“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
~ L. Frank Baum ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.
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Posts Tagged With: Dogma
doors of deception
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Believers, Blind Belief, Chains, Deception, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Doors, Enlightenment, Faith, Guns, Ignorance, Impious, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pilgrims, Poetry
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THE YOKE
“…crawling out of the medieval muck of doctrinal bondage
is the first step to secular sensibility on the road to the stars…”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in St Michael’s Tower on the Glastonbury Tor in England in June 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Blind Belief, Chains, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Fables, Gods, Life, Myths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progress, Religion, Shackles, Slaves, Temples, Yoke
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WORDLESS
“I have no words for my reality.”
~ Max Frisch ~
Digitally enhanced image created from photos taken in Paris in May and June 2019.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breathing, Bucket, Christ, Clouds, Cosmos, Crutch, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Door, Ear, Earned, Edge, Feeble Minded, Gills, Hair, Learned, Lesson, Life, Lips, Liquid, Lungs, Maw, Moon, Mouth, Night, Opposition, Paris, Penny, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Prison, Respect, Seed, Shadows, Soul, Sponge, Spores, Stars, Stolen, Tongue, Van Gogh, Window, Winds, Wordless
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STAYING AFLOAT
“The world is filled with fools,
but none of them considers himself one,
or tries not to be one.”
~ Baltasar Gracián ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afloat, Awareness, Blind Belief, Common Sense, Comprehension, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Emotions, Exist, Facts, Flail, Flotsam, Flounder, Fools, Humanity, Ignorance, Imagination, Intolerance, Life, Noses, Nyaffs, Perception, Perspective, Perspicacity, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Prejudice, Reason, Reflections, Religion, Sea, Think, Water
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AND THE DEAD LAUGH
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
~ Langston Hughes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the wall of the Cimetière du Père Lachaise that runs along the Rue du Repos taken in Paris in June 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afterlife, Barbed Wire, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Flesh, Graves, Imagination, Judgment, Laugh, Life, Oblivion, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Rot, Sleep, Spikes, Surprise, Time, Unconcerned, Undisturbed, Unperturbed
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BRICK BY BRICK
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Beams, Beauty, Brainlessness, Bricks, Certitude, Charlatans, Clowns, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Dunces, Environment, Half-Timbered, Insight, Intellect, Intelligence, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Logic, Music, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Science, Stupidity, Time, Truth, Wisdom
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THE LIGHT
“The trouble with people is not that they don’t know
but that they know so much that ain’t so.”
~ Josh Billings ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Angels, Belief, Birth, Black, Blasphemy, Blind Belief, Choirs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Life, Light, Nothingness, Past, Pearly Gates, Pets, Poetry, Relatives, Religion, Room, Saint Peter, Shadows, Teachings, Time, Tunnel
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A BASKET OF PLENTY
“Where ignorance is bliss,
‘Tis folly to be wise.”
~ Thomas Gray ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman wall painting in Herculaneum taken there in August 1996.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Abyss, Apogee, Basket, Bliss, Breath, Darkness, Decibels, Digital Imagery, Dirges, Dogma, Heart, Ignorance, Incantations, Magician, Moon, Necromancer, Night, Painting, Past, Perigee, Perihelion, Photography, Plenty, Poetry, Shadows, Spells, Stars
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PURPLE PASSION
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
~ Aldous Huxley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Bavaria in May 2015.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blind Belief, Blind Faith, Brains, Defined, Described, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Life, Order, Photography, Poetry, Predictable, Purple, Reflection, Religion, Scripture, Shadows
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ALREADY THERE
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art designed by Kai, taken in Paris in September 2017.
© 2017 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
Tags: Compassion, Cursive Writing, Death, Dogma, Empathy, Family Values, Future, Hatred, Intolerance, Lobbyists, Mobile Phone, New Black, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politicians, Politics, President, Pussy Grabber, Racism, Religion, Religious Bigots, Respect, Science, Sex, Sexism, Sheep, Street Art
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