Posts Tagged With: Folly

siren

Posted on 24/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

~ Gertrude Stein ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balls, Beauty, Breasts, Capitulation, Carnal, Death, Depth, Digital Imagery, Dung, Emotions, Erotica, Finality, Finger, Flies, Flotsam, Folly, Heart, Licentious, Life, Love, Music, Nipples, Orgasmic, Oscillations, Passion, Perspective, Phallus, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Seduction, Sex, Siren, Slaughter, Suckled | 1 Comment

now

Posted on 02/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

000 now 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees | 1 Comment

penance

Posted on 25/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“The man hath penance done, and penance more will do.”

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Agility, Canvas, Clumsiness, Digital Imagery, Disease, Face, Folly, Knees, Lair, Life, Lions, Nowhere, Paris, Pattern, Penance, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Race, Risk, Scarred, Sentence, Shadows, Stare, Step, Street Art, Tails | 1 Comment

SIREN

Posted on 23/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

~ Gertrude Stein ~

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

SCREAM

Posted on 25/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

~ Francisco Goya ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Demons, Deviltry, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Fate, Folly, Nightmares, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Scream, Sleep | 1 Comment

COLOSSEUM

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

~ Tacitus ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Colosseum in Rome in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arena, Bloodlust, Book, Bread And Circuses, Carnival, Colosseum, Cum, Curtain, Desire, Digital Imagery, Finger, Folly, Fun, Hunger, Loaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Sawdust, Slaughter, Thumb, Violence, Water, Women | 1 Comment

PENANCE

Posted on 17/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“The man hath penance done, and penance more will do.”

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

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

BLACK BILE

Posted on 17/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it.”

~ Israelmore Ayivor ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ballet, Bananas, Beauty, Bells, Bile, Black, Breath, Buffoons, Cadavers, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Dogs, Dreams, Eyes, Feast, Feet, Fishmouths, Folly, Forest, Future, Gomorrah, Greed, Gutters, Gypsies, Idiots, Lakes, Land, Life, Lords, Lunacy, Meal, Moans, Mucus, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Secretions, Semen, Serfs, Sewers, Sex, Shadows, Shivers, Sidewalks, Skills, Skulls, Smiles, Sodom, Spittle, Swallow, Tapestry, Tarts, Teats, Terpsichore, Terror, Thieves, Threads, Trees, Tuna, Vermin, Wicked | 1 Comment

SIREN

Posted on 08/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

~ Gertrude Stein ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balls, Beauty, Breasts, Capitulation, Carnal, Death, Depth, Digital Imagery, Dung, Emotions, Erotica, Finality, Finger, Flies, Flotsam, Folly, Heart, Licentious, Life, Love, Music, Nipples, Orgasmic, Oscillations, Passion, Phallus, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Seduction, Sex, Siren, Slaughter, Suckled | 1 Comment

NOW

Posted on 04/06/2018 by Nightpoet

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees | 1 Comment

DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

Posted on 03/08/2017 by Nightpoet

“Days are stringed instruments

and every one strikes a different note.”

~ Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Haikus, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Folly, Haikus, Life, Paradise, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time | 1 Comment

MOON SHINE DOWN

Posted on 14/05/2017 by Nightpoet

“No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.”

~ Ashanti Proverb ~

Photo taken in Germany in May 2017.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Common Sense, Folly, Moon, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stupidity | 2 Comments

SCREAM

Posted on 08/03/2017 by Nightpoet

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

~ Francisco Goya ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Church of St. Katharin in Oppenheim, Germany in January 2010.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Demons, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Fate, Folly, Nightmares, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Scream, Sleep | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Folly

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

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“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

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“The man hath penance done, and penance more will do.”

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“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

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“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

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“The man hath penance done, and penance more will do.”

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Like this:

“The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Days are stringed instruments

and every one strikes a different note.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“No one tests the depth of a river with both feet.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

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