Posts Tagged With: Dawn

dreams fading

Posted on 13/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who

can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees

the dawn before the rest of the world.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Butterflies, Candle, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Leaves, Memory, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleep, Wind, Wings | 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

WEE

Posted on 27/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“It takes a long time to become young.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in La Palma, the Canary Islands in November 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Birth, Canary Islands, Cradle, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Emergence, Free, Growing, Gurgle, Innocence, Jungle, Leaves, Life, Liquid, Past, Photography, Poetry, Rime, Scribble, Slaughter, Slobber, Time | 1 Comment

DAWN MADNESS

Posted on 17/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“The road is life.”

~ Jack Kerouac ~

000 dawn madness

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 1977.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bleat, Caws, Clucks, Coos, Cows, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Gulls, Madness, Moo, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sheep, Sky, Stars, Stones, Symphony | 1 Comment

AS ANOTHER DAY DAWNS

Posted on 31/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”

~ Alice Liddell ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2004.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balcony, Bees, Breeze, Chaos, Coda, Dawn, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyelids, Flowers, Insects, Jungle, Life, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Routine, Skin, Song, Storm Clouds, Symphony, Uncertainty | 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.

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

ONE MORNING’S MOON

Posted on 18/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“And he beholds the moon;

like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken circa 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Clef, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Disc, Light, Moon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precision, Scaffolding, Sky, Stave, Wind | 1 Comment

MOONLOVER

Posted on 07/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“The moon is but a candle-glow that flickers thro’ the gloom…”

~ Vachel Lindsay ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beams, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Earth, Featherbed, Lover, Milk, Moon, Nipple, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quilt, Salt, Sea, Silk, Silver, Slivers, Tide | 1 Comment

GARGOYLE SANS CATHEDRAL

Posted on 02/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a gargoyle on one of the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral taken in Paris in July 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cathedral, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Electric, Gargoyles, Grotesque, Haunches, Morning, Notre Dame, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Still Born | 1 Comment

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

THE SMOOTH BARED FLESH

Posted on 16/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,

with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”

~ William Blake ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Blue, Brown, Cirrus, Clouds, Cracks, Creases, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Earth, Fantasies, Featherbed, Fingers, Flesh, Green, Life, Light, Love, Milk, Moon, Nipple, Paris, Passions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quilt, Salt, Satiation, Sea, Silk, Slivers | 1 Comment

DEWY DAWN IN DOVER

Posted on 13/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“Let him smell his way to Dover!”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a Pentax SLR 110 film format photo of Dover Castle, in Dover, England taken in May 1979.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Baptiized, Boobs, Broke, Brown Ale, Dawn, Days, Death, Dew, Digital Imagery, Gills, Heights, Last Rites, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Starless | 1 Comment

RUTHSONG

Posted on 10/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“i wrote this when i was twenty-one for a very talented

lovely lady cellist who graced my life briefly…”

~ erik geoffrey barth a.k.a. nightpoet ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a July 2020 scan of a card made 48 years ago by Ruth.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Blue, Carrion, Cold, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dusk, Ears, Forest, Glacier, Green, Grins, Heart, Labyrinth, Love, Memories, Moon, Mountains, Music, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, River, Ruth, Stars, Strings, Time, Trees, Valleys, Visions, Yellow | 1 Comment

LINES FOR A LOVER NOT NEXT TO ME

Posted on 05/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“Absence – that common cure of love.”

~ Lord Byron ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anguish, Beauty, Breasts, Breath, Centuries, Darkness, Dawn, Death, Desperation, Devour, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Exist, Eyes, Feeling, Heart, Imagination, Imprisoned, Life, Love, Memories, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Season, Sleepless, Stars, Time, Walls, Wish, Worlds | 1 Comment

THE RAVISHING

Posted on 16/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Blush, Breasts, Corner, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Emotions, Heart, Imagination, Life, Love, Lust, Music, Night, Nymph, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ravishing, Satyr, Sex, Shadows, Silken, Song, Squeaking, Sylvan, Thrust, Wine | 1 Comment

ROSES FOR MILADY

Posted on 23/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

~ Edmond Jabes ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bower, Bud, Cock, Dawn, Dew, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Imagination, Life, Lips, Love, Nectar, Passion, Perfume, Perspective, Petals, Photography, Poetry, Roses, Scent, Seduction, Sensuous, Sex, Shaft, Sing, Song, Tongue | 1 Comment

WHEN I STILL HAD TIME TO DREAM

Posted on 07/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Lost time is never found again.”

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.

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 | 1 Comment

MINUIT

Posted on 23/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!”

~ Lord Byron ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting called “L’Odalisque allongée” by Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beauty, Breasts, Darkness, Dawn, Desire, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Erotica, Fantasies, Fingers, Heart, Life, Love, Lover, Lust, Midnight, Night, Painting, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Shadows, Tongue | 1 Comment

A THOUSAND DEATHS AGAIN

Posted on 22/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears

with as much ease as which we close our eyes.”

~ Richard Steele ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture called “Monster” by Léopold Chauveau taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brain, Darkness, Dawn, Death, Demon, Digital Imagery, Duvet, Insane, Life, Monster, Night, Nightmare, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Scream, Shadows, Sleep, Stars, Volume, Wailing | 2 Comments

COITUS DAEMONIUM

Posted on 08/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“He who is neither human nor demon

is not the dawn nor the dusk.”

~ Kohta Hirano ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breasts, Coffee, Coitus, Croissant, Darkness, Dawn, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Erotica, Flaccid, Howling, Hunger, Life, Love, Moon, Morning, Night, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Shadows, Wet, Wings, Wolves | Leave a comment

Posts Tagged With: Dawn

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who

can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees

the dawn before the rest of the world.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It takes a long time to become young.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The road is life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And he beholds the moon;

like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The moon is but a candle-glow that flickers thro’ the gloom…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,

with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Let him smell his way to Dover!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“i wrote this when i was twenty-one for a very talented

lovely lady cellist who graced my life briefly…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Absence – that common cure of love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One rose is enough for the dawn.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Lost time is never found again.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears

with as much ease as which we close our eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“He who is neither human nor demon

is not the dawn nor the dusk.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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