Posts Tagged With: Earth

THE NECTAR OF NATURE’S BEAUTIFUL BOUNTY

Posted on 23/06/2021 by Nightpoet

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

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

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

LAST NIGHT ALIVE

Posted on 08/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

~ Mae West ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Digital Imagery, Earth, Existence, Hear, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purpose, See, Smell, Taste, Touch, Universe | 1 Comment

JUST A FROWN

Posted on 17/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat,

let me be feverish and frowning.”

~ Anne Sexton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1976.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Child, Crown, Digital Imagery, Earth, Feet, Frown, Head, Jewels, Life, Lines, Love, Patches, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quilts, Smile, Songs, Sun, Upside Down, Youth | 1 Comment

O HOW

Posted on 13/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

~ James Dean ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Breathing, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreaming, Earth, Ladder, Lungs, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sleep, Steps | 1 Comment

A YEAR OF RAIN

Posted on 11/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

~ John Steinbeck

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at a Roman burial excavation in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Dancing, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Earth, Graves, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Sleep, Water, Year | 1 Comment

HALF FULL

Posted on 25/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“Don’t hold your breath…”

~ nightpoet ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Earth, Egotism, Glass, Half Full, Heritage, Mankind, Nationalistic, Paris, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Tribal, Tribe | 1 Comment

MOONLOVER

Posted on 07/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“The moon is but a candle-glow that flickers thro’ the gloom…”

~ Vachel Lindsay ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beams, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Earth, Featherbed, Lover, Milk, Moon, Nipple, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quilt, Salt, Sea, Silk, Silver, Slivers, Tide | 1 Comment

WHEN TIMES WERE TIMES

Posted on 04/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beginning, Dancing, Digital Imagery, Earth, End, Fable, Fantasy, Fate, Friend, Gods, Innocence, Length, Lines, Lovers, Maening, Moons, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Room, Sight, Song, Springs, Street Light, Times | 1 Comment

THE SMOOTH BARED FLESH

Posted on 16/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,

with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”

~ William Blake ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Blue, Brown, Cirrus, Clouds, Cracks, Creases, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Earth, Fantasies, Featherbed, Fingers, Flesh, Green, Life, Light, Love, Milk, Moon, Nipple, Paris, Passions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quilt, Salt, Satiation, Sea, Silk, Slivers | 1 Comment

EARTH

Posted on 14/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are a fluke of nature,

a quirk of evolution,

a glorious contingency.”

~ Michael Shermer ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Wieland Förster taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Assess, Children, Cosmic, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Father, Forgiveness, Future, Hanging, Hatrack, Hell, Learn, Life, Mouth, Old Man, Past, People, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preacher, Pulpit, Puppet, Quirk, Soil, Solace, Stench, Tabulation, Time, Voice, Warning, Wicker Chair, Words, Worms | 1 Comment

VIRUS

Posted on 22/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage

and unabashed in its cruelty.”

~ Aysha Taryam ~

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

Categories: Poetry | Tags: Borders, Consequences, Contaminates, Cruelty, Cure, Death, Digital Imagery, Disease, Earth, Earth Day, Fate, Humanity, Infest, Innocent, Kill, Life, Mercy, No Quarter, Obscenity, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Planet, Poetry, Sickness, Unsuspecting, Vaccine, Virus | 1 Comment

THE GREAT DYING

Posted on 28/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction

of species called the Anthropocene – the Age of Man.”

~ Louie Psihoyos ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creataceous - Tertiary Mass Extinction, Darkness, Death, Devonian Mass Extinction, Digital Imagery, Dinosaurs, Earth, Extinction, Future, K-T Mass Extinction, Land, Life, Meteor, Ordovician Mass Extinction, Past, Permian Mass Extinction, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Science, Sea, Species, Survival, The Great Dying, Time, Triassic- Jurassic Mass Extinction | 1 Comment

BUTTE

Posted on 06/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Butte, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Desert, Digital Imagery, Dusk, Earth, Erosion, Future, Gloaming, Landscape, Life, Nipple, Photography, Poetry, Sandstone, Sentinel, Shadows, Time, Twilight, Wasteland, Wind | 2 Comments

ANOTHER DAY ON EARTH

Posted on 22/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Humankind’s presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer.”

~ John Gray ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cancer, Copulating, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Eating, Ferris Wheel, Future, Humanity, Imagination, Late, Life, Percolating, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ride, Scheming, Screaming, Time, Tracks, Train | 2 Comments

FENÊTRE

Posted on 29/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history,

stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book,

to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly,

but living poetry like the leaves of a tree,

which precede flowers and fruit ~

not a fossil earth, but a living earth;

compared with whose great central life

all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of fossil Orthoceras taken in September 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abstract Painting, Art, Beauty, Cockroaches, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Evolution, Extinction, Fossils, Fruit Flies, Future, Geology, History, Hours, Kandinsky, Life, Maggots, Minutes, Orthoceras, Past, Photography, Poetry, Science, Seconds, Time, Window, Years | 3 Comments

CIRCLE GAME

Posted on 14/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“Humanity is the refuse of spirit.”

~James Lendall Basford ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Circles, Cockroaches, Copulation, Cycles, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Extinction, Future, Game, History, Humanity, Life, Mantra, Overextending, Overflowing, Overindulgence, Overwhelming, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Resources, Rhythm, Street Art, Survival, Time | 1 Comment

LULLABY FOR LOSERS

Posted on 31/12/2018 by Nightpoet

“Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.”

~ Anonymous ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canker, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Earth, Fools, Future, History, Life, Losers, Lullaby, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pig-Ignorant, Planet, Poetry, Species, Street Art, Value | 1 Comment

EARTH DAY

Posted on 22/04/2018 by Nightpoet

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together… all things connect.”

~ Chief Seattle ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken somewhere in northern France in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Beauty, Clouds, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Earth Day, Environment, Extermination, Extinction, Fauna, Flora, France, Future, History, Horizon, Humanity, Life, Nature, Past, Photography, Plants, Poetry | 2 Comments

RAVEN, OH RAVEN

Posted on 07/04/2018 by Nightpoet

“Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.”

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in September 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Digital Imagery, Earth, Elegance, Eyes, Grace, Heart, Heavens, Intelligence, Journey, Photography, Poetry, Ravens, Sky | 1 Comment

COSMIC MESSENGER

Posted on 17/03/2018 by Nightpoet

“Loose his beard, and hoary hair streamed,

like a meteor, to the troubled air.”

~ Thomas Gray ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a chondrite meteorite taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chondrite, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Earth, Energy, Gravity, Journey, Meteor, Meteorite, Orbit, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Space, Star, Time | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Earth

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat,

let me be feverish and frowning.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Don’t hold your breath…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The moon is but a candle-glow that flickers thro’ the gloom…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,

with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are a fluke of nature,

a quirk of evolution,

a glorious contingency.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“This virus is shrewd in its camouflage

and unabashed in its cruelty.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction

of species called the Anthropocene – the Age of Man.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Humankind’s presence on Earth is nothing but a cancer.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history,

stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book,

to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly,

but living poetry like the leaves of a tree,

which precede flowers and fruit ~

not a fossil earth, but a living earth;

compared with whose great central life

all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Humanity is the refuse of spirit.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together… all things connect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Quoth the Raven, Nevermore.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Loose his beard, and hoary hair streamed,

like a meteor, to the troubled air.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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