Posts Tagged With: Existence

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