Posts Tagged With: Existence

ONE THIN WIRE

Posted on 28/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

~ Simon Van Booy ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Life, Moment, Night, Nothingness, Now, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Windows | 1 Comment

SLUGS

Posted on 18/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love.

We’re like slugs.”

~ Charles Bukowski ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Crawl, Digital Imagery, Existence, Life, Love, Muck, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slime, Slugs | 1 Comment

PIGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION

Posted on 15/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

~ Marianne Moore ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Colours, Consciousness, Digital Imagery, Erotic, Existence, Exotic, Imagination, Normal, Palette, Perspective, Perverse, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Reality, Unique, Weird | 1 Comment

TIMELESS TOMES

Posted on 14/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“So many books, so little time.”

~ Frank Zappa ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beauty, Books, Bookshelves, Candles, Daylight, Digital Imagery, Electricity, Energy, Evolution, Existence, Future, Human Endeavor, Ideas, Knowledge, Lifeblood, Literature, Music, Opinions, Past, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Technology, Time Machines | 1 Comment

VORTEX

Posted on 26/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“The Image is more than an idea.

It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas

and is endowed with energy.”

~ Ezra Pound ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fossilized mollusk from the author’s collection taken in October 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, DNA, Existence, Galaxies, Hurricane, Life, Millenia, Mollusk, Orbits, Pattern, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Spiral, Sun, Truth, Universe, Vortex, Whirlpool | 1 Comment

PLEUVOIR

Posted on 22/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“And then we talked of the rain, always back to the rain…”

~ Lou Reed ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Downpour, Elixir, Existence, Eyes, Fingers, Gods, Honey, Life, Miracle, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Pleuvoir, Poetry, Rain, Seminal, Streams, Tears, Weight | 1 Comment

FRAME OF REFERENCE

Posted on 22/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it;

humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves

that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”

~ Ken Poirot ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Bois de Vincennes, Building, Change, Digital Imagery, Dimension, Disappear, Existence, Frame Of Reference, Lies, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Space, Time, Truths | 1 Comment

DIMENSIONS

Posted on 18/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Musee du Louvre in Paris in February 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Angles, Art, Artists, Digital Imagery, Dimensions, Drama, Existence, Imitate, Levels, Life, Lives, Meaning, Musicians, Perspectives, Philosophers, Photography, Plot, Poetry, Poets, Purpose, Puzzle, Sensation, Sight, Sound, Story, Structure, Writers | 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

ONE REELERS

Posted on 22/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“You can revise a story, you can edit a film,

but you can only alter an event by lying about it.”

~ Marty Rubin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cartoons, Comedy, Digital Imagery, Drama, Existence, Expenditure, Feature, Film, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reel, Script, Shorts, Theater, Tragedy | 3 Comments

POEM FROM THE BOTTOM OF A BLACK HOLE

Posted on 03/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“There are many black holes, and there are many universes.

Life is a never ending circle, and so too, is death.”

~ Anthony T. Hincks ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animosity, Black Holes, Bottom, Clarity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Escape, Existence, Fires, Future, Gravity, Imagination, Light, Light Years, Luminosity, Matter, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Particles, Past, Patterns, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Predictions, Pressure, Science, Sky, Soul, Stars, Sub-Atomic Energy, Thread, Time, Wisps, Words | 1 Comment

FRAGILITY

Posted on 19/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world

equals the power of your intense fragility.”

~ e. e. cummings ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo, taken in April 2020, of thin 2000 year old pieces of birch bark that were preserved in a layer of sand, mud and loam below the level of the ground water table.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Birch Bark, Chance, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Fate, Fragility, Life, Luck, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plan, Poetry, Purpose, Sand, Shuffle, Thread, Time | 1 Comment

HORIZON

Posted on 11/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“No borders, just horizons – only freedom.”

~ Amelia Earhart ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aware, Bad Feeling, Death, Delusion, Digital Imagery, Distance, Existence, Fact, Future, Horizon, Illusion, Imagination, Inside, Life, Past, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Trouble, Unreachable | 1 Comment

POINTS OF LIGHT

Posted on 14/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.

I wonder if there is infinity within.”

~ Charles Lindbergh ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Beauty, Comprehension, Cosmos, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Energy, Event Horizon, Existence, Filaments, Future, Imagination, Infinity, Life, Light, Matter, Night, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Science, Shadows, Space, Stardust, Time, Universe, Worm Hole | 1 Comment

THE EXPERIMENT

Posted on 03/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are like butterflies that flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

– Carl Sagan ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Chain, Comprehension, Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evolving, Existence, Experiment, Future, History, Imagination, Learning, Life, Light Years, Link, Metamorphosis, Nothing, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Possibilities, Science, Sentience, Stars, Time, Universe | 2 Comments

ENTOMBED

Posted on 19/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.”

~ Jean de La Fontaine ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Metzingen-Glems, Germany in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Entombed, Existence, Life, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rot, Shadows, Solution, Starve, Unhinged, Wall, Window | 1 Comment

COMIC OPERA

Posted on 15/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity

is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

~ Voltaire ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman oil lamp, unearthed in a cremation burial, taken in September 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Act, Civilization, Comic Opera, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Encore, Existence, Flicker, History, Human Folly, Humans, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soot, Time | 1 Comment

THE LAST OF MY KIND

Posted on 02/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Childlessness doesn’t make people selfish;

selfishness makes people selfish.”

~ Elizabeth Gilbert ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ancestors, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, End Of The Line, Existence, Extinguished, Failures, Future, History, Joys, Last Of My Kind, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Procreation, Progeny, Successes, Time, Torch, Tragedies | 1 Comment

LAYERS LAID DOWN

Posted on 29/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Life is like an onion.

You peel it off one layer at a time,

and sometimes you weep.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of geological and archaeological layers taken in August 1986.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Book, Digital Imagery, Disturbances, Existence, Experiences, Formation, Future, History, Layers, Life, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purpose, Surface, Time, Veneer, Years | 1 Comment

UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

Posted on 21/12/2019 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 original 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, Regurgitated, Remembrance, Shadow, Silence, Time, Undigested, Untasted | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Existence

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love.

We’re like slugs.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So many books, so little time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The Image is more than an idea.

It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas

and is endowed with energy.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And then we talked of the rain, always back to the rain…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it;

humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves

that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You can revise a story, you can edit a film,

but you can only alter an event by lying about it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are many black holes, and there are many universes.

Life is a never ending circle, and so too, is death.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world

equals the power of your intense fragility.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“No borders, just horizons – only freedom.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves.

I wonder if there is infinity within.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are like butterflies that flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity

is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Childlessness doesn’t make people selfish;

selfishness makes people selfish.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is like an onion.

You peel it off one layer at a time,

and sometimes you weep.”

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:

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