Posts Tagged With: Death

fleeting heart

Posted on 26/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

~ Marian Keyes ~

000 fleeting heart 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Alone, Child, Choice, Circumstance, Death, Digital Imagery, Edges, Feeble, Future, Gray, Heart, Life, Old, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polish, Solitude, Stones, Time, Tomb, Water | 1 Comment

death and cobwebs

Posted on 25/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

~ Rajneesh ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time | 1 Comment

laughs in your face

Posted on 23/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

~ Jim Morrison

000 laughs in your face 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Cheats, Clocks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Equality, Equalizer, Face, Future, Laughs, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reaper, Shadows, Shiver, Smile, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

waiting for the end

Posted on 21/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

~ Maurice Chevalier ~

000 waiting for the end

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Companions, Death, Digital Imagery, End, Friends, Future, Goodbyes, Icons, Idols, Life, Obliquity, Oblivion, Obscurity, Opaque, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shroud, Soliloquy, Vigil, Waiting | 1 Comment

larmes de bleu

Posted on 16/01/2023 by Nightpoet

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

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

000 larmes de bleu 2

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

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

l’ombre de la mort

Posted on 15/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

~ Thomas Browne ~

000 l’ombre de la mort 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Companion, Conception, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Hourglass, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Time | 3 Comments

be we

Posted on 13/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 be we 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Children, Clowns, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Food, Fools, Future, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lies, Life, Merit, Morals, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Puppets, Shills, Skills, Wisdom | 1 Comment

empires

Posted on 10/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

000 empires 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage | 1 Comment

can’t see the forest for the irony

Posted on 09/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

~ E. A. Bucchianeri

000 can't see the forest for the irony 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Air, Annihilation, Carbon Dioxide, Consequences, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Forest, Green, Irony, Life, Money, Oxygen, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Profit, Progress, Rich, Trees, Wood | 1 Comment

towards the light

Posted on 07/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

000 towards the light 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Clouds, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Fate, Future, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Ironic, Life, Light, Memories, Old, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sagacity, Satisfaction, Sentience, Thirst, Time, Vision, Young, Youth | 1 Comment

tick tock

Posted on 02/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

~ Hector Berlioz ~

000 tick tock 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clocks, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Salvador Dali, Tick Tock, Visions | 1 Comment

for some damn reason

Posted on 27/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another;

it’s one damn thing over and over.”

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belief, Damn, Death, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Soul, Why, Work | 1 Comment

the performance

Posted on 26/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

~ Noel Coward ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afternoon, Audience, Born, Conceived, Creativity, Curtain, Dancer, Death, Digital Imagery, Documentarian, Dreams, Experiences, Fantasies, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Mask, Musician, Night, Painter, Performance, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potter, Sculptor, Stage | 1 Comment

bainrow

Posted on 14/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on,

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

~William Shakespeare ~

000 bainrow 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Act, Awaken, Curtain, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Fantasy, Morning, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stage, Staged, Window, Wonder, Written | 1 Comment

human absurdity

Posted on 13/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“History is the study of all the world’s crime.”

~ Voltaire ~

000 human absurdity

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Accept, Asshole, Cliff, Copulating, Death, Digital Imagery, Egomaniacs, Hate, Heads, History, Horror, Human Condition, Ignorance, Intolerance, Lemmings, Life, Loop, Masses, Mouth, Peasants, Perspective, Photography, Pigheaded, Poetry, Power-Hungry, Procrastinating, Propagating, React, Respect, Stupidity, Talk Back, Thoughts And Prayers, Tolerate | 1 Comment

scripture

Posted on 10/12/2022 by Nightpoet

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

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

000 scripture 1

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

virus

Posted on 07/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage

and unabashed in its cruelty.”

~ Aysha Taryam ~

000 virus 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Borders, Consequences, Contaminates, Cruelty, Cure, Death, Digital Imagery, Disease, Earth, Earth Day, Fate, Humanity, Infest, Innocent, Kill, Life, Mercy, No Quarter, Obscenity, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Planet, Poetry, Sickness, Unsuspecting, Vaccine, Virus | 1 Comment

réflexions

Posted on 28/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence

which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”

~ Max Frisch ~

000 réflexions 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bucket, Death, Deception, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fish, Heaven, Life, Nothingness, Paris, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reflections, Religion, Reward, Time, Vision, Worm | 1 Comment

america hurts

Posted on 25/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“As I say, it is perhaps easier to love America passionately,

when you look at it through the wrong end of a

telescope than when you are right there.

When you are actually in America, America hurts.”

~ D.H. Lawrence ~

000 america hurts

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: America, Brave, Death, Digital Imagery, Firearm, Free, Hate, Helpless, Injustice, Insanity, Life, Madness, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sorrow, Violence | 6 Comments

where the time goes

Posted on 24/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

~ Henry Austin Dobson ~

000 where the time goes

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clay, Cosmos, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Experiences, Life, Maw, Memories, Mold, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Steps, Time, Winds | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Death

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another;

it’s one damn thing over and over.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on,

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“History is the study of all the world’s crime.”

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:

“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage

and unabashed in its cruelty.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence

which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“As I say, it is perhaps easier to love America passionately,

when you look at it through the wrong end of a

telescope than when you are right there.

When you are actually in America, America hurts.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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