Posts Tagged With: Future

SOLILOQUY

Posted on 26/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“To be or not to be isn’t the question.

The question is how to prolong being.”

~ Tom Robbins ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Bees, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soliloquy, William Shakespeare | 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

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

MY WOODEN FACE

Posted on 18/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blackness, Clueless, Confused, Digital Imagery, Face, Flames, Future, Heart, Lies, Life, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Truth, Wood, Youth | 1 Comment

NO ROOM FOR RAINBOWS

Posted on 17/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“The color of truth is gray.”

~ Andre Gide ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clothes, Clouds, Coffee, Digital Imagery, Future, Gray, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbows, Room, Sky, Steam, Window | 1 Comment

LEMMINGS

Posted on 08/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Over-consumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Climate Change, Conflict, Death, Digital Imagery, Disease, Extinction, Famine, Future, Incompetence, Lemmings, Life, Overpopulation, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resources, Stupidity, Unlimited Growth | 1 Comment

PETALS PLUCKED

Posted on 14/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“I can’t feel a thing;

All mournful petal storms are dancing

inside the very private spring of my head.”

~ Franz Kafka ~

000 petals plucked

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Certainty, Chance, Death, Digital Imagery, Exist, Fate, Future, Gods, Insect, Life, Love, Pages, Perspective, Petals, Photography, Poetry, Prayer, Prophesize, Winds | 1 Comment

PILL

Posted on 04/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small.”

~ Grace Slick ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Discovery, Dream, Eat, Emotions, Experiences, Future, Hopes, Perspective, Photography, Pill, Poetry, Relationship, Swallow | 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

THIN AROUND CAUSE

Posted on 31/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Seine taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altars, Breadth, Breath, Cause, Dreams, Effect, Eyes, Flame, Future, Length, Mountains, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ponder, Present, Reflect, Time, Universal Rhyme, Vision, Water, Windows | 1 Comment

NO FUTURE FOR FOOLS

Posted on 01/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”

~ Zadie Smith ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Fools, Future, No Future, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time | 1 Comment

CURTAINED WINDOW

Posted on 25/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“The curtains were made for moving

cause you know sometimes you’re not always there.”

~ John Frusciante ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aspirations, Curtains, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Fantasy, Future, Life, Now, Passions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Secrets, Truth, Window | 1 Comment

THIS YEAR OF PLAGUE

Posted on 15/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague.

Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 2 Comments

NEITHER HERE NOR THERE

Posted on 08/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bastille, Books, Bookshelves, Digital Imagery, Dust, Elysium, Future, Here, History, Hooks, Museum, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Poetry, Sanctuary, Skeletons, Solitude, There, Tomes | 1 Comment

THE DANCES I NEVER DANCED

Posted on 27/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

~ James Richardson ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Burns, Chances, Clouds, Dances, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Future, Game, Helpless, Hope, Horizon, Life, Love, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puppet, Street Art, Strings, Time, Winds, Wings | 1 Comment

STRANGE HOW WE MET

Posted on 28/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

~ Anthony Burgess ~

Digitally enhanced image created in August 2020 from two scans of a signed Penguin edition of A Clockwork Orange. From the author’s personal collection.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: A Clockwork Orange, Blunders, Digital Imagery, Dream, Future, Knitting, Lines, Love, Memories, Miles, Past, Perspective, Poetry, Present, Roads, Rose, Song, Thorn, Time, Tongue, Untie, Westover, Wonders, Words, Wrote, Yarn, Young | 1 Comment

THE DAY AFTER

Posted on 14/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

~ Dejan Stojanovic ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of mold on a wall taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: After, Boats, Castles, Character, Clothed, Coats, Cold, Darkness, Day, Death, Future, Hours, Laughter, Life, Moats, Night, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Shadows, Shelter, Storm, Thoughts, Throats, Time | 1 Comment

THE DOUBT REMAINS

Posted on 12/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

~ Voltaire ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art called “Poussiere De Tess – Batiment” taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Certainty, Digital Imagery, Doubt, Dream, Future, Imagined, Lies, Memory, Muddle, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Real, Truth, Uncertainty | 3 Comments

TOO FAR

Posted on 30/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

~ Dylan Thomas ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Back, Bridges, Burning, Digital Imagery, Far, Future, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Traveler, Turn | 2 Comments

NEVER LOOKED BACK

Posted on 23/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“I never waste time looking back.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Back, Black, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Flames, Future, Horizon, Lick, Life, Looking Back, Memories, Night, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pitch, Poetry, Shroud, Sky, Smoke, Starless, Thirst, Time, Tongues | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Future

“To be or not to be isn’t the question.

The question is how to prolong being.”

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“So many books, so little time.”

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

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Like this:

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

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“The color of truth is gray.”

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“Over-consumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

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Like this:

“I can’t feel a thing;

All mournful petal storms are dancing

inside the very private spring of my head.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small.”

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:

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The curtains were made for moving

cause you know sometimes you’re not always there.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

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Like this:

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

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Like this:

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

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Like this:

“I never waste time looking back.”

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