Posts Tagged With: Horizon

the load

Posted on 12/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.”

~ Phillips Brooks ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beginning, Breathe, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Flavour, Horizon, Life, Load, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Second Chance, Struggle | 1 Comment

this excrement unction

Posted on 14/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bones, Darkness, Demons, Devil, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Empty, Excrement, Exhaustion, Exorcism, Forbidden, Heart, Hopes, Horizon, Lolita, Long, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sense, Short, Soul, Struggle, Unction | 1 Comment

PHASES AND SHADOWS

Posted on 31/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

~ John Greaves ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Revoir, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fate, Friends, Horizon, Life, Light, Memories, Moon, Night, Nowhere, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Phases, Photography, Poetry, Street, Truth | 1 Comment

REDOLENCE

Posted on 27/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“Ah, but I was so much older then,

I’m younger than that now…”

~ Bob Dylan ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dream, Embrace, Horizon, Love, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pillow, Poetry, Promise, Scent, Silent, Soft | 1 Comment

DANCES I NEVER DANCED

Posted on 04/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Opportunity is a bird that never perches.”

~ Claude Maxwell MacDonald ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Dance, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Game, Hope, Horizon, Photography, Poetry, Puppet, Strings, Time, Winds | 1 Comment

ONE DAY LESS

Posted on 01/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“But dare rather to quit the platform,

plunge into the sublime seas,

dive deep, and swim far…”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Digitally enhanced painting created in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Day, Digital Imagery, Exercise, Forever, Future, Horizon, Life, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Sublime, Success, Youth | 1 Comment

THIS EXCREMENT UNCTION

Posted on 30/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

ONE LONG LAST LOOK

Posted on 05/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

~ Donna Tartt ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balcony, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Forever, Gone, Haze, Horizon, Look, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Ship, Sun, Tears, Water | 1 Comment

THE DANCES I NEVER DANCED

Posted on 27/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

~ James Richardson ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Burns, Chances, Clouds, Dances, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Future, Game, Helpless, Hope, Horizon, Life, Love, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puppet, Street Art, Strings, Time, Winds, Wings | 1 Comment

NEVER LOOKED BACK

Posted on 23/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“I never waste time looking back.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Back, Black, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Flames, Future, Horizon, Lick, Life, Looking Back, Memories, Night, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pitch, Poetry, Shroud, Sky, Smoke, Starless, Thirst, Time, Tongues | 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.

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 | 3 Comments

BANDORA’S POX

Posted on 06/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!

What a monster… what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”

~ Blaise Pascal ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Caskets, Confusion, Creativity, Death, Deathsong, Debate, Digital Imagery, Flame, Horizon, Illusion, Innuendo, Lanes, Life, Perspective, Persuasion, Photography, Pigskin, Poetry, Pox, Promise, Rhetoric, Seas, Songs, Water, Waves, Wood, Worm, Zodiac | 1 Comment

AS WE ONCE KNEW IT

Posted on 24/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“As beings, we should not strive to change the world but change ourselves.

For if we change ourselves all things are possible.”

~ Henry Johnson Jr. ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Rethymno on the Island of Crete in 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Change, Clouds, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fear, Fools, Future, Horizon, Ignorance, Innocent, Life, Memories, Morning, Normal, Optimistic, Past, Photography, Poetry, Survival, Time, Uncertainty, World | 1 Comment

FLOAT AWAY…

Posted on 21/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“As they expect to see you drowning, keep on floating.”

~ Gift Gugu Mona ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boat, Clear, Float, Horizon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pondering, Sea, Storm | 1 Comment

HORIZON

Posted on 11/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“No borders, just horizons – only freedom.”

~ Amelia Earhart ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aware, Bad Feeling, Death, Delusion, Digital Imagery, Distance, Existence, Fact, Future, Horizon, Illusion, Imagination, Inside, Life, Past, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Trouble, Unreachable | 1 Comment

BACKWARDS IN HIEROGLYPHICS

Posted on 11/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas.

Casual curses are the most effective.”

~ William S. Burroughs ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020. Photo courtesy of W. Feger’s German Geological Service GmbH.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Backwards, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Experience, Eye, Gods, Heart, Hieroglyphics, Hope, Horizon, Imagination, Intonations, Life, Moonless, Night, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soul, Starless, Stone, Theft, Vacuum, Walls | 1 Comment

WHEN I STILL HAD TIME TO DREAM

Posted on 07/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Lost time is never found again.”

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aroused, Beauty, Creativity, Curtain, Dawn, Dream, Emotions, Exhausted, Eyes, Fantasies, Future, Horizon, Ideas, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, Painting, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Sandals, Sunset, Time, Words, Write | 1 Comment

PHASES AND SHADOWS

Posted on 25/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then,

it’s the same thing…”

~ John Greaves ~

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

OBSCURED BY CLOUDS

Posted on 17/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”

~Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples taken in August 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Breath, Breezes, Clouds, Compass, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, Dreams, Encore, Horizon, Life, Memories, Moon, Mythos, Navigation, Night, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stars, Storms, Summer, Tragicomedy | 1 Comment

WINTERTIDE SOLSTICE

Posted on 21/12/2018 by Nightpoet

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”

~ Hal Borland ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Full Moon, Horizon, Night, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Seasons, Shadows, Skies, Solstice, Spring, Time, Winter, Wintertide, Words | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Horizon

“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Ah, but I was so much older then,

I’m younger than that now…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Opportunity is a bird that never perches.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“But dare rather to quit the platform,

plunge into the sublime seas,

dive deep, and swim far…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I never waste time looking back.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!

What a monster… what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“As beings, we should not strive to change the world but change ourselves.

For if we change ourselves all things are possible.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“As they expect to see you drowning, keep on floating.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“No borders, just horizons – only freedom.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas.

Casual curses are the most effective.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Lost time is never found again.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then,

it’s the same thing…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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