Posts Tagged With: Dust

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 ~

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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

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 ~

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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

a gravity of language

Posted on 14/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

~ Tim O’Brien ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Attraction, Centuries, Communication, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dust, Galaxies, Gravity, History, Imagination, Life, Literature, Magic, Memories, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Stars, Time, Time Machine, Words | 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

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

a matter of attraction

Posted on 08/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“A living speck – the merest dab of life – capable of pleasure and pain,

is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.”

~ Jean Henri Fabre ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Attraction, Beauty, Bed, Ceiling, Clouds, Coagulate, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dust, Imagination, Interstellar Space, Law, Life, Matter, Perspective, Photography, Physiscs, Poetry, Solidify, Time, Wonder | 1 Comment

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 ~

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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

for all our lives

Posted on 17/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“…she pulled apart roses to appreciate the thorns……”

~ nightpoet ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Fear, Fester, Fixation, Life, Lives, Morning, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rotting, Shadows, Street Art, Understanding | 1 Comment

blind eye

Posted on 25/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

~ Anonymous ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blind Eye, Dance, Darkness, Death, Debauched, Debilitates, Decay, Deflowered, Depraved, Deteriorates, Deviates, Devoured, Digital Imagery, Disregards, Dissipates, Dream, Dust, Eyes, Forgets, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rot, See, Song, Street Art | 3 Comments

rainbows raining down

Posted on 07/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dust, Ears, Eyes, Fingers, Flowers, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Light, Memories, Music, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisons, Rainbows, Ribbons, Song, Sound, Spring, Time, Window | 1 Comment

as civilization begins to crumble

Posted on 05/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

~ Livy ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Annihilation, Change, Civilization, Crumble, Darkness, Death, Decay, Digital Imagery, Dust, Future, History, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Self-Aggrandizement, Shadows, Time, Weeds | 3 Comments

cobweb strange

Posted on 22/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bats, Beauty, Bleached, Bones, Chamber, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Energy, Grit, Heavens, Life, Memories, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Persona, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleep, Spirits, Time, Wind, Worms | 1 Comment

trümmer

Posted on 05/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;

but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

~ Comte de Lautréamont ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cycle, Digital Imagery, Dust, Human Folly, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Ruins | 1 Comment

the winds of war

Posted on 24/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence,

unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

~ Erich Maria Remarque ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aggressors, Bombs, Bones, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, History, Lies, Life, Old Men, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Propaganda, Revenge, Senselessness, Victims, War, Winds Of War, Young Men | 1 Comment

too many books

Posted on 01/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“Psychopathia librorum…

I surround myself with the printed word.”

~ Sven Birkerts ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amuse, Beauty, Books, Digital Imagery, Dust, Entertain, Future, History, Knowledge, Learning, Literature, Memories, Pages, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shelves, Think, Time, Time Machine | 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.

A GRAVITY OF LANGUAGE

Posted on 30/10/2021 by Nightpoet

Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

~ Tim O’Brien ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Attraction, Centuries, Communication, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dust, Galaxies, Gravity, History, Imagination, Life, Literature, Magic, Memories, Paris, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Stars, Time, Time Machine, Words | 1 Comment

MY MOTHER’S ASHES

Posted on 22/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Pulvis et umbra sumus.”

“We are dust and shadows.”

~ Horace ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Azaleas, Cinders, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Father, Life, Mother, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Powder, Voice, Waves | 1 Comment

SLICES

Posted on 29/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“I am not interested in a slice of life,

what I want is a slice of the imagination.”

~ Carlos Fuentes ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Elixir, Feel, Future, Learn, Life, Listen, Love, Memories, Music, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Slices, Song, Time, Touch | 2 Comments

Posts Tagged With: Dust

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

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Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

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:

“A living speck – the merest dab of life – capable of pleasure and pain,

is far more interesting to me than all the immensities of mere matter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…she pulled apart roses to appreciate the thorns……”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To fear death is to misunderstand life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;

but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence,

unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Psychopathia librorum…

I surround myself with the printed word.”

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:

Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Pulvis et umbra sumus.”

“We are dust and shadows.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I am not interested in a slice of life,

what I want is a slice of the imagination.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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