Posts Tagged With: Days

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Posted on 06/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Poetry is prose in slow motion.”

~ Nicholson Baker ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by noonie taken in the Rue de l’Arbalète in Paris in August 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Days, Digital Imagery, Dreamlike, Flux, Memory, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sequences, Slow Motion, Street Art, Time | 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

STOLEN WORDS

Posted on 28/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Spring 2002.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Colours, Days, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Fields, Fortune, Free, Leaves, Misbelief, Months, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Slaves, Spring, Thief, Words, Years | 1 Comment

THE CUSP OF A DREAM

Posted on 03/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.”

~ Eugene O’Neill ~

Digitally realised painting developed from an image first created in September 1976.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breast, Cusp, Days, Distances, Dream, Haunt, Heavens, Ink, Meteors, Night, Noise, Pale, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sky, Star, Stirrings, Windy | 3 Comments

GOIN’ DOWN SLOW

Posted on 29/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Days, Digital Imagery, Down, Ebb, Flow, Gray, Green, Hope, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Slow, Snow, Spring, Tide | 1 Comment

BRIDGE THIS SCHISM

Posted on 26/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

but delicious in the years of maturity.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Communication, Curse, Days, Digital Imagery, Distance, Fabrication, Myth, Nights, Perspective, Phone, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Schism, Sing, Song, Wisdom | 1 Comment

SING JIM

Posted on 20/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“Time it was and what a time it was…”

~ Paul Simon ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a still photo from a video taken in June 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Days, Desire, Digital Imagery, Faces, Jim Morrison, Labour, Lust, Nearness, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sing, Stage | 1 Comment

DARK CORNERS

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“The bright dawn flooded the room,

and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners,

where they lay shuddering.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bottle, Chambers, Corners, Dark, Days, Death, Digits, Dripping, Dry, Dungeons, Empty, Memory, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrance, Roses, Shadows, Throat | 1 Comment

AFTERTHOUGHT

Posted on 13/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.”

~ Amelia Barr ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterthought, Days, Digital Imagery, Hours, Measured, Memory, Moments, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slow Motion, Songs, Tears | 1 Comment

PRISON

Posted on 12/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

~ Betsy Lerner ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amnesty, Cell, Crime, Days, Digital Imagery, Godot, Life, Love, Months, Pardon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Prisoner, Reprieve, Sin, Solitary Confinement, Touch, Warden, Weeks | 1 Comment

INTO RAGE

Posted on 27/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement

inside our own skins, for life.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Armoire, Autumn, Boils, Days, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dust, Gray, Ideas, Isolation, Light, Music, Page, Pen, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rage, Shadows, Songs, Time, Window, Winds, Winter | 1 Comment

CREATION MYTH

Posted on 14/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“God made only water, but man made wine.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo called “Black Hole Event Horizon” taken sometime in early 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Blackness, Creation, Curiosity, Days, Digital Imagery, Feeling, Interest, Life, Light, Matter, Myth, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, The Beatles, Voice | 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

LONG SHADOWS

Posted on 27/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”

~ Terry Pratchett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bottle, Chambers, Corners, Darkness, Days, Dead End, Death, Digital Imagery, Digits, Dry, Life, Love, Memories, Memory, Pain, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrance, Rose, Shadows, Throat, Time, Wine | 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

SPANISH JUNE

Posted on 10/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

~ Traditional ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bed, Blood, Carrion, City, Cocaine, Days, Digital Imagery, Ears, Faces, Fading, Flags, Hot, Imagination, Insects, June. Spanish, Kings, Leaves, Naked, Perspective, Photography, Poet, Poetry, Pulse, River, Shoulders, Smile, Soft Machine, Streets, Summer, Sun, Thin, Thoughts, Trees, Vulture, Whispers, Windowsill, Witches, Words | 1 Comment

BAG OF IMAGERY

Posted on 08/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“…as sometimes at sunset

the rosyfingered moon

surpasses all the stars…”

~ Sappho ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bag, Breaths, Breeze, Creativity, Days, Digital Imagery, Hole, Imagery, Leaves, Life, Memories, Neck, Past, Perspective, Phase, Photography, Phrase, Poetry, Thick, Thin, Trees, Trip, Words | 1 Comment

DISAPPEARING INTO THE DARKNESS

Posted on 20/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“I’ll search and I’ll find her again

even if I have to swim in my own tears.”

~ A.P. Sweet ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Centuries, Darkness, Days, Decades, Digital Imagery, Disappear, Emotions, Essence, Future, Heart, Hours, Image, Life, Love, Painting, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Road, Shadows, Stone, Time, Traces | 3 Comments

BLUR

Posted on 13/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“…wrapped in a waddle, ship in a bottle, like a thief in a brothel…

~ nightpoet ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Blur, Darkness, Days, Desire, Digital Imagery, Disappointed, Emotions, Innocence, Life, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Silence, Standing, Stranded, Streams, Stripped, Tomb, Unsheathed | 1 Comment

GOOD DAYS

Posted on 12/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2000.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Battle Stance, Bleeding, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreaming, Dreams, Farmer, Foothold, Give, Hopes, Juliet, Life, Love, Nothing, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Romeo, Soldiers, Take, Time | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Days

“Poetry is prose in slow motion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

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Like this:

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

but delicious in the years of maturity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time it was and what a time it was…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The bright dawn flooded the room,

and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners,

where they lay shuddering.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement

inside our own skins, for life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“God made only water, but man made wine.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A gray day provides the best light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Let him smell his way to Dover!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…as sometimes at sunset

the rosyfingered moon

surpasses all the stars…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I’ll search and I’ll find her again

even if I have to swim in my own tears.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…wrapped in a waddle, ship in a bottle, like a thief in a brothel…

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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