Posts Tagged With: Ghosts

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

morning mists

Posted on 29/08/2022 by Nightpoet

“Knowledge would be fatal.

It is the uncertainty that charms one.

A mist makes things wonderful.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

000 morning mists 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 1986.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Choirs, Digital Imagery, Ghosts, Impatience, Lips, Mist, Morning, Noon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Spirits, Sunrise | 1 Comment

the ghosts of my life

Posted on 04/08/2022 by Nightpoet

“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

~ Lauren Oliver ~

000 the ghosts of my life 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a Polaroid negative taken sometime around 1970.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Edge, Faces, Faux Pas, Ghosts, Haunt, Horizon, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Past, Patience, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stone, Time | 1 Comment

fantômes

Posted on 24/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

~ John Malkovich ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cheeks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Eyes, Faces, Friends, Future, Ghosts, Hissing, Letters, Life, Memories, Mirror, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rots, Shadows, Shredder, Skin, Texts, Time, Whispering | 2 Comments

a place i called home

Posted on 22/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“There are places we fear, places we dream,

places whose exiles we became

and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

~Thomas Pynchon ~

000 a place i called home

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ambience, Atmosphere, Danced, Digital Imagery, Floor, Fluid, Ghosts, Home, Immersion, Life, Light, Lighting, Objects, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Place, Poetry, Pools, Secretions, Shadows, Silence, Sound, Street Art, Walls | 3 Comments

no, no, no

Posted on 14/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

~ Plato ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in 1961.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Body Bags, Cannon Fodder, Death, Deserts, Digital Imagery, Disabled, Flags, Ghosts, Homeless, Jungles, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Swamps, War | 1 Comment

MEMORIES

Posted on 21/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“The days are short, the sun a spark

hung thin between the dark and dark.”

~ John Updike ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Affection, Bones, Branches, Corpses, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Ghosts, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Warmth | 1 Comment

THE GHOSTS OF MY LIFE

Posted on 18/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

~ Lauren Oliver ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of an unknown photo format taken sometime around 1970.

FANTÔMES

Posted on 10/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

~ John Malkovich ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cheeks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Eyes, Faces, Friends, Future, Ghosts, Hissing, Letters, Life, Memories, Mirror, Oblivion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Rots, Shadows, Shredder, Skin, Texts, Time, Whispering | 3 Comments

THE GHOSTS OF THINGS UNREMEMBERED

Posted on 11/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original 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, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

HOLLOW SPACES

Posted on 06/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”

~ Raymond Chandler ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Ghosts, Goats, Hollow Spaces, Hopes, Light, Notes, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Warning, Whisper, Words | 1 Comment

MIRROROLOGY

Posted on 11/12/2018 by Nightpoet

“A photograph must come from imagination

and not be a reflection of what is.”

~ Thierry Mugler ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Angles, Avenues, Day, Digital Imagery, Ghosts, Haunting, Heart, Life, Mirrorology, Night, Paris, Past, Perspectives, Photography, Poetry, Pondering, Reflections, Rues, Spectre, Streets, Wandering | 1 Comment

HALF MOON HIDING

Posted on 26/03/2018 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 March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Ghosts, Half Moon, Hiding, Life, Memories, Moon, Night, Passion, Photography, Poetry, River, Shadows, Wraiths | 1 Comment

MEMORIES

Posted on 07/12/2017 by Nightpoet

“The days are short
The sun a spark
Hung thin between
The dark and dark.“

~ John Updike ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in December 2017 and kindly provided by DePiero and Associates.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Affection, Bones, Branches, Corpses, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Ghosts, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Warmth | 1 Comment

SAMHAIN

Posted on 31/10/2017 by Nightpoet

“Auld Daddy Darkness creeps frae his hole,
Black as a blackamoor, blin’ as a mole…”

~ James Ferguson ~

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

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Ghosts, Graveyard, Halloween, Night, November, October, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Samhain, Souls, Spirits | 1 Comment

LAISSANT VIE

Posted on 22/10/2017 by Nightpoet

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old,

but that one is young.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the grave of Dr. Paul Curlay in the Cimetière du Montparnasse taken in Paris in August 2017.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Death, Digital Imagery, Ghosts, Laissant Vie, Leaving, Lies, Life, Memories, Night, Old, Old Age, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Shadows, Time | 1 Comment

MORNING MISTS

Posted on 22/12/2016 by Nightpoet

“A feeling of sadness and longing,

that is not akin to pain,

and resembles sorrow only

as the mist resembles the rain.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Glauberg, Germany in July 1986.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Ghosts, Mist, Morning, Noon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Spirits, Sunrise | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Ghosts

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Knowledge would be fatal.

It is the uncertainty that charms one.

A mist makes things wonderful.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are places we fear, places we dream,

places whose exiles we became

and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The days are short, the sun a spark

hung thin between the dark and dark.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A photograph must come from imagination

and not be a reflection of what is.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dream as if you’ll live forever.

Live as if you’ll die today.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The days are short The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark.“

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Auld Daddy Darkness creeps frae his hole, Black as a blackamoor, blin’ as a mole…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old,

but that one is young.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A feeling of sadness and longing,

that is not akin to pain,

and resembles sorrow only

as the mist resembles the rain.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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