Posts Tagged With: Canary Islands

swansong

Posted on 27/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

~ James Joyce ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Revoir, Canary Islands, Couplets, Digital Imagery, Forever, Goblet, La Palma, Light, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sunset, Swansong, Wine | 1 Comment

the burden

Posted on 23/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“The burden is light on the shoulder of another.”

~ Russian Proverb ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Burden, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Hard Place, La Gomera, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rock, Strongest, Weakest | 1 Comment

incandescence

Posted on 10/08/2022 by Nightpoet

“She took to his tinder with all the passion

of an unrepentant arsonist…”

~ Anonymous ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Africa, Breasts, Breathless, Burned, Canary Islands, Concupiscence, Desert, Digital Imagery, Finger Paint, Flame, Incandescence, Love, Modesty, Painted, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pool, Rubicund, Sunset | 1 Comment

a simple truth

Posted on 28/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration

has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a recycled flower bed taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Change, Digital Imagery, Energy, Immortality, La Palma, Light, Matter, Perspective, Photography, Physics, Poetry, Science, Stardust, Truth | 1 Comment

the event horizon

Posted on 04/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

~ Charles Bukowski ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Being, Breath, Canary Islands, Deleted, Digital Imagery, Event Horizon, Farewell, La Palma, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry, Portal | 1 Comment

shadow and light

Posted on 01/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Beauty, Beginning, Bright, Canary Islands, Colours, Dark, Digital Imagery, End, Hope, La Palma, Light, Mood, Palette, Perspective, Poetry, Rainbows, Shadows, Stardust, Understanding, Void | 1 Comment

WEE

Posted on 27/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“It takes a long time to become young.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a 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 | 1 Comment

SWANSONG

Posted on 05/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

~ James Joyce ~

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

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.

THE PATH FROM THERE TO HERE

Posted on 18/01/2017 by Nightpoet

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous,

leading to the most amazing view.

May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

~ Edward Abbey ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Journey, La Palma, Life, Love, Mountains, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

MIGHT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE

Posted on 06/11/2016 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut,

the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted;

when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

1972

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Environment, Fish, Forest, Humanity, La Gomera, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Trees, Water | 1 Comment

KITTEN

Posted on 05/11/2016 by Nightpoet

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”

~ Albert Schweitzer ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Haikus, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Cats, Digital Imagery, Haikus, Kittens, La Gomera, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 4 Comments

COLOURFUL CLARITY AND CONFUSION

Posted on 30/08/2016 by Nightpoet

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

~ Jean De La Fontaine ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Canary Island of La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Curves, Digital Imagery, La Gomera, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Roads | 1 Comment

A SIMPLE TRUTH

Posted on 24/08/2016 by Nightpoet

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy,

whose vibration has been so lowered

as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Astronomy, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Energy, Immortality, La Palma, Light, Matter, Perspective, Photography, Physics, Poetry, Science | 1 Comment

THE EVENT HORIZON

Posted on 23/08/2016 by Nightpoet

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

~ Charles Bukowski ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Event Horizon, La Palma, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry | 1 Comment

THE CANVAS

Posted on 22/08/2016 by Nightpoet

“To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old,

that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old,

that is perhaps something.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Canary Island La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Canvas, Digital Imagery, Forty, La Gomera, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Wine | 1 Comment

THE BURDEN

Posted on 21/08/2016 by Nightpoet

“The burden is light on the shoulder of another.”

~ Russian Proverb ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Canary Island La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Burden, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, La Gomera, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rocks | 1 Comment

THE MAGIC OF SHADOW AND LIGHT

Posted on 19/08/2016 by Nightpoet

Today is World Photo Day.

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Canary Island of La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, La Gomera, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, World Photo Day | 1 Comment

SHADOW AND LIGHT

Posted on 04/08/2016 by Nightpoet

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, La Palma, Light, Perspective, Poetry, Shadows, Stardust, Void | 1 Comment

LITTLE LION

Posted on 20/07/2016 by Nightpoet

“If only cats grew into kittens.”

~ Robert A.M. Stern ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canary Islands, Cats, Digital Imagery, Kittens, La Palma, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 3 Comments

Posts Tagged With: Canary Islands

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The burden is light on the shoulder of another.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“She took to his tinder with all the passion

of an unrepentant arsonist…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration

has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It takes a long time to become young.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It takes a long time to become young.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous,

leading to the most amazing view.

May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When the last tree is cut,

the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted;

when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Concerning matter, we have been all wrong.

What we have called matter is energy,

whose vibration has been so lowered

as to be perceptible to the senses.

There is no matter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old,

that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old,

that is perhaps something.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The burden is light on the shoulder of another.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

Today is World Photo Day.

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If only cats grew into kittens.”