Posts Tagged With: History

WASTED OPPORTUNITY

Posted on 07/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“…people choose to live in darkness, praying for a candle,

when all they really have to do is open their eyes…”

~ nightpoet ~

000 wasted opportunity 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a skull from a burial dated to the Late Roman Empire (3rd century CE) taken in June 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Astronomy, Awareness, Bone, Death, Digital Imagery, History, Life, Opportunity, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Science, Skin, Skull, Stars, Universe, Wasted Time | 1 Comment

SCHADENFREUDE

Posted on 08/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“Who controls the past controls the future.

Who controls the present controls the past.”

~ George Orwell ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Benightedness, Blindness, Denial, Digital Imagery, Egotistical, Embellishment, Fact, Fiction, Forgotten, History, Ignored, Insensitivity, Lessons, Opportunities, Pain, Pathological, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Schadenfreude, Shards, Suffering | 1 Comment

NEITHER HERE NOR THERE

Posted on 08/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bastille, Books, Bookshelves, Digital Imagery, Dust, Elysium, Future, Here, History, Hooks, Museum, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Poetry, Sanctuary, Skeletons, Solitude, There, Tomes | 1 Comment

AFTERLIFE

Posted on 12/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.

But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.

We are programmed to betray.”

~ Michael Ignatieff ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an archaeological find material storage depot taken in the early 1990’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Archaeology, Bones, Cartons, Catalogued, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eternity, Graves, Heaven, Hell, History, Illustrated, Life, Measured, Memories, Numbered, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resurrection, Reward, Shelves, Skeletons, Storeroom, Studied, Time | 3 Comments

BEFORE THE DOOM

Posted on 18/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Book, Broomstick, Buffalo, Digital Imagery, Doom, Fakir, Ground, Heart, History, Imagination, Leaf, Life, Love, Paris, Past, Photography, Pie, Plain, Poetry, Street Art, Wind, Words | 1 Comment

REVOLUTION IS FOREVER

Posted on 04/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“True revolution comes from true revulsion;

when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”

~ Charles Bukowski ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Roman sculpture of a Celtic warrior prisoner taken in January 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Authority, Change, Commitment, Corrupt, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dignity, Equality, Forever, Future, Hated, Heart, History, Human Rights, Individuals, Inequality, Injustice, Institutions, Justice, Life, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protection, Purge, Revolution, Sanctity, Streets, Strong, Vigilance | 1 Comment

AGELESS AM I

Posted on 28/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

~ George Carlin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Kinderdijk, Netherlands in April 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Cave Painters, Civilization, Colonialism, Cruelty, Dark Ages, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Egypt, Environment, Experiment, First Farmers, Future, Greed, Greeks, History, Ignorance, Industrial Revolution, Innocent, Life, Medieval Society, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Romans, Sumeria, The Enlightenment, Time, War | 1 Comment

EMPIRES

Posted on 16/05/2020 by Nightpoet

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

That’s what it is to be alive.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

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

MAMMOTH STEAKS

Posted on 30/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred;

a flint will break upon a feather bed.”

~ John Cleveland ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Debitage, Digital Imagery, Flint, Game, History, Knapping, Mammoth, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Point, Steaks, Survival, Technology, Time | 1 Comment

THEM THAT’S GOT SHALL HAVE

Posted on 29/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“Behind every great fortune is a crime.”

~ Honore de Balzac ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aristocracy, Beggar's Bowl, Blade, Bovine Bitch, Dandy, Death, Digital Imagery, Finery, Grim Reaper, Guillotine, History, Inequality, Laugh, Life, Money, Noses, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pittance, Poetry, Pseudo-Pomp, Riches, Severed Head, Smile, Sneer | 1 Comment

OTHER WORLDS

Posted on 03/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“There are times when we stop, we sit still.

We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”

~ James Carroll ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belief, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fantasy, Fight, Future, History, Imagination, Lies, Memories, Normal, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Revolution, Time, Tomorrow, Truth, Twisted, Warped, Worlds | 1 Comment

CAPITALISM MUST DIE

Posted on 26/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope.”

~ Joseph Stalin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Asthma, Avarice, Capitalism, Capitalist Pig, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fat Ass, Future, Greed, History, Lungs, Orange, Pension, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Shit Stained, Thighs, Weasel Eyes | 1 Comment

CREATIVITY

Posted on 18/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Art, Artistic Expression, Birth, Creativity, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Figurative, History, Humanity, Humans, Imagination, Inspiration, Language, Learned, Life, Mind, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Refined, Symbolically, Taught, Time, Unique | 1 Comment

THE IDES

Posted on 15/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“A great civilization is not conquered from without

until it has destroyed itself from within.”

~ Ariel Durant ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ass, Avarice, Baboons, Bodies, Burned, Capitalists, Civilizatiion, Corpses, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Drooling, Dust, Extinction, Face, Feet, Fiddle, Flesh, Future, Greed, History, Humanity, Lampposts, Life, Mask, Nero, No Future, Orange, Paris, Past, Perfume, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smoke, The Ides Of March, Time | 1 Comment

THE EXPERIMENT

Posted on 03/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are like butterflies that flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

– Carl Sagan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Chain, Comprehension, Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evolving, Existence, Experiment, Future, History, Imagination, Learning, Life, Light Years, Link, Metamorphosis, Nothing, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Possibilities, Science, Sentience, Stars, Time, Universe | 2 Comments

THE FORGOTTEN OLD MASTER

Posted on 26/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Clothes, Collectors, Countryside, Digital Imagery, Dutch, History, Laundry, Life, Mill, Museums, Painting, Past, Photography, Poetry, Villages, Windmills | 1 Comment

HATS OFF TO GOD

Posted on 21/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear,

explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belligerent, Binders, Bullshit, Chosen People, Conflicts, Death, Digital Imagery, Free Thought, God, History, Holier Than Thou, Intelligence, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Problems, Religion, Undies | 1 Comment

TOUCH THE PAST

Posted on 16/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows,

man is an invention of recent date.

And one perhaps nearing its end.”

~ Michel Foucault ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Documentation, Exposure, Find Material, Future, History, Illustration, Life, Memories, Past, Photography, Poetry, Science, Scraper, Shovel, Surveying, Time, Touch, Trowel, Years | 1 Comment

COMIC OPERA

Posted on 15/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity

is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

~ Voltaire ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman oil lamp, unearthed in a cremation burial, taken in September 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Act, Civilization, Comic Opera, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Encore, Existence, Flicker, History, Human Folly, Humans, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soot, Time | 1 Comment

THE END OF AN EMPIRE

Posted on 08/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“An intelligence that is not humane

is the most dangerous thing in the world .”

~ Ashley Montagu ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Avarice, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Empire, Future, History, Life, Machiavellianism, Opportunistic, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Rubble, Time, Winds | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: History

“…people choose to live in darkness, praying for a candle,

when all they really have to do is open their eyes…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Who controls the past controls the future.

Who controls the present controls the past.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The more powerful and original a mind,

the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.

But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.

We are programmed to betray.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“True revolution comes from true revulsion;

when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”

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:

“Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred;

a flint will break upon a feather bed.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Behind every great fortune is a crime.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are times when we stop, we sit still.

We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A great civilization is not conquered from without

until it has destroyed itself from within.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are like butterflies that flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear,

explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows,

man is an invention of recent date.

And one perhaps nearing its end.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity

is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“An intelligence that is not humane

is the most dangerous thing in the world .”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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