

but injure the heart

and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…drink my lovely, drink it down…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“My life was one long rosy crucifixion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Women and cats will do as they please,

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –

but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Into what nightmare thingness am I fallen?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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