Posts Tagged With: Death

siren

Posted on 24/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

~ Gertrude Stein ~

000 siren 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balls, Beauty, Breasts, Capitulation, Carnal, Death, Depth, Digital Imagery, Dung, Emotions, Erotica, Finality, Finger, Flies, Flotsam, Folly, Heart, Licentious, Life, Love, Music, Nipples, Orgasmic, Oscillations, Passion, Perspective, Phallus, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Seduction, Sex, Siren, Slaughter, Suckled | 1 Comment

a colour of dust

Posted on 21/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

~ Omar Khayyam ~

000 a colour of dust 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Curtain, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Life, Night, Nightmare, Perspective, Plague, Poetry, Room, Sins, Smell, Sound, Stars, Vision, Voice, Wall, Whispering, Winds, Wine, Woman | 1 Comment

thistles and thorns

Posted on 20/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

~ Rumi ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Song, Sublime, Thistles, Thorns | 1 Comment

one chance

Posted on 04/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”

~ Terry Pratchett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chance, Death, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

soliloquy

Posted on 02/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“To be or not to be isn’t the question.

The question is how to prolong being.”

~ Tom Robbins ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Bees, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soliloquy, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

no regrets

Posted on 30/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

000 no regrets 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Babies, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Moon, Old Men, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Regrets, Sun, Today, Tomorrow, Truth, Yesterday | 3 Comments

today we shine

Posted on 28/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on;

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 today we shine 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bees, Blossom, Death, Digital Imagery, Fade, Forgotten, Insects, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Shine, Summer, Sustenance, Ugliness, Uncertainty | 1 Comment

the waiting game

Posted on 26/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Accomplishment, Autumn, Children, Death, Digital Imagery, Game, Learn, Life, Lips, Love, Mature, Mortal Coil, Mother, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Success, Tomorrow, Waiting, Winter | 1 Comment

jungle

Posted on 23/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

~ Peter De Vries ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Dangerous, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Dust, Jungle, Life, Machete, Nightmare, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promises, River, Swamp | 1 Comment

the nectar of nature’s beautiful bounty

Posted on 17/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world.”

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

000 the nectar of nature's beautiful bounty 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Bounty, Cancer, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Earth, Extinction, Harmony, Heritage, Humanity, Nature, Nectar, Organism, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ulcer, Wind | 1 Comment

into the silence

Posted on 16/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”

~ Mary Oliver ~

000 into the silence 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Destination, Digital Imagery, Imagination, Life, Linger, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quietly, River, Silence, Source | 1 Comment

petals plucked

Posted on 14/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is a stream on which we strew

petal by petal the flower of our heart.”

~ Amy Lowell ~

000 petals plucked 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Certainty, Chance, Death, Digital Imagery, Exist, Fate, Future, Gods, Insect, Life, Love, Pages, Perspective, Petals, Photography, Poetry, Prayer, Prophesize, Winds | 1 Comment

one way street

Posted on 13/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“It’s such a strange time that we’re passing through,

I thought you’d tell me when your time was due,

I guess you thought I knew…”

~ Leon Russell

000 one way street 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Beauty, Black Hole, Blind Alley, Clouds, Colour, Conclusion, Curtain, Dead End, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Hands, Horror, Nothingness, One Way Street, Peregrination, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Weathered, World, Wrinkled | 1 Comment

second chance

Posted on 11/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“You know, I ain’t afraid of dyin’ but there’s one thing I can’t forget,

ain’t no one who’s gone over there, come back to talk to me about it yet…”

~ Memphis Slim ~

000 second chance 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 1990.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Consciousness, Death, Digital Imagery, Insight, Life, Luck, Mirror, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbows, Second Chance, Self-Analysis, Vision | 1 Comment

lepidoptera fantastic

Posted on 08/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blossoms, Breezes, Butterfly, Chalice, Death, Digital Imagery, Feeling, Flowers, Fragrance, Lepidoptera, Life, Light Fantastic, Nectar, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Summer, Terpsichore, Wings | 1 Comment

fossilized instances

Posted on 03/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“Though we are made of memories,

we live only in the here and now.”

~ Sue Halpern ~

000 fossilized instances 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Eye, Flame, Incomprehension, Instances, Life, Memory, Moths, Past, Perspective, Petrified, Photography, Poetry, Present, Real, Spiral | 1 Comment

the reluctant prince

Posted on 25/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,

are you sure all we did was kiss?”

~ Red Buttons ~

000 the reluctant prince 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awaken, Beauty, Bite, Corpse, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Evil, Heart, Inanimate, Kiss, Life, Lips, Love, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prince, Sex, Sleep, Sleeping Beauty, Spell, Suspended Animation, Time, Vampire, Witch | 3 Comments

the celestial laundry line

Posted on 17/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“That which can be asserted without evidence,

can be dismissed without evidence.”

~ Christopher Hitchens ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a flexed burial dated to ca. 3000 BCE taken in January 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Buddha, Death, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Flexed Burial, Heaven, Hell, History, Jesus, Life, Limbo, Muhammad, Neolithic Era, Organized Religion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Superstition | 1 Comment

dead roses

Posted on 09/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“One man gathers what another man spills…”

~ Robert Hunter ~

000 dead roses 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blind, Dead Roses, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Feelings, Life, Liturgy, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrances, Roses, Time | 1 Comment

innocence

Posted on 01/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Innocence crafts its own demise.”

~ F.T. McKinstry ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Innocence, Life, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 3 Comments

Posts Tagged With: Death

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To be or not to be isn’t the question.

The question is how to prolong being.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

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:

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a stream on which we strew

petal by petal the flower of our heart.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It’s such a strange time that we’re passing through,

I thought you’d tell me when your time was due,

I guess you thought I knew…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You know, I ain’t afraid of dyin’ but there’s one thing I can’t forget,

ain’t no one who’s gone over there, come back to talk to me about it yet…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Though we are made of memories,

we live only in the here and now.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,

are you sure all we did was kiss?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“That which can be asserted without evidence,

can be dismissed without evidence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One man gathers what another man spills…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Innocence crafts its own demise.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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