Posts Tagged With: Forever

SWANSONG

Posted on 05/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

~ James Joyce ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Revoir, Canary Islands, Couplets, Digital Imagery, Forever, Goblet, La Palma, Light, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sunset, Swansong, Wine | 3 Comments

DEATH IS FOREVER

Posted on 02/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

~ Hector Berlioz ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cimetière de Montparnasse, Dead Flowers, Death, Digital Imagery, Forever, Grave, Heaven, Hell, Life, Love, Nowhere, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time | 1 Comment

FREE FALL FLOW

Posted on 26/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.”

~ William Hazlitt ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Fade, Flickers, Flow, Forever, Free Fall, Future, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Uncertainty, Waiting | 1 Comment

SANDS

Posted on 21/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

000 sands 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breeze, Death, Digital Imagery, Echoes, Ether, Everything, Fade, Forever, Life, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Silence, Storm, Time, Voices, Void, Waves, Wind | 1 Comment

SLEEP

Posted on 21/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Bristol, England in June 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breathing, Death, Digital Imagery, Forever, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sleep, Time | 1 Comment

ONE DAY LESS

Posted on 01/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“But dare rather to quit the platform,

plunge into the sublime seas,

dive deep, and swim far…”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Digitally enhanced painting created in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Day, Digital Imagery, Exercise, Forever, Future, Horizon, Life, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Sublime, Success, Youth | 1 Comment

ONE LONG LAST LOOK

Posted on 05/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

~ Donna Tartt ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balcony, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Forever, Gone, Haze, Horizon, Look, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Ship, Sun, Tears, Water | 1 Comment

A LOOSE DISGUISE

Posted on 21/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

~ Cesare Pavese ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Back Bay, Virginia in June 1977.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bones, Digital Imagery, Disguise, Forever, Heartbeat, Life, Lost, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pulse, Skeleton, Skin, Time, Veil | 1 Comment

WORLDLY POSSESSIONS

Posted on 24/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“A poet is, before anything else,

a person who is passionately in love with language.”

~ W. H. Auden ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dimension, Forever, Imagination, Incomprehension, Language, Life, Lines, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Possessions, Procession, Sentence, Stunted, Words, Worldly | 1 Comment

CORRIS

Posted on 07/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“All are lunatics,

but he who can analyze his delusions

is called a philosopher.”

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, City, Clock, Corris, Dandelion, Death, Digital Imagery, Downpour, Dreaming, Emotions, Forever, Lane, Life, Love, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shelf, Slate, Time, Town Crier, Weeping | 1 Comment

REVOLUTION IS FOREVER

Posted on 04/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“True revolution comes from true revulsion;

when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”

~ Charles Bukowski ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Roman sculpture of a Celtic warrior prisoner taken in January 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Authority, Change, Commitment, Corrupt, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dignity, Equality, Forever, Future, Hated, Heart, History, Human Rights, Individuals, Inequality, Injustice, Institutions, Justice, Life, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protection, Purge, Revolution, Sanctity, Streets, Strong, Vigilance | 1 Comment

CITY OF SHADOWS

Posted on 02/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“No man is an island.”

~ John Donne ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Backs, Beauty, Bistros, Cafés, Change, Cobbles, Conversing, Death, Digital Imagery, Drinking, Eating, Emotions, Forever, Future, Hair, Heart, Hibernation, Horse Chestnut Trees, Life, Love, Memories, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shadows, Short Skirts, Shoulders, Smells, Sounds, Tastes, Time, Urban, Young Ladies | 1 Comment

NOT FADE AWAY

Posted on 26/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“You show me continents, I see the islands,

You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.”

~ Bjork ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Coexistence, Cohesion, Continuum, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eternity, Faces, Fade, Forever, Found, Future, Infinity, Janus, Life, Lips, Lost, Mouth, Never, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Reason, Sound, Space, Time, Vortex | 1 Comment

DEATH IS FOREVER

Posted on 02/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Face, Forever, Future, Glass, Hate, Imagination, Life, Light, Love, Lust, Memories, Now, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Short, Then, Thread, Time, Window | 1 Comment

FAIS UNE PAUSE

Posted on 10/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Break, Choose, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Eyes, Fantasy, Forever, Imagination, Life, Paris, Past, Path, Pause, Photography, Poetry, Relax, Smile, Time, Voice | 1 Comment

THE GOLDEN SHAFT

Posted on 29/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains

laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original Polaroid photo taken at the Peaks Of Otter, Virginia in Spring 1978 .

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Forever, Gibberish, God, Golden Calf, Hands, Lies, Life, Misspellings, Mistakes, Moses, Mountain, Never, Pants, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Shaft, Song And Dance, Tablets, Time, Truth, Wisdom | 1 Comment

I WATCHED

Posted on 04/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“Men look at themselves in mirrors.

Women look for themselves.”

~ Elissa Melamed ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Angels, Beauty, Capers, Cigarettes, Coffee, Digital Imagery, Dramas, Edge, Eyes, Forever, Girls, Green, Heart, Honour, Jungle, Life, Love, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Red Hair, Tables, Virgins | 1 Comment

FOREVER OR LONGER

Posted on 03/04/2018 by Nightpoet

“We travel, some of us forever,

to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Forever, Life, Memories, Photography, Poetry, Songs, Stone, Stories | 1 Comment

ECHOES

Posted on 07/02/2018 by Nightpoet

“Consciousness is a being

the nature of which

is to be conscious of

the nothingness of its being.”

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Dordogne region of France in June 1985.

Categories: France, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blackness, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Echoes, Forever, France, Nothingness, Nowhere, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Thunder, Voices | 1 Comment

THE EDGE OF FOREVER

Posted on 19/01/2017 by Nightpoet

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

~ James Dean ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Santorini in 1992.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Crete, Death, Digital Imagery, Edge, Forever, Heart, Life, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Forever

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“But dare rather to quit the platform,

plunge into the sublime seas,

dive deep, and swim far…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A poet is, before anything else,

a person who is passionately in love with language.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All are lunatics,

but he who can analyze his delusions

is called a philosopher.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“True revolution comes from true revulsion;

when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“No man is an island.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You show me continents, I see the islands,

You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It takes a very long time to become young.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains

laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Men look at themselves in mirrors.

Women look for themselves.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We travel, some of us forever,

to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Consciousness is a being

the nature of which

is to be conscious of

the nothingness of its being.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD: