Posts Tagged With: History

IMMORTALITY

Posted on 07/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“A book is the only immortality.”

~ Rufus Choate ~

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

BRÛLANT

Posted on 02/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“How can you rise, if you have not burned.”

~ Hiba Fatima Ahmad ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beauty, Burning, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fire, History, Imagination, Life, Light, Literature, Love, Night, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art, Time, Window | 1 Comment

RÉVOLUTION

Posted on 01/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the police stopping demonstrators and searching their backpacks and hand bags taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Capitalist Pigs, Capitalists, Death, France, Future, History, Hope, Human Rights, Life, Minorities, No Future, Oligarchs, Oppressors, Paris, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Prosperity, Revolution, The Disenfranchised, The Elderly, The Poor, Voice, Walls, Working Classes | 3 Comments

LE TAUREAU

Posted on 29/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“We have invented nothing new.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

(after seeing the cave paintings of Lascaux)

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture by Ule Ewelt taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Art, Artist, Beast, Beauty, Bull, Cave, Cave Art, Cave Paintings, Charcoal, Colours, Dreamer, Hands, History, Human, Imagination, Lines, Ochre, Painting, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sketch, Spirit, Taurus, Time | Leave a comment

LUFTSCHUTZRAUM

Posted on 25/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“A great war leaves the country with three armies –

an army of cripples, an army of mourners,

and an army of thieves.”

~ German Proverb ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air Raid Shelter, Apocalypse, Bombers, Bombs, Corpses, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Entombed, Explosiions, Fire, Future, Germany, History, Inferno, Life, Luftschutzraum, Night, Past, Perspective, Photography, Rubble, Sirens, War | 2 Comments

SOMETHIN’ FISHY HERE

Posted on 24/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“Always and inevitably everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Bags, Bon Appétit, Bottles, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fish, Fishy, Future, History, Lakes, Life, Oceans, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plastic, Poetry, Rivers, Time, Water | 1 Comment

PHALLUS DEI

Posted on 16/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Cosmic, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Future, Gods, History, Life, Light, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Orgasm, Paradox, Past, Perspective, Phallus, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Time, Universe, Verisimilitude | 1 Comment

LOVE YOUR WORLD

Posted on 13/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War | 1 Comment

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

GIFT OF TONGUES

Posted on 06/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.”

~ William Golding ~