Posts Tagged With: Death

THE HEART TORN OUT

Posted on 01/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“There is a wisdom of the head, and…a wisdom of the heart.”

~ Charles Dickens ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bleed, Breath, Cloud, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hands, Heart, Kisses, Life, Lines, Love, Lunacy, Need, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Price, Renaissance Man, Sappho, Shivering, Silence, Soul, Stars, Tallow, Tongue, Touch, Trust, Truth | 1 Comment

DEVIL’S DOPPELBOCK

Posted on 28/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by an unknown artist taken in September 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bottle, Brew, Darkness, Death, Devil, Digital Imagery, Doppelbock, Hand, Hell, Hollow, Laughter, Life, Lips, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pilgrim, Poetry, Rock, Shadows, Sip, Trees | 1 Comment

SAXOPHONES

Posted on 25/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Beauty, Beeswax, Breath, Carp, Cosmic Pie, Cuttlebone, Death, Digital Imagery, Down, Fading, Floor, Friends, Heavenly, Home, Horror, In, Life, Lips, Mica, Mind, Music, Out, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Saxophones, Sky, Sound, Spiritual, Symphony, Trees. Breeze, Up, Walls, Wild | 1 Comment

MANIFESTO

Posted on 23/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“The streets were dark with something more then night.”

~ Raymond Chandler ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Virginia in November 2004.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boardwalk, Dances, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Drizzle, Feet, Fishes, Fog, Imagination, Life, Night, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Railroad Tie, Rain, Riddle, Sandwiches, Sea, Season, Seaweed, Sleep, Streets, Tea, Wheels | 3 Comments

FOUR IN THE MORNING

Posted on 19/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“The past is a closed door.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bore, Breathe, Chastity Belt, Clouds, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, Doorway, Down, Drizzle, English, King, Life, Love, Memories, Morning, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shoes, Spokes, Weary, Wet, Willing, Willows, Wind | 1 Comment

BLACK BILE

Posted on 17/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it.”

~ Israelmore Ayivor ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ballet, Bananas, Beauty, Bells, Bile, Black, Breath, Buffoons, Cadavers, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Dogs, dreams, Eyes, Feast, Feet, Fishmouths, Folly, Forest, Future, Gomorrah, Greed, Gutters, Gypsies, Idiots, Lakes, Land, Life, Lords, Lunacy, Meal, Moans, Mucus, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Secretions, Semen, Serfs, Sewers, Sex, Shadows, Shivers, Sidewalks, Skills, Skulls, Smiles, Sodom, Spittle, Swallow, Tapestry, Tarts, Teats, Terpsichore, Terror, Thieves, Threads, Trees, Tuna, Vermin, Wicked | 1 Comment

OBLIVION

Posted on 15/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

~ Thomas Nagel ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of just a few of the many boxes taken in May 2005.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boxes, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Documents, Emotions, Energy, Forgotten, Grandparents, Hope, Indulgence, Life, Memories, Moments. Taste, Objects, Oblivion, Pages, Parents, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Time, Twilight, Young | 1 Comment

EARTH

Posted on 14/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are a fluke of nature,

a quirk of evolution,

a glorious contingency.”

~ Michael Shermer ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Wieland Förster taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Assess, Children, Cosmic, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Father, Forgiveness, Future, Hanging, Hatrack, Hell, Learn, Life, Mouth, Old Man, Past, People, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preacher, Pulpit, Puppet, Quirk, Soil, Solace, Stench, Tabulation, Time, Voice, Warning, Wicker Chair, Words, Worms | 1 Comment

DREAMBO

Posted on 12/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“A memory is what is left when something happens

and does not completely unhappen.”

~ Edward de Bono ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banners, Bitter, Bottle, Cheese, Cream, Culprits, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Life, Memories, Milk, Mutter, Past, Perspective, Photography, Phrases, Poetry, Prowl, Rerun, Shadows, Stubborn, Tart, Taste, Time, Tongue | 1 Comment

LETTER

Posted on 11/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“I have made my bed in charnels and on coffins,

where black death keeps record of the trophies won.”

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

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.Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a self portrait by Joanne drawn in June 1970.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black Death, Bodies, Cadavers, Carnal, Dance, Darkness, Death, Decay, Digital Imagery, Disease, Doors, Letter, Life, Midwives, Obscene, Old Men, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Rats, Shadows, Skeletons, Stars, Streets | 1 Comment