Posts Tagged With: Curtain

a colour of dust

Posted on 07/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,

Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”

~ Omar Khayyam ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Curtain, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Life, Night, Nightmare, Perspective, Plague, Poetry, Room, Sins, Smell, Sound, Stars, Vision, Voice, Wall, Whispering, Winds, Wine, Woman | 1 Comment

IMMEDIATE CURTAIN

Posted on 26/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Life is a cosmic joke.”

~ Robert Wyatt ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019. Poem title borrowed from Robert Wyatt’s song “Immediate Curtain” from the album ‘Matching Mole.’

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brushes, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Immediate, Life, Love, Matching Mole, Memories, Music, Needles, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Robert Wyatt, Thimbles, Thistles | 1 Comment

NO ONE LISTENING

Posted on 06/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Curtain, Digital Imagery, Gray, Listening, Memory, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purple, River, Song, Stillness, Sun, Trees | 1 Comment

MAYFLIES

Posted on 09/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“Time is a river sweeping away

all that is born towards the darkest shore.”

~ Félix J. Palma ~

000 mayflies 1

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken by M. Weller in June 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Backstage, Curtain, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Encore, Life, Mayfly, Oblivion, One Act Show, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 3 Comments

ONE WAY STREET

Posted on 21/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Well it’s such a strange world that I’m living in,

she was my woman and she was my friend,

but I was wrong again…”

~ Leon Russell ~

000 one way street

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Beauty, Black Hole, Blind Alley, Clouds, Colour, Conclusion, Curtain, Dead End, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Hands, Horror, Nothingness, One Way Street, Peregrination, Photography, Poetry, Weathered, World, Wrinkled | 1 Comment

TAPIS

Posted on 01/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

~ Theodore Roethke ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Blossoms, Carpet, Colour, Curtain, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Hazy, Hot, Leaves, Light, Mid-Afternoon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisms, Song, Spring, Summer, Tapis, Time | 1 Comment

LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES

Posted on 11/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Appetite, Breath, Curtain, Death, Devices, Digital Imagery, Hunger, Knots, Life, Mid-life Crisis, Mirror, Nectar, Old Man, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Smile, Steam, Taste, Water | 1 Comment

DUSTED WITH STARS

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”

~ Neil Gaiman ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma, the Canary Islands, in November 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banana Trees, Carpet, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Eyes, La Palma, Light, Moon, Palm Tree, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stars, Valley | 1 Comment

COLOSSEUM

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

~ Tacitus ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Colosseum in Rome in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arena, Bloodlust, Book, Bread And Circuses, Carnival, Colosseum, Cum, Curtain, Desire, Digital Imagery, Finger, Folly, Fun, Hunger, Loaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Sawdust, Slaughter, Thumb, Violence, Water, Women | 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

BAINROW

Posted on 03/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are such stuff As dreams are made on,

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

~William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in April 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Act, Awaken, Curtain, Death, Dream, Fantasy, Morning, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stage, Staged, Window, Wonder, Written | 1 Comment

LIVING WITH THE RISKS

Posted on 03/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Everything is dangerous.

If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breasts, Bristle, Contagious, Contenders, Crown, Curtain, Delicate, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Feelings, Feet, Fingers, Fists, Heart, Life, Love, Memories, Outrageous, Pages, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pretenders, Risks, Salt, Sex, Sing, Slept, Splinters, Stage, Thistle, Threats, Throat, Throne, Ticket, Tongue, Whistle | 1 Comment

VIENS DANSER AVEC MOI

Posted on 03/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“We’re fools whether we dance or not,

so we might as well dance.”

~ Japanese Proverb ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original detail photo of the sculpture “La Danse” by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abandon, Beauty, Curtain, Dance, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Emotions, Heart, Life, Love, Night, Nipples, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Poetry, Seduction, Sex, Sigh, Skin, Swirl, Terpsichore | 1 Comment

BUTTE

Posted on 06/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Butte, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Desert, Digital Imagery, Dusk, Earth, Erosion, Future, Gloaming, Landscape, Life, Nipple, Photography, Poetry, Sandstone, Sentinel, Shadows, Time, Twilight, Wasteland, Wind | 2 Comments

WHORLS

Posted on 04/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Ballroom, Beauty, Breasts, Contrivance, Curtain, Dance Floor, Dancer, Digital Imagery, Disguise, Distance, Dreams, Emotions, Flat Chest, Heart, Imagination, Life, Loops, Love, Movement, Nubile, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Spiral, Terpsichore, Whorls | 1 Comment

COMIC OPERA

Posted on 15/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity

is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

~ Voltaire ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman oil lamp, unearthed in a cremation burial, taken in September 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Act, Civilization, Comic Opera, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Encore, Existence, Flicker, History, Human Folly, Humans, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soot, Time | 1 Comment

WHEN I STILL HAD TIME TO DREAM

Posted on 07/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Lost time is never found again.”

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aroused, Beauty, Creativity, Curtain, Dawn, Dream, Emotions, Exhausted, Eyes, Fantasies, Future, Horizon, Ideas, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, Painting, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Sandals, Sunset, Time, Words, Write | 1 Comment

IMMEDIATE CURTAIN

Posted on 09/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Life is a cosmic joke.”

~ Robert Wyatt ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in December 2019. Poem title borrowed from Robert Wyatt’s song “Immediate Curtain.”

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brushes, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Immediate, Life, Love, Memories, Music, Needles, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Robert Wyatt, Thimbles, Thistles | 1 Comment

JOURS ÉTRANGES

Posted on 26/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“The nearer I come to the end of my days,

the more I am enabled to see that strange thing,

a life, and to see it whole.”

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ambience, Beauty, Breasts, Ceiling, Curtain, Deception, Digital Imagery, Dissimulation, Emotions, Eyes, Fingers, Floor, Head, Hyperbole, Life, Love, Metaphor, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Puffery, Satiation, Sex, Tapestry, Tenses, Tongue, Walls, Words | 1 Comment

DANSEUSE

Posted on 17/06/2019 by Nightpoet

“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Applause, Choreography, Curtain, Dance, Digital Imagery, Encore, Heart, Life, Lines, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Rope, Soliloquy, Sorrow, Stage, Theatrics | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Curtain

“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,

Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a cosmic joke.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time is a river sweeping away

all that is born towards the darkest shore.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Well it’s such a strange world that I’m living in,

she was my woman and she was my friend,

but I was wrong again…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are such stuff As dreams are made on,

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Everything is dangerous.

If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We’re fools whether we dance or not,

so we might as well dance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity

is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Lost time is never found again.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a cosmic joke.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The nearer I come to the end of my days,

the more I am enabled to see that strange thing,

a life, and to see it whole.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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