“Time is a river sweeping away
all that is born towards the darkest shore.”
~ Félix J. Palma ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken by M. Weller in June 2021.
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Posts Tagged With: Curtain
MAYFLIES
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Backstage, Curtain, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Encore, Life, Mayfly, Oblivion, One Act Show, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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ONE WAY STREET
“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 ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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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
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TAPIS
“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”
~ Theodore Roethke ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.
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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
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LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES
“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2001.
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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
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DUSTED WITH STARS
“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.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Banana Trees, Carpet, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Eyes, La Palma, Light, Moon, Palm Tree, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stars, Valley
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COLOSSEUM
“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.
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THE PERFORMANCE
“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”
~ Noel Coward ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2021.
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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
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BAINROW
“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.
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LIVING WITH THE RISKS
“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.
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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
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VIENS DANSER AVEC MOI
“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.
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BUTTE
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
~ T. S. Eliot ~
Digitally enhanced image created in February 2020.
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WHORLS
“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
~ Carl Sandburg ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.
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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
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COMIC OPERA
“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.
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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
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WHEN I STILL HAD TIME TO DREAM
“Lost time is never found again.”
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.
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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
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IMMEDIATE CURTAIN
“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.”
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Brushes, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Immediate, Life, Love, Memories, Music, Needles, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Robert Wyatt, Thimbles, Thistles
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JOURS ÉTRANGES
“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.© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
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
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DANSEUSE
“Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”
~ Charles Baudelaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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VENUS HIDDEN IN THE CITY
“Relationship is an art.
The dream that two people create
is more difficult to master than one.”
~ Don Miguel Ruiz ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2015.
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OBSCURED BY CLOUDS
“Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”
~Anaïs Nin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples taken in August 1996.
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AN ABSENCE OF LUMINOSITY
“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”
~ Louis Daguerre ~
An electronically enhanced image of imagination created digitally in September 2018.
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