Posts Tagged With: Future

halcyon

Posted on 24/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

000 halcyon 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

and yet

Posted on 23/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”

~ Paulo Coelho ~

000 and yet

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Future, Hands, Horizon, Landscape, Life, Love, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soft, Spirit, Touch, Treasure Chest, Vista, Warm, Willing | 1 Comment

peace

Posted on 27/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

~ George Carlin ~

000 peace 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Avarice, Awareness, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fanatics, Future, Greed, History, Life, Love, Mercy, Nightmare, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Self-Aggrandizement, Selfishness, War, Wealth, Weapons | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 10/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 the ghosts of things unremembered 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

fleeting heart

Posted on 26/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

~ Marian Keyes ~

000 fleeting heart 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Alone, Child, Choice, Circumstance, Death, Digital Imagery, Edges, Feeble, Future, Gray, Heart, Life, Old, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polish, Solitude, Stones, Time, Tomb, Water | 1 Comment

laughs in your face

Posted on 23/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

~ Jim Morrison

000 laughs in your face 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Cheats, Clocks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Equality, Equalizer, Face, Future, Laughs, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reaper, Shadows, Shiver, Smile, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

waiting for the end

Posted on 21/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

~ Maurice Chevalier ~

000 waiting for the end

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Companions, Death, Digital Imagery, End, Friends, Future, Goodbyes, Icons, Idols, Life, Obliquity, Oblivion, Obscurity, Opaque, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shroud, Soliloquy, Vigil, Waiting | 1 Comment

larmes de bleu

Posted on 16/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

000 larmes de bleu 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Faux Pas, Follies, Future, Life, Light, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Soul, Tears, Time, Weep, Window | 1 Comment

l’ombre de la mort

Posted on 15/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

~ Thomas Browne ~

000 l’ombre de la mort 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Companion, Conception, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Hourglass, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Time | 3 Comments

be we

Posted on 13/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 be we 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Children, Clowns, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Food, Fools, Future, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lies, Life, Merit, Morals, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Puppets, Shills, Skills, Wisdom | 1 Comment

empires

Posted on 10/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

000 empires 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage | 1 Comment

towards the light

Posted on 07/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

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

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

000 towards the light 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a 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

thin around cause

Posted on 28/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

000 thin around cause 1

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

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

draws the bow

Posted on 02/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“After silence, that which comes nearest

to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

000 draws the bow 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bow, Cadence, Composition, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Ear, Emotions, Future, Heart, Life, Love, Melody, Motion, Music, Notes, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbow, Sensuous, Song, Street Art, Strings, Time, Tone | 1 Comment

le penseur

Posted on 29/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Voltaire ~

000 le penseur 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Art, Avarice, Awareness, Beauty, Compassion, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Enlightenment, Fools, Future, History, Idiots, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lemmings, Life, Literature, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progress, Propaganda, Science, Shadows, Stupidity, Thinking, Time, Transition, Wisdom | 1 Comment

new skin for old

Posted on 22/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

~ William Butler Yeats ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altar, Bliss, Blood, Creature, Digital Imagery, Dunes, Experience, Future, Grasses, Innocence, Lambs, Life, Love, Metamorphosis, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Routine, Slaughtered, Summer, Wound, Youth | 1 Comment

as if they never were

Posted on 17/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“The earth doesn’t care about humanity,

but humanity had better start caring about the earth.”

~ Erik Barth ~

000 as if they never were 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cliffs, Clouds, Clueless, Cold, Digital Imagery, Future, Horizon, Laughing, Lemmings, Madness, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rocks, Sadness, Splattering, Storm, Stupidity, Tide | 1 Comment

child

Posted on 28/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”

~ Margaret Mead ~

000 child 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris in November 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Catastrophe, Children, Creative Expression, Digital Imagery, Environment, Freedom Of Speech, Future, Hate, Innocence, Intolerance, Legacy, Nightmare, No Future, Oligarchic, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plutocratic, Poetry, Racism, Servitude, Theocratic, Trust, Violence, Wonder | 1 Comment

denudation

Posted on 20/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

~ French proverb ~

000 denudation 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Bones, Cold, Demons, Denudation, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Frigid, Future, Ladybug, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Streets, Trees, Warmth, Winds, Winter | 1 Comment

le cadeau

Posted on 03/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“We are always the same age inside.”

~ Gertrude Stein ~

000 le cadeau 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Beauty, Dawn, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Experience, Eyes, Future, Gift, Life, Memories, Mirror, Morning, Mosaic, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbow, Time, Weary, Wisdom, Youth | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Future

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

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“Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly”

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“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

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“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

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“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

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“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

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Like this:

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

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Like this:

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“After silence, that which comes nearest

to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The earth doesn’t care about humanity,

but humanity had better start caring about the earth.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are always the same age inside.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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