Posts Tagged With: Curtain

a colour of dust

Posted on 21/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

~ Omar Khayyam ~

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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 18/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is a cosmic joke.”

~ Robert Wyatt ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brushes, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Immediate, Life, Love, Memories, Music, Needles, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Thimbles, Thistles | 3 Comments

no one listening

Posted on 01/05/2023 by Nightpoet

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

~ William Shakespeare ~

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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

one way street

Posted on 13/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“It’s such a strange time that we’re passing through,

I thought you’d tell me when your time was due,

I guess you thought I knew…”

~ Leon Russell

000 one way street 1

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, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Weathered, World, Wrinkled | 1 Comment

tapis

Posted on 05/04/2023 by Nightpoet

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

~ Theodore Roethke ~

000 tapis 1

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

an absence of luminosity

Posted on 05/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”

~ Louis Daguerre ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Ballerina, Bile, Blood, Blue, Canvas, Clouds, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Encore, Hi-Fi, Lilac, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pointed Shoes, Sketched, Smile, Soliloquy, Stereophonic, Storms, Tears, Thistles, Thorns | 1 Comment

dusted with stars

Posted on 01/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

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

~ Neil Gaiman ~

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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

jours étranges

Posted on 30/01/2023 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 ~

000 jours étranges 1

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

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

danseuse

Posted on 22/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

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

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

the performance

Posted on 26/12/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ Noel Coward ~

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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 14/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on,

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

~William Shakespeare ~

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

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

distance

Posted on 27/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Curtain, Different, Digital Imagery, Distance, Illusion, Love, Passion Play, Penny Opera, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sagebrush, Sidewalks, Street, Summersaults, Theater Of The Absurd, Wind | 1 Comment

summer cedes

Posted on 28/08/2022 by Nightpoet

“…and all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Betelgeuse, Black, Burning, Curtain, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Dirges, Embrace, Gray, Insects, Leaves, Life, Orion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Season, Sing, Summer, Trees, Winds, Wings, Winter | 1 Comment

a drowning man

Posted on 03/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”

~ Franz Kafka ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Drowning, Life, Light, Man, Moonless, Mountain, Nights, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Promised Land, Shadows, Shore, Slow Motion, Starless, Valley, Waters | 1 Comment

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.

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 ~

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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.

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:

“It’s such a strange time that we’re passing through,

I thought you’d tell me when your time was due,

I guess you thought I knew…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”

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:

“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:

“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:

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…and all at once, summer collapsed into fall.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“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:

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