Posts Tagged With: Death

might have made a difference

Posted on 15/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water | 1 Comment

requital

Posted on 11/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“La vie est trop courte pour boire du mauvais vin.”

“Life is too short to drink bad wine.”

~ Anonymous ~

000 requital

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in September 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Consciousness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Existence, Labyrinth, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 4 Comments

a bolshevik ballet

Posted on 10/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Government is an association of men

who do violence to the rest of us.”

~ Leo Tolstoy ~

000 a bolshevik ballet

Composite image created in 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Annihilation, Ballet, Bonaparte, Boulevards, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Factories, Fields, Goose Steps, Incriminations, Perspective, Photography, Plans, Poetry, Secret Police, Shorthand, Tin Soldiers | 1 Comment

ghosts

Posted on 08/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“We both drowned under the waves of words we weren’t saying.”

~ Ben Maxfield ~

000 ghosts 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blind, Braille, Chlorophyll, Colour, Crucified, Death, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Heart, Love, Night, Perspective, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Smile, Stars, Touch | 1 Comment

a colour of dust

Posted on 07/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,

Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”

~ Omar Khayyam ~

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

a season

Posted on 05/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Since we cannot change reality,

let us change the eyes which see reality.”

~ Nikos Kazantzakis ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cosmic Clock, Creepers, Death, Digital Imagery, Evolve, Fade, Fertilizer, Monuments, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Season, Species, Stardust, Vines | 1 Comment

slowly sinking into night

Posted on 02/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“We are made of starstuff.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in September 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Atoms, Cycle, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Night, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Rebirth, Star, Sun | 1 Comment

immortality

Posted on 01/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“A book is the only immortality.”

~ Rufus Choate ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Black Magic, Books, Darkness, Death, Elixirs, Future, Heart, History, Immortality, Incantations, Life, Literature, Love, Memory, Minds, Pages, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potions, Spells, Time, Treasure, Wisdom | 1 Comment

PHASES AND SHADOWS

Posted on 31/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

~ John Greaves ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Revoir, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fate, Friends, Horizon, Life, Light, Memories, Moon, Night, Nowhere, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Phases, Photography, Poetry, Street, Truth | 1 Comment

FADE

Posted on 29/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Life has to be given a meaning

because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

~ Henry Miller ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Accomplishments, Anonymity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fade, Future, History, Instant, Life, Memories, Names, Nothing, Oblivion, Obscurity, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Posterity, Time | 2 Comments

ALONE

Posted on 28/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.

Everything in-between is a gift.”

~ Yul Brynner ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in May 1981.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Darkness, Death, Deathbed, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Eyes, Hand, Intimacy, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Mind, Never Never Land, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Touch | 1 Comment

UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

Posted on 27/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Comprehension, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evaporate, Existence, Future, Imagination, Life, Memories, Moments, Mosaic, Nothing, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pompeii, Regurgitated, Remembrance, Shadow, Silence, Time, Undigested, Untasted | 1 Comment

SPOONED

Posted on 25/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.”

~ Matshona Dhliwayo ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Coffee, Colette, Crooned, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Expectations, Fade, Life, Man Ray, Memories, Noose, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spoon, Spooned, Stage, Strangle, Time, Vexations | 1 Comment

SIREN

Posted on 23/12/2021 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 ~

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

HEL

Posted on 21/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Dying is an art, like everything else.”

~ Sylvia Plath ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bishop, Cat-O'-Nine-Tails, Clams, Death, Digital Imagery, Fishknife, Fishwife, Flagellation, Flatulence, Frenzy, Life, Monks, Mussels, Nuns, Oysters, Paris, Penance, Penis, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ravens, Shadows, Souls, Whorehouse | 1 Comment

ROSES MORTES

Posted on 19/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,

just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Grave, Hopes, Leaves, Life, Love, Memories, Mourners, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Roses, Seasons, Shadows, Spring, Summer, Time, Trees, Voices | 1 Comment

AN ABSENCE OF EVERYTHING

Posted on 18/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain

on silence and nothingness.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absence, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Nihility, Nil, Non-Existence, Nothingness, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Vacuum, Void | 1 Comment

CASTING SHADOWS

Posted on 16/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Comprehension, Death, Digital Imagery, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sunlight, Understanding, Universe | 1 Comment

INNOCENCE

Posted on 15/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Innocence crafts its own demise.”

~ F.T. McKinstry ~

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 | 1 Comment

HANDS

Posted on 12/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Hands have their own language.”

~ Simon Van Booy ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Comfort, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Friendship, Hands, Ideals, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Touch, Understanding, Warmth, Wisdom | 3 Comments

Posts Tagged With: Death

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“La vie est trop courte pour boire du mauvais vin.”

“Life is too short to drink bad wine.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Government is an association of men

who do violence to the rest of us.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We both drowned under the waves of words we weren’t saying.”

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:

“Since we cannot change reality,

let us change the eyes which see reality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are made of starstuff.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A book is the only immortality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life has to be given a meaning

because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone.

Everything in-between is a gift.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“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:

“Dying is an art, like everything else.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,

just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain

on silence and nothingness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Innocence crafts its own demise.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Hands have their own language.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

NIGHTPOET