Posts Tagged With: Darkness

tongue of the night

Posted on 04/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

~ Anne Carson ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eye, Love, Mouth, Night, Pearl, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Taste, Tear, Tongue, Wind | 1 Comment

moonchild

Posted on 28/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

~ A.J. Lawless ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Coyotes, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fingers, Imagination, Interstellar, Life, Light Years, Moon, Moonchild, Moonlight, Music, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Secrets, Smile, Soliloquy, Sonatas, Stars, Time, Trouble, Wolves | 1 Comment

the tenebrosity of dream

Posted on 26/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Body, Charlatans, Danger, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eyes, Gloom, Hours, Life, Light, Minutes, Morning, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychoanalysts, Shadows, Sleep, Soul, Surprise, Tenebrosity, Unconsciousness | 2 Comments

halcyon

Posted on 24/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

pépier

Posted on 19/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

~ Jacques Deval ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Birds, Birdsong, Branches, Cacophony, Chirp, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Hibernation, Life, Light, Morning, Music, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purple, Seasons, Shadows, Song, Spring, Street Art, Symphony, Throats, Time, Trees, Trill, Twitter, Warble, Warmth | 1 Comment

le hurlement

Posted on 06/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.”

~ John Selden ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Digital Imagery, Echoes, Fabric, Fiber, Howling, Light, Nerves, Night, Pain, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pore, Pores, Scream, Soul, Street Art, Voices | 1 Comment

isolation

Posted on 13/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other

across seas of misunderstanding.”

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banshee, Darkness, Depression, Desperation, Digital Imagery, Isolation, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shade, Shadow | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 10/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

one thin wire

Posted on 08/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

~ Simon Van Booy ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Fate, Life, Moment, Night, Nothingness, Now, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Stars, Sunset, Windows | 1 Comment

shine a light

Posted on 28/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beacon, Brows, Burn, Candle, Clouds, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Effulgence, Flame, Gloaming, Glower, Lambency, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Radiance, Residue, Shadows, Shroud, Summer | 1 Comment

death and cobwebs

Posted on 25/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

~ Rajneesh ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time | 1 Comment

laughs in your face

Posted on 23/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

~ Jim Morrison

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Cheats, Clocks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Equality, Equalizer, Face, Future, Laughs, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reaper, Shadows, Shiver, Smile, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

catshadow

Posted on 19/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“At night all cats are grey.”

~ French proverb ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Back, Bristled, Cat, Clawed, Comfort, Corners, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Familiarity, Life, Night, Padded, Paws, Perception, Perfection, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Silence, Street, Twisted, Whisker | 1 Comment

larmes de bleu

Posted on 16/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Faux Pas, Follies, Future, Life, Light, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Soul, Tears, Time, Weep, Window | 1 Comment

l’ombre de la mort

Posted on 15/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

~ Thomas Browne ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Companion, Conception, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Hourglass, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Time | 3 Comments

like the moon

Posted on 14/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

~ Gregory Maguire ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dark Side, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Labyrinth, Life, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art | 3 Comments

be we

Posted on 13/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Children, Clowns, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Food, Fools, Future, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lies, Life, Merit, Morals, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Puppets, Shills, Skills, Wisdom | 1 Comment

empires

Posted on 10/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage | 1 Comment

can’t see the forest for the irony

Posted on 09/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

~ E. A. Bucchianeri

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Air, Annihilation, Carbon Dioxide, Consequences, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Forest, Green, Irony, Life, Money, Oxygen, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Profit, Progress, Rich, Trees, Wood | 1 Comment

serious moonlight

Posted on 31/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight…”

~ David Bowie ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bone, Branches, Carpet, Corners, Darkness, Demons, Depression, Devils, Digital Imagery, Fool, Full Moon, Isolation, Killing Floor, Monsters, Moon, Moonlight, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Unholy, Window | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Darkness

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

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“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

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Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

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“God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

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“Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.”

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Like this:

“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other

across seas of misunderstanding.”

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Like this:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

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Like this:

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

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Like this:

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

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Like this:

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

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Like this:

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

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Like this:

“At night all cats are grey.”

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“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

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Like this:

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

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Like this:

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

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“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

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Like this:

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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“Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight…”

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