Posts Tagged With: Darkness

YARDSTICK

Posted on 14/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”

~ Mason Cooley ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of one of the blue Marc Chagall stained glass windows in the church of Saint Stephen in Mainz, Germany taken in September 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Believers, Blind Belief, Blind Faith, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Measure, Photography, Pious, Poetry, Yardstick | 1 Comment

TONGUE OF THE NIGHT

Posted on 02/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

~ Anne Carson ~

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

SERIOUS MOONLIGHT

Posted on 02/03/2021 by Nightpoet

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

~ David Bowie ~

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

THE OIL OF YOU

Posted on 23/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“And ever has it been known that love knows not

its own depth until the hour of separation.”

~ Khalil Gibran ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Vénus Sortant Du Bain by Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bond, Boundaries, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dreams, Fences, Fingers, Love, Morning, Oil, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ring, Scent, Stars, Touch, Trespassers, Winter, Words | 3 Comments

CELLARING

Posted on 24/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“So let’s drink some wine and have a good time,

but if you really want to come through

let the good time have you…”

~Kevin Ayers ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adventure, Age, Autumn, Cellar, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dust, Experiences, Friendships, Given, Grown, Life, Lost, Love, Matured, Opportunities, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Taken, Wine | 1 Comment

THIS EXCREMENT UNCTION

Posted on 30/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bones, Darkness, Demons, Devil, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Empty, Excrement, Exhaustion, Exorcism, Forbidden, Heart, Hopes, Horizon, Lolita, Long, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sense, Short, Soul, Struggle, Unction | 1 Comment

MINUTES MEASURED

Posted on 15/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Time needs another minute.”

~ Sly Stone ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cigarettes, Circles, Conversation, Corner, Dancing, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Lips, Measured, Minutes, Passionate, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Romancing, Shadows | 1 Comment

STRATEGY

Posted on 11/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the interior of the West Kennet Long Barrow taken in England in July 1983.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Barrows, Blackness, Darkness, Deviance, Digital Imagery, Distance, Drank, Dribbles, Drippings, Drumbeats, Fuse, Mystery, Numbers, Passages, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Safety, Slavery, Slippers, Strategy, Swindles, Thimbles, Thread | 1 Comment

SHINY BLACK ADJECTIVES

Posted on 01/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adjectives, Alley, Asphalt, Cobbles, Confidence, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emptiness, Movement, Mystery, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Shadows, Sihlouettes, Street, Symphony, Syntax, Verbs | 1 Comment

THAT ONCE CAST HER SHADOW

Posted on 31/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

~ Jack Lemmon ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the excavation of a Roman cremation burial taken in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Body, Bones, Cinders, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreamtime, Embers, Journey, Oblivion, Offerings, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pyre, Shadow, Sleep, Underworld, Urn | 1 Comment

INCUBUS

Posted on 20/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Sex ages us. Priests are boyish,

spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty.

We others, the demon rots us out.”

~ John Updike ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Ymir taken in October 2020. (YMIR © Ray Harryhausen).

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bedroom, Breathe, Darkness, Demon, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Incubus, Night, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quiver, Shadows, Sheets, Sparkle | 1 Comment

THIS YEAR OF PLAGUE

Posted on 15/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague.

Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 2 Comments

GOLDEN FLEECE

Posted on 01/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

~ Anne Sexton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Blood, Creature, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Golden Fleece, Hours, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, No Quarter, Paralyzed, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, Rain, Search, Shadows, Streets, Vomit | 1 Comment

UP TO OUR ASHES

Posted on 30/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Love. Of course, love.

Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Burn, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Doldrums, Duality, Emotions, Fire, Life, Love, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Ride, Riverside, Time, Toasted, Turns, Twists, Wife | 1 Comment

THE DANCES I NEVER DANCED

Posted on 27/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

~ James Richardson ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Burns, Chances, Clouds, Dances, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Future, Game, Helpless, Hope, Horizon, Life, Love, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puppet, Street Art, Strings, Time, Winds, Wings | 1 Comment

OVERKILL

Posted on 21/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”

~ Albert Collins ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blues, Bombs, Breasts, Breath, Chaos, Circles, Corner, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Distress, Extreme Unction, Finger, Glasses, Life, Madness, Mess, Milk, Neck, Neglect, Overkill, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purple, Scene, Shadows, Spirals, Virgin Birth | 1 Comment

SCRIPTURE

Posted on 18/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Avenues, Blood, Breezes, Cement, Cobbles, Cold, Corners, Cracks, Dancing, Darkness, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Document, Ice, Leaves, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preserve, Resurrection, Rooftop, Rumours, Scripture, Season, Semen, Shadows, Sisters, Slime, Snow, Spice, Stars, Streets, Tea, Towels, Trowels, Vowels, Wine | 1 Comment

GRAY

Posted on 05/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“A gray day provides the best light.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Breezes, Colour, Darkness, Days, Digital Imagery, Gradients, Gravestone, Gray, Landscapes, Life, Mountains, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shadows, Summer, Time, Vistas, Wind, Windows | 1 Comment

UNTIL THE CURTAINS CLOSE

Posted on 30/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“On the planet where the shadows roam

the end is always within sight.”

~ Jordan G Kobos ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of street art in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abel, Cain, Curtains, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fable, Fact, Life, Night, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art | 1 Comment

UNIVERSYMPHONY

Posted on 29/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra.”

~ Andre Breton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of The Colours and Voices Orchestra taken in November 2019. Photo courtesy Flora Flowerchild.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Born, Breath, Composer, Conductor, Continuity, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Evolve, Eyes, Hand, Movement, Music, Night, Notes, Orchestra, Perspective, Photography, Podium, Poetry, Science, Skies, Song, Stars, Symphony, Time, Truth, Universe | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Darkness

“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And ever has it been known that love knows not

its own depth until the hour of separation.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So let’s drink some wine and have a good time,

but if you really want to come through

let the good time have you…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time needs another minute.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sex ages us. Priests are boyish,

spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty.

We others, the demon rots us out.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Love. Of course, love.

Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A gray day provides the best light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“On the planet where the shadows roam

the end is always within sight.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“May night continue to fall upon the orchestra.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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