Posts Tagged With: Gray

prophecy

Posted on 13/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

~ Charles Lamb ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of fifty years of hair growth (from 1970 and 2020) taken in June 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Change, Digital Imagery, Fast, Gray, Green, Life, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophecy, Rain, Slow, Sun, Time, Wind, Years | 1 Comment

make art not war

Posted on 29/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“Art holds fast when all else is lost.”

~ German Proverb ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Brush, Digital Imagery, Gray, Life, Love, Painting, Paris, Passion, Pen, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Stubble, War, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

ombres sur mon mur

Posted on 09/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

~ Rumi ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fabric, Gray, Life, Nothingness, Perspective, Photography, Quiddity, Shadows, Soul, Sunlight, Umbra, Wall, Window | 3 Comments

woman

Posted on 08/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“You had the power all along my dear.”

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acumen, Affection, Ardour, Beauty, Cold, Compassion, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Drab, Emotions, Empathetic, Equals, Fair, Future, Gray, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Intelligence, Intuition, Just, Life, Love, Men, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Sensitivity, Sex, Sexuality, Sin, Sincerity, Subjugation, Violence, Woman, Women | 1 Comment

long hard cold dark lonely winter

Posted on 17/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Gray, Hope, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Winter | 1 Comment

THE PAINTER

Posted on 10/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Painting is silent poetry.”

~ Plutarch ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Black, Canvas, Colours, Creativity, Day, Digital Imagery, Gray, Hues, Life, Light, Night, Painting, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spectrum, Street Art, White | 1 Comment

THE LAST LEAF

Posted on 31/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

~ French Proverb ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Bees, Branches, Death, Digital Imagery, Gray, Leaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Trees, Wind, Winter | 1 Comment

THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T

Posted on 20/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

~ Hesiod ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Candle, Cold, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Dreary, Gray, Heart, Home, Hook, Hope, Moon, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Summer, Tendril, Winter | 1 Comment

NO ONE LISTENING

Posted on 06/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Curtain, Digital Imagery, Gray, Listening, Memory, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purple, River, Song, Stillness, Sun, Trees | 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

DESPITE IT ALL

Posted on 16/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

~ William Wallace ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2005.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canyon, Clouds, Colours, Demons, Digital Imagery, Door, Echoes, Gray, Kaleidoscope, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Room, Shooting Star, Street, Tongue, Trees, Walls, Words | 1 Comment

IMAGES ON A EUROPEAN DAY – PART ONE

Posted on 03/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.

They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.”

~ Edgar Allan Poe ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Babble, Bib, Bicker, Breezes, Changes, Circus, Cream, Digital Imagery, Dream, Goat, Gray, Milk, Nipple, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Sin, Snails, Snakes, Tea, Thought, Tongues, Words | 1 Comment

IN THE BALANCE

Posted on 08/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance

that their own human ancestors established.”

~ Joan D. Vinge ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021. Courtesy of Matschenbrei Photography GmbH.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Cages, Cold, Curtains, Digital Imagery, Distant, Fear, Gray, Hard, Indifferent, Isolation, Life, Normality, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Suspicion, Tear, Windows | 1 Comment

GOIN’ DOWN SLOW

Posted on 29/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Days, Digital Imagery, Down, Ebb, Flow, Gray, Green, Hope, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Slow, Snow, Spring, Tide | 1 Comment

BY NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GRAY

Posted on 07/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Women and cats will do as they please,

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bathe, Blood, Cats, Cheek, Digital Imagery, Fabric, Gray, Morning, Night, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Red, Ribbons, Sailors, Sky, Tear | 1 Comment

SITTING IN SILENCE

Posted on 22/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love:

one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.”

~ Cesare Pavese ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a self-portrait taken in August 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Colours, Digital Imagery, Goddesses, Gods, Gray, Language, Letters, Life, Light, Lines, Notation, Odds, Perspective, Photography, Pigment, Poetry, Prisms, Punctuation, Sacrifice, Shadows, Sight, Silence, Visions, Words | 1 Comment

WHAT WAS IT THEN

Posted on 25/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“I cannot sing the old songs,

or dream those dreams again.”

~ Charlotte Alington Barnard ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Certainties, Communicate, Decay, Digital Imagery, Give, Gray, Judge, Jury, Key, Lingered, Noon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Song, Time, Truth, Tune, Warmth | 1 Comment

PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE

Posted on 24/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Existence is a series of footnotes

to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Dark, Day, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Gray, Head, Morning, Night, Nonexistence, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Pièce De Résistance, Pillow, Poetry | 1 Comment

HORSEHEAD RHYTHMS

Posted on 28/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“The color of truth is gray.”

~ Andre Gide ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Branches, Cracks, Digital Imagery, Gables, Gray, Gutters, Horsehead, Patches, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rhythms, Ribbons, Sky, Sun, Thatches, Trees, Winds | 1 Comment

INTO RAGE

Posted on 27/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement

inside our own skins, for life.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Armoire, Autumn, Boils, Days, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dust, Gray, Ideas, Isolation, Light, Music, Page, Pen, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rage, Shadows, Songs, Time, Window, Winds, Winter | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Gray

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Art holds fast when all else is lost.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You had the power all along my dear.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Painting is silent poetry.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The color of truth is gray.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.

They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance

that their own human ancestors established.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Women and cats will do as they please,

and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love:

one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I cannot sing the old songs,

or dream those dreams again.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Existence is a series of footnotes

to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The color of truth is gray.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement

inside our own skins, for life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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