Posts Tagged With: Gray

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

GRAY

Posted on 05/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“A gray day provides the best light.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Breezes, Colour, Darkness, Days, Digital Imagery, Gradients, Gravestone, Gray, Landscapes, Life, Mountains, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shadows, Summer, Time, Vistas, Wind, Windows | 1 Comment

PROPHECY

Posted on 13/06/2020 by Nightpoet

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

~ Charles Lamb ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of fifty years of hair (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

WOMAN

Posted on 08/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“You had the power all along my dear.”

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

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

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

ELIXIR

Posted on 17/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.”

~ Ernest Renan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman glass bottle taken in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Baby, Black, Bottle, Circles, Consciousness, Courage, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dizzy, Elixir, Future, Glass, Gray, Heart, Honeysuckle, Life, Lips, Midwife, Mother, Mouth, Past, Photography, Poetry, Taste, Time | 1 Comment

HOLEY HEAVENS

Posted on 29/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

~ Judy Garland ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chance, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Escape, Fate, Gray, Heavens, Hole, Imagination, Ladder, Life, Light, Photography, Poetry | Leave a comment

FLEETING HEART…

Posted on 07/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

~ Marian Keyes ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original 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, Photography, Polish, Solitude, Stones, Time, Tomb, Water | 1 Comment

STORM OVER PARIS

Posted on 19/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“There is always a storm. There is always rain.

Some experience it. Some live through it.

And others are made from it.”

~ Shannon L. Alder ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Colours, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Gray, Gutters, Light, Lightning, Lonely, Lost, Night, Painting, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Precipitation, Shadows, Storm, Thunder, Words | 1 Comment

OMBRES SUR MON MUR

Posted on 19/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

~ Rumi ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original 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

THE BOX

Posted on 09/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

~ James Joyce ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Box, Charade, Darkness, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Forgotten, Foundations, Future, Gray, History, Indifference, Life, Lock, Memories, Night, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Sky | 1 Comment

MOON DANCE

Posted on 13/11/2018 by Nightpoet

“And all the night’s magic seems to whisper and hush,

And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush,

Can I just have one more moondance with you, my love…”

~ Van Morrison ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blue, Colours, Dance, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fandango, Flow, Gray, Green, Heart, Hues, Life, Love, Moon, Muse, Night, Painting, Palette, Paradox, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Puzzle, Rainbow, Rising, Shadows, Sheets, Timberline | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Gray

“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:

“A gray day provides the best light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You had the power all along my dear.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is always a storm. There is always rain.

Some experience it. Some live through it.

And others are made from it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Like a shadow, I am and I am not.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And all the night’s magic seems to whisper and hush,

And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush,

Can I just have one more moondance with you, my love…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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