Posts Tagged With: Creativity

HAMSTER WHEEL

Posted on 24/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

~ Bob Dylan ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Circles, Compassion, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Gears, Hamster Wheel, Human, Life, Money, Morality, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Profit, Prosperity, Rat Race, Street Art, The Running Man, Time, Wheels | 1 Comment

STEP INTO THE DARKNESS

Posted on 09/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”

~ Meister Eckhart ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Black, Cave, Creativity, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Emotions, Imagination, Life, Light, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purity, Rituals, Shadows, Unknown, Verses | 1 Comment

WORDSMITH

Posted on 06/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,

but what we are unable to say.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alliteration, Beauty, Bellows, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Elucidation, Forge, Hammer, Imagination, Ingot, Innovation, Inspiration, Intrinsic, Life, Linguistic, Literature, Music, Nuance, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Semantics, Tongs, Wisdom, Wordsmith | 1 Comment

A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

Posted on 30/10/2021 by Nightpoet

Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

~ Tim O’Brien ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Attraction, Centuries, Communication, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dust, Galaxies, Gravity, History, Imagination, Life, Literature, Magic, Memories, Paris, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Stars, Time, Time Machine, Words | 1 Comment

FLIGHTS OF FANCY

Posted on 04/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,

and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Flights Of Fancy, Future, Memories, Mind, Page, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Progress, Sense, Sight, Sound, Syntax | 1 Comment

THE PAINTER

Posted on 10/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Painting is silent poetry.”

~ Plutarch ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Black, Canvas, Colours, Creativity, Day, Digital Imagery, Gray, Hues, Life, Light, Night, Painting, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spectrum, Street Art, White | 1 Comment

LEGACY

Posted on 04/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

~ Nelson Henderson ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Energy, Hope, Incentive, Kiss, Legacy, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plant, Poetry, Promise, Sun, Survival | 1 Comment

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

Posts Tagged With: Creativity

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,

but what we are unable to say.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,

and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Painting is silent poetry.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“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:

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