Posts Tagged With: Ignorance

A LOT OF CLOWNS

Posted on 22/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.”

~ Heinrich Heine ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acrobats, Antennae, Asses, Baboons, Beasts, Brainwashed, Carnival, Chalice, Chaos, Circles, Circus, Clowns, Death, Digital Imagery, Fool, Ignorance, Jugglers, Life, Lions, Mirrors, Parabolic, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pig, Pit, Play, Poetry, Price, Ticket, Tigers | 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

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

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

STAYING AFLOAT

Posted on 08/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“The world is filled with fools,

but none of them considers himself one,

or tries not to be one.”

~ Baltasar Gracián ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afloat, Awareness, Blind Belief, Common Sense, Comprehension, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Emotions, Exist, Facts, Flail, Flotsam, Flounder, Fools, Humanity, Ignorance, Imagination, Intolerance, Life, Noses, Nyaffs, Perception, Perspective, Perspicacity, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Prejudice, Reason, Reflections, Religion, Sea, Think, Water | 1 Comment

THE SIN OF THE CALF

Posted on 15/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“The God excuse, the last refuge of a man

with no answers and no argument.”

~ George Carlin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ass, Bible Babblers, Binge, Blasphemy, Confused, Darkness, Dazed, Desert, Dick, Digital Imagery, Face, Finger, Golden Calf, Ignorance, Moses, Mountain, Pants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Stick | 1 Comment

SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT US

Posted on 09/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

~ Edward Abbey ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Animals, Beauty, Birds, Consequences, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, Ignorance, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollution, Songs, Spring, Streets, Stupidity, Time, World | 1 Comment

CITADEL

Posted on 05/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are all born ignorant,

but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Citadel, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fortress, Future, Heart, Hours, Ignorance, Life, Love, Peasants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Safe, Shadows, Slaughter, Stupidity, Time, Weary | 1 Comment

THESE DARK DAYS

Posted on 01/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

~ Plato ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bounty, Care, Concern, Conscience, Darkness, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Empathy, Fear, Future, Harvest, Hatred, Heart, Ignorance, Kindness, Life, Light, Limits, Love, Perspective, Photography, Plentiful, Poetry, Positive, Rich, Safe, Seeds, Shared, Sickness, Strong, Time, Understanding | 2 Comments

NO GOD

Posted on 22/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anarchy, Ashes, Autumn, Avenues, Barbarism, Breath, Burned, Cadavers, Capitalism, Cathedral, Choke, Civilization, Contorted, Culture, Darkness, Death, Decency, Digital Imagery, Eat, Enlightenment, Food, Fools, God, Heart, Humanity, Ignorance, Leaves, Life, Money, No Future, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rags, Religion, Rich, Rubble, Shadows, Streets, Twisted, Virus | 1 Comment