Posts Tagged With: Darkness

immortality

Posted on 01/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“A book is the only immortality.”

~ Rufus Choate ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Black Magic, Books, Darkness, Death, Elixirs, Future, Heart, History, Immortality, Incantations, Life, Literature, Love, Memory, Minds, Pages, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potions, Spells, Time, Treasure, Wisdom | 1 Comment

PHASES AND SHADOWS

Posted on 31/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

~ John Greaves ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Revoir, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fate, Friends, Horizon, Life, Light, Memories, Moon, Night, Nowhere, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Phases, Photography, Poetry, Street, Truth | 1 Comment

FADE

Posted on 29/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Life has to be given a meaning

because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

~ Henry Miller ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Accomplishments, Anonymity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fade, Future, History, Instant, Life, Memories, Names, Nothing, Oblivion, Obscurity, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Posterity, Time | 2 Comments

ALONE

Posted on 28/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.

Everything in-between is a gift.”

~ Yul Brynner ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in May 1981.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Darkness, Death, Deathbed, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Eyes, Hand, Intimacy, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Mind, Never Never Land, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Touch | 1 Comment

UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

Posted on 27/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Comprehension, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evaporate, Existence, Future, Imagination, Life, Memories, Moments, Mosaic, Nothing, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pompeii, Regurgitated, Remembrance, Shadow, Silence, Time, Undigested, Untasted | 1 Comment

SPOONED

Posted on 25/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.”

~ Matshona Dhliwayo ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Coffee, Colette, Crooned, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Expectations, Fade, Life, Man Ray, Memories, Noose, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spoon, Spooned, Stage, Strangle, Time, Vexations | 1 Comment

THE DECEMBER DREAM

Posted on 22/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from a photo taken in October 2017, provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises. Used with permission.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Boat, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dolphins, Dream, Emotions, Fantasy, Hair, Heart, Legends, Life, Lips, Love, Memories, Moon, Mystery, Night, Ocean, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Shoreline, Time, Wind | 1 Comment

AN ABSENCE OF EVERYTHING

Posted on 18/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain

on silence and nothingness.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absence, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Nihility, Nil, Non-Existence, Nothingness, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Vacuum, Void | 1 Comment

DARK COME THE DAYS

Posted on 03/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

~ Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019. Photo courtesy of W. Feger, used with permission.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altar, Awakening, Breathing, Darkness, Dawn, Days, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hunger, Labour, Life, Light, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Silence, Skin, Soul, Time, Whore | 1 Comment

ONE REAL STONED HEP CAT

Posted on 02/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“But every junkie’s like a settin’ sun.”

~ Neil Young ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Hep Cat, Jazz, Jiving, John Coltrane, Junk, Junkie, Life, Miles Davis, Music, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Shucking, Stoned, Street Art, Thelonious Monk, Trucking | 1 Comment

LUNACY

Posted on 23/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

~ Adelaide Crapsey ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cadence, Counterpoint, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dissonance, Emotions, Howl, Leash, Life, Love, Lunacy, Memories, Moon, Music, Notes, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polyphony, Pother, Shadows, Songs, Wilderness | 1 Comment

HALCYON

Posted on 22/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

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

CAMOUFLAGED

Posted on 21/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

000 camouflaged 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Autumn, Boulevards, Camouflage, Chill, Dampen, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dungeon, Fog, Future, Labyrinths, Landscape, Leaves, Life, Memories, Mystery, Old, Old Age, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rues, Shadows | 1 Comment

MOONCHILD

Posted on 20/11/2021 by Nightpoet

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

~ A.J. Lawless ~

000 moonchild 1

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 19/11/2021 by Nightpoet

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

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

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 | 1 Comment

FOUR BEFORE TWELVE

Posted on 18/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apathy, Ashes, Blind, Burning, Carcass, Darkness, Deaf, Death, Digital Imagery, Dumb, Elephant, Embers, History, House, Humanity, Ignorance, Indifference, Legacy, Life, Overpopulation, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Time, Twelve O'Clock, Wind | 1 Comment

LARMES DE BLEU

Posted on 13/11/2021 by Nightpoet

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

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

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

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

PRIVATE HELL

Posted on 11/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

~ Seneca ~

000 private hell 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Ashes, Burning, Cards, Chance, Coal, Darkness, Dealer, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Hell, Ignorance, Intensity, Lies, Life, Looking Glass, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Piper, Poetry, Reflections, Shadows, Truth | 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

LA COULEUR DE LA VIE

Posted on 05/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.”

~ RuPaul ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beauty, Black, Breathing, Colours, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Existing, Eyes, Heart, Humankind, Imagination, Innovation, Life, Light, Minds, Painting, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisms, Prisons, Rainbows, Seeing, Street Art, White | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Darkness

“A book is the only immortality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life has to be given a meaning

because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.

Everything in-between is a gift.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain

on silence and nothingness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“But every junkie’s like a settin’ sun.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is about using the whole box of crayons.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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