Posts Tagged With: Cold

THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T

Posted on 20/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

~ Hesiod ~

000 the summer that wasn't

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Candle, Cold, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Dreary, Gray, Heart, Home, Hook, Hope, Moon, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Summer, Tendril, Winter | 1 Comment

TWILIGHT TIME

Posted on 03/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose…”

~ Ecclesiastes 3 ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cold, Dance, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Illuminated, Jungle, Learned, Life, Night, Path, Photography, Poetry, Rebel, Shout, Silence, Sing, Solitude, Time, Torch, Twilight, Voice | 3 Comments

IN THE BALANCE

Posted on 08/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance

that their own human ancestors established.”

~ Joan D. Vinge ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021. Courtesy of Matschenbrei Photography GmbH.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Cages, Cold, Curtains, Digital Imagery, Distant, Fear, Gray, Hard, Indifferent, Isolation, Life, Normality, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Suspicion, Tear, Windows | 1 Comment

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.

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

A NUMBNESS

Posted on 04/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.”

~ David Whyte ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cold, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Fabric, Heart, Killers, Leaves, Life, Night, Numbness, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soul, Streets, Time, Wind | Leave a comment

THE DAY AFTER

Posted on 14/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

~ Dejan Stojanovic ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of mold on a wall taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: After, Boats, Castles, Character, Clothed, Coats, Cold, Darkness, Day, Death, Future, Hours, Laughter, Life, Moats, Night, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Shadows, Shelter, Storm, Thoughts, Throats, Time | 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

WOMAN

Posted on 08/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“You had the power all along my dear.”

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acumen, Affection, Ardour, Beauty, Cold, Compassion, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Drab, Emotions, Empathetic, Equals, Fair, Future, Gray, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Intelligence, Intuition, Just, Life, Love, Men, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Sensitivity, Sex, Sexuality, Sin, Sincerity, Subjugation, Violence, Woman, Women | 1 Comment

PERCEPTION

Posted on 01/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clarity, Clouds, Cold, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Drop, Emotions, Fingers, Future, Icicle, Life, Lips, Love, Memory, Mist, Passion, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spine, Suction, Time, Uncertainty | 1 Comment

MOON OMENS

Posted on 26/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads

like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.”

~ Garth Nix ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adjectives, Branches, Clouds, Cold, Darkness, Digest, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Future, Life, Lips, Marrow, Memories, Moon, Nightmares, Nipple, Omens, Orgasmic, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Rapid Eye Movement, Sex, Tallow, Tongue | 1 Comment

SEASON OF SILENCE

Posted on 15/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“I said nothing for a time,

just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness

that had been left inside me.”

~ Haruki Murakami ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in 2002.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animosity, Carrion Crow, Cold, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Forgetfulness, Hapless, Helpless, Hopeless, Labyrinth, Laughter, Life, Loathing, Memories, Past, Photography, Poetry, Purgatory, Seasons, Shadows, Silence, Snow, Struggle, Summer, Survive, Time, Trust | 1 Comment

SEASON OF FRIENDSHIP

Posted on 09/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

~ Josh Billings ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Camille Claudel’s sculpture (detail) L’Âge mur taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cold, Darkness, Dialog, Diatribe, Digital Imagery, Embers, Emotions, Expectations, Flame, Friendship, Harassment, Hatred, Heart, Hope, Intimidation, Life, Love, Memories, Paris, Passion, Past, Path, Photography, Poetry, Reconciliation, Revenge, Seasons, Time, Winter | 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

REMEMBRANCE

Posted on 07/06/2019 by Nightpoet

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

~ Antonio Porchia ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Cabalistic, Cold, Consciousness, Dada, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dour, Fade, Flowers, Imagination, Life, Nightmares, Nihilism, Nothing, Pale, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Remembrance, Wither | 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

MINUS SEVEN

Posted on 26/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Winter changes into stone

the water of heaven

and the heart of man.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cold, Coughed, Frozen, Geraniums, Gray, Ice, Lungs, Moods, Photography, Poetry, Pyres, Seasons, Snow, Trees. Leaves, Wind, Winter | 1 Comment

GRAY GRAU GRIS

Posted on 02/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Life is a wretched gray Saturday,

but it has to be lived through.”

~ Anthony Burgess ~

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

Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Cold, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Grau, Gray, Gris, Hair, Heart, Love, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Snow, Spring, Wind, Winter | 1 Comment

DEATH IN DECEMBER

Posted on 03/12/2017 by Nightpoet

“At Christmas I no more desire a rose

Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;

But like of each thing that in season grows.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cold, Death, December, Digital Imagery, Mountains, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Skeletons, Snow, Snowmen, Winter | 1 Comment

WINTERTIDE

Posted on 09/11/2017 by Nightpoet

“He withers all in silence, and in his hand
unclothes the earth and freezes up frail life.”

~ William Blake ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in November 2010.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Cold, Death, Digital Imagery, Ice, Leaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Snow, Winter, Wintertide | 1 Comment

ICE AGE

Posted on 31/01/2017 by Nightpoet

“Somewhere, someplace, somebody is looking

for someone exactly like you.”

Digitally enhanced image created from an original analog photo taken in the mid 1980’s.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cold, Digital Imagery, Heart, Ice, Life, Love, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Winter | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Cold

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance

that their own human ancestors established.”

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:

“Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

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:

“You had the power all along my dear.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads

like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I said nothing for a time,

just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness

that had been left inside me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

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:

“Winter changes into stone

the water of heaven

and the heart of man.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a wretched gray Saturday,

but it has to be lived through.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“At Christmas I no more desire a rose

Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;

But like of each thing that in season grows.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“He withers all in silence, and in his hand unclothes the earth and freezes up frail life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Somewhere, someplace, somebody is looking

for someone exactly like you.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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