Posts Tagged With: Fate

SACRILEGE

Posted on 26/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Chance, Circumstance, Create, Creativity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Enlighten, Fate, Fragile, Future, Heart, Heartbeat, Inspire, Learn, Life, Love, Memories, Opportunity, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potential, Sacrilege, Thread, Time, Wasted Time | 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

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

CALIX

Posted on 06/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“Suspicion is a tenuous thing,

so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth

is not easy to determine.”

~ Francis Iles ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in April 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aphrodisiac, Beauty, Calix, Craving, Darkness, Death, Die, Digital Imagery, Drink, Elixir, Emotions, Eyes, Fate, Goblet, Heart, Hunger, Intentions, Life, Live, Love, Malice Aforethought, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Shadows, Thirst | 2 Comments

TOWARDS THE LIGHT

Posted on 10/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Clouds, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Fate, Future, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Ironic, Life, Light, Memories, Old, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sagacity, Satisfaction, Sentience, Thirst, Time, Vision, Young, Youth | 1 Comment

DELTA FLORA

Posted on 28/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“I admit that I am an old man.

I read my years in my mirror,

others read them on my brow.”

~ Petrarch ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of Flapping Shutters Ltd.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ardour, Bouquet, Crevices, Darkness, Death, Delta, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fate, Flavoured, Flora, Future, Heart, Imagination, Life, Love, Memories, Moist, Old Age, Pale, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Sex, Shadows, Time, Visage | 1 Comment

VALLEY OF SHADOWS

Posted on 20/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“Love is, after all, a selfish thing;

and it throws a black shadow on anything

between which and the light it stands.”

~ Bram Stoker ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture (detail) by Antoine Bourdelle taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Chamber, Dance, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fate, Fingers, Head, Life, Light, Love, Mantis, Moist, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Resurrection, Rhapsody, Sex, Shadows, Tongues, Valley | 1 Comment

VENUS EXPOSED

Posted on 18/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Venus smiles not in a house of tears.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original scanned 35mm slide taken in late 1998. From the author’s private archives.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Beauty, Breasts, Buried, Centuries, Clay, Darkness, Deities, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Goddesses, Gods, Grave, Hips, History, Imagination, Kiln, Life, Love, Misfired, Past, Photography, Poetry, Potter, Roman Empire, Shoulders, Statue, Temperature, Time, Venus | 1 Comment

HOLEY HEAVENS

Posted on 29/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

~ Judy Garland ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chance, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Escape, Fate, Gray, Heavens, Hole, Imagination, Ladder, Life, Light, Photography, Poetry | Leave a comment

THE NATURE OF THE BEAST WITHIN

Posted on 31/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beast, Chunder, Darkness, Demons, Digital Imagery, dreams, Emotions, Fabrications, Fate, Fumes, Imagination, Life, Lines, Memories, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Puzzle, Wasteland, Whirlpools, Words | 1 Comment