Posts Tagged With: Destruction

twist of fate

Posted on 15/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of

another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.

To read is to voyage through time.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from two photos of a book from my library taken in March 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Attic, Books, Cellar, Chaos, Conflict, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fate, Hands, Lessons, Libraries, Life, Literature, Miracle, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Readers, Students | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 10/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

the myth

Posted on 24/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Destruction, Digital Imagery, Earth, Environment, Extinction, Humans, Myth, Nature, Perspective, Photography, Planet, Poetry, Species | 1 Comment

now

Posted on 02/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

000 now 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees | 1 Comment

ruines

Posted on 02/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,

but ruin in their eyes.”

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France) taken in Paris in December 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Desolation, Destruction, Detritus, Devastation, Digital Imagery, Fragments, Heart, Hypocrisy, Life, Love, Memories, Obstruction, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Rhyme, Ruins, Shadows, Soul | 1 Comment

love your world

Posted on 04/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War | 1 Comment

SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT US

Posted on 09/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

~ Edward Abbey ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Animals, Beauty, Birds, Consequences, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, Ignorance, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollution, Songs, Spring, Streets, Stupidity, Time, World | 1 Comment

BOVINE SIGHS

Posted on 28/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Cows are gentle, interesting animals.”

~ Ingrid Newkirk ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Beast, Bovine, Brow, Brown, Cognizant, Communicate, Cow, Creatures, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emote, Emotions, Eyes, Face, Genteel, Humankind, Ignorance, Life, Peaceful, Photography, Plate, Poetry, Rational, Reason, Sighs, Steak, Thoughts | 1 Comment

PAS D’AVENIR

Posted on 12/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work.

We cannot keep living on hope, though.”

~ Erik Pevernagie ~

Digitally enhanced image created in December 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cancer, Children, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Famine, Future, Generations, Horror, Humanity, Life, Nightmare, No Future, Obliteration, Oblivion, Pandora's Box, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rape, Regeneration, Ride, Shadows, Time, War | 1 Comment

RUINES

Posted on 06/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.”

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo, detail of the sculptured walls by Louis Leygue in Studio 104 Radio France, taken in Paris in December 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Desolation, Destruction, Detritus, Devastation, Digital Imagery, Fragments, Heart, Hypocrisy, Life, Love, Memories, Obstruction, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Rhyme, Ruins, Shadows, Soul | 2 Comments

LOVE YOUR WORLD

Posted on 13/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.

THE GHOSTS OF THINGS UNREMEMBERED

Posted on 11/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

LONG GONE TO DUST

Posted on 17/10/2018 by Nightpoet

“Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.”

~ Chief Seattle ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barefoot, Change, Chaos, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Foot, Footprint, Future, History, Kiln, Life, Message, Past, Photography, Poetry, Roofing Tiles, Time, War | 1 Comment

NOW

Posted on 04/06/2018 by Nightpoet

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees | 1 Comment

SPARK OF LIFE

Posted on 21/01/2018 by Nightpoet

“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.“

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2018.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Artistry, Beauty, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Endeavour, Genetics, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Innocence, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progress, Spark, Time, Violence, War | 1 Comment

SURVIVAL

Posted on 17/12/2017 by Nightpoet

“You can’t run away from trouble.

There ain’t no place that far.”

~ Uncle Remus ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Consequences, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Earth, Fate, History, Life, Nature, Niches, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Profit, Spaces, Survive, Time, Universal Consciousness, Universe, Void | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Destruction

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of

another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.

To read is to voyage through time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

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Like this:

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere,

but ruin in their eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Cows are gentle, interesting animals.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work.

We cannot keep living on hope, though.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.“

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You can’t run away from trouble.

There ain’t no place that far.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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