Posts Tagged With: Creativity

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

THE PERFORMANCE

Posted on 03/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

~ Noel Coward ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afternoon, Audience, Born, Conceived, Creativity, Curtain, Dancer, Death, Digital Imagery, Documentarian, Dreams, Experiences, Fantasies, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Mask, Musician, Night, Painter, Performance, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potter, Sculptor, Stage | 1 Comment

THE STOLEN YEAR

Posted on 09/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

~ Christopher Paolini ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Breath, Creativity, Death, Dreams, Emotions, Gasp, Hopes, Impossibility, Lives, Oblivion, Paupers, Perspective, Photography, Plans, Poetry, Projects, Pyre, Routine, Stolen, Time, Wind, Year | 1 Comment

RIDDLES

Posted on 07/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“I am a man of few words, but many riddles.”

~ Frank Gorshin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Baby, Bed, Boy, Canvas, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Hand, Head, Information, Inspiration, Language, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Relationships, Riddles, Scouts, Season, Song, Winter | 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

JUST A TRICKLE

Posted on 28/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1989.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blank, Clouds, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dream, Fantasize, Flood, Ideas, Imagination, Life, Paper, Pencil, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ponder, Rant, Rave, Sails, Scream, Stories, Syndrome, Think, Thoughts, Time, Whisper, Wind, Words, Write, Writer's Block | 1 Comment

POET TREE

Posted on 11/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

~ Jean Cocteau ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anticipation, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Grammar, Green, Imagination, Insanity, Inspiration, Leaves, Life, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Proverbs, Roots, Seasons, Seeds, Trees, Words | 1 Comment

WORLDLY POSSESSIONS

Posted on 24/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“A poet is, before anything else,

a person who is passionately in love with language.”

~ W. H. Auden ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dimension, Forever, Imagination, Incomprehension, Language, Life, Lines, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Possessions, Procession, Sentence, Stunted, Words, Worldly | 1 Comment

LE PEINTRE

Posted on 20/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“I do not seek. I find.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acrylics, Art, Canvas, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Familiar, Freedom, Hues, Imagination, Language, Life, Mind, Oils, Painter, Painting, Palette, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rainbows, Unseen, Watercolours, Words | 1 Comment

BAG OF IMAGERY

Posted on 08/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“…as sometimes at sunset

the rosyfingered moon

surpasses all the stars…”

~ Sappho ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bag, Breaths, Breeze, Creativity, Days, Digital Imagery, Hole, Imagery, Leaves, Life, Memories, Neck, Past, Perspective, Phase, Photography, Phrase, Poetry, Thick, Thin, Trees, Trip, Words | 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

SACRILEGE

Posted on 26/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Chance, Circumstance, Create, Creativity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Enlighten, Fate, Fragile, Future, Heart, Heartbeat, Inspire, Learn, Life, Love, Memories, Opportunity, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potential, Sacrilege, Thread, Time, Wasted Time | 1 Comment

CREATIVITY

Posted on 18/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Art, Artistic Expression, Birth, Creativity, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Figurative, History, Humanity, Humans, Imagination, Inspiration, Language, Learned, Life, Mind, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Refined, Symbolically, Taught, Time, Unique | 1 Comment

TOWARDS THE LIGHT

Posted on 10/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Clouds, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Fate, Future, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Ironic, Life, Light, Memories, Old, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sagacity, Satisfaction, Sentience, Thirst, Time, Vision, Young, Youth | 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

WINDOW OF IMAGINATION

Posted on 27/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Beauty, Birth, Clay, Creativity, Darkness, Different, Digital Imagery, Formed, Future, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Light, New, Night, No Name, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Unique | 1 Comment

RAMEAUX

Posted on 15/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“I hear the wind among the trees playing the celestial symphonies;

I see the branches downward bent, like keys of some great instrument.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ancient, Balladry, Bend, Boughs, Branches, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Discourse, Emotions, Eternal, Howled, Imagination, Language, Life, Motion, Photography, Poetry, Rameaux, Rhythm, Shake, Tongues, Trees, Voice, Wave, Whispered, Wind | 1 Comment

LADDER TO THE MOON

Posted on 13/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.

And draw the ladder after me.”

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ancient God, Beauty, Bucket, Colour, Craters, Creativity, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Imagination, Ladder, Landscape, Moon, Mountains, Music, Night, Painting, Passion, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Prisms, Rainbows, Shadows, Sound, World | 1 Comment

BLABBERWOCKY

Posted on 07/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

~ Lewis Carroll ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a chondrite meteorite found in Morocco in 2019 taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Buddha, Cappuccino, Cats, Concentric Circles, Creativity, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eternal, Exquisite, Eyes, Farting, Fish, Galaxies, Imagination, Infinity, Jade, Kings, Light, Meteorites, Moon, Night, Obscurity, Obsolescence, Orbits, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Posteriors, Salacious, Spangles, Stars, Tail, Time | 2 Comments

TREE OF LIFE

Posted on 30/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

~ Khalil Gibran ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980, taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ancient, Beauty, Calm, Caress, Certainty, Child, Confidants, Conspirators, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fabric, Fantasy, Fires, Friends, Gnarled, Heart, Imagination, Life, Magic, Mentors, Mind, Muses, Passion, Past, Pataphysical, Patience, Philosophers, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Thought, Tide, Time, Touch, Trees, Truth, Weaving, Wisdom, Wise, Woods | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Creativity

“I have nature and art and poetry,

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I am a man of few words, but many riddles.”

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:

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A poet is, before anything else,

a person who is passionately in love with language.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I do not seek. I find.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…as sometimes at sunset

the rosyfingered moon

surpasses all the stars…”

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:

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You had the power all along my dear.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I hear the wind among the trees playing the celestial symphonies;

I see the branches downward bent, like keys of some great instrument.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.

And draw the ladder after me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

that we may record our emptiness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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