Posts Tagged With: Inspiration

dreamcanvas

Posted on 18/02/2023 by Nightpoet

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,

life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

~ Langston Hughes ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in June 2006.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adventure, Amazement, Beach, Blues, Brushes, Canvas, Colours, Creative Spirit, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Expeditions, Explorations, Fantasies, Feeling, France, Grays, Greens, Impressions, Inspiration, Painting, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sensation, Tans, Wonder | 1 Comment

creation chimera

Posted on 11/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.”

~ Kathleen Raine ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in July 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Babble, Breathe, Brine, Digital Imagery, Inspiration, Life, Lips, Memories, Moments, Muse, New, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poet, Poetry | 4 Comments

towards the light

Posted on 07/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Clouds, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Fate, Future, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Ironic, Life, Light, Memories, Old, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sagacity, Satisfaction, Sentience, Thirst, Time, Vision, Young, Youth | 1 Comment

the performance

Posted on 26/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

~ Noel Coward ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afternoon, Audience, Born, Conceived, Creativity, Curtain, Dancer, Death, Digital Imagery, Documentarian, Dreams, Experiences, Fantasies, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Mask, Musician, Night, Painter, Performance, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potter, Sculptor, Stage | 1 Comment

ear worms

Posted on 06/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“Hums aren’t things which you get; they get you.”

~ Winnie the Pooh ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Digital Imagery, Discipline, Ear Worms, Ebony, Emotions, Fabric, Imagination, Inspiration, Ivory, Life, Music, Paris, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Technique, Threads | 1 Comment

life’s blood

Posted on 23/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

~ Alison Prince ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Air, Alive, Blood, Chaos, Consequences, Creativity, Darkness, Death, Desires, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hate, Heart, High Tide, Imagination, Inhumanity, Inspiration, Life, Love, Old Age, Old Man, Page, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Shadow, Slings And Arrows, Time, Vibrant, Violence, War | 1 Comment

poetree

Posted on 16/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

~ Jean Cocteau ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anticipation, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Grammar, Green, Imagination, Insanity, Inspiration, Leaves, Life, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Proverbs, Roots, Seasons, Seeds, Trees, Words | 1 Comment

sing me a soft song of my childhood

Posted on 20/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Childhood, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dungeon, Energy, Face, Freedom, Hands, Inspiration, Life, Love, Lullaby, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shroud, Silence, Solitude, Song, Spring, Summer, Veil, Withered, Wrinkled | 4 Comments

la muse

Posted on 08/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“Fool,” said my muse to me. “Look in thy heart and write.”

~ Philip Sidney ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Cocoon, Consciousness, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Love, Muse, Music, Night, Ouevres, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Shadows, Songs, Source, Thoughts, Wellspring, Words | 1 Comment

vanishing footprints

Posted on 20/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“I dwell in a lonely house I know that vanished many a summer ago.”

~ Robert Frost ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brimful, Chance, Circumstance, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Footprints, Giving, Inspiration, Legacy, Life, Losing, Love, Overflowing, Overwhelming, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shared, Taking, Tide, Time, Winning | 1 Comment

rainbows raining down

Posted on 07/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dust, Ears, Eyes, Fingers, Flowers, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Light, Memories, Music, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisons, Rainbows, Ribbons, Song, Sound, Spring, Time, Window | 1 Comment

l’extase de l’insomnie

Posted on 06/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“Sleeping is no mean art:

for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Ecstasy, Insomnia, Inspiration, Night, Nightmare, Photography, Poetry, Psychosomatic, Sleep, Somnambulism | 1 Comment

élan vital

Posted on 24/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“The only truth is music.”

~ Jack Kerouac ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Cadence, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Inspiration, Life, Light, Love, Measure, Modulation, Momentum, Music, Night, Paris, Path, Photography, Poetry, Pulse, Pure, Soul, Sound, Spirits, Tempo, Thought, Voices | 1 Comment

BEGGAR’S BOWL

Posted on 08/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“It is safer to beg than to take,

but it is finer to take than to beg.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Begging, Bowl, Digital Imagery, Form, Imagination, Inspiration, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sense, Sound, Tense, Verbal Expression, Vocables, Words | 1 Comment

WORDSMITH

Posted on 06/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,

but what we are unable to say.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alliteration, Beauty, Bellows, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Elucidation, Forge, Hammer, Imagination, Ingot, Innovation, Inspiration, Intrinsic, Life, Linguistic, Literature, Music, Nuance, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Semantics, Tongs, Wisdom, Wordsmith | 1 Comment

WIND DIRECTION DETERMINED

Posted on 19/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die

life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.”

~ Langston Hughes ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2000.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Colour, Digital Imagery, Dirt, Doldrums, Fingers, Flight Of Fancy, Imagination, Inspiration, Light, Nose, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smoke, Wall, Wind | 1 Comment

WETSTEPS

Posted on 01/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“I feared this once, but I never knew that a sky so black, was once so blue.”

~ Billy J. Barnum ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Ghost, Inspiration, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rainbow, Sheet, Steps, Street, Tired, Words, Write | 1 Comment

THE PERFORMANCE

Posted on 03/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

~ Noel Coward ~

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

RIDDLES

Posted on 07/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“I am a man of few words, but many riddles.”

~ Frank Gorshin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Baby, Bed, Boy, Canvas, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Hand, Head, Information, Inspiration, Language, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Relationships, Riddles, Scouts, Season, Song, Winter | 1 Comment

THE SECRET OF THE PARADOX

Posted on 25/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Ah, but I was so much younger then…”

~ nightpoet ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arms, Died, Digital Imagery, Direction, Emotions, Eyes, Feast, Frames, Hungry, Inspiration, Life, Love, Memories, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Poetry, Secret, Sighs, Street Art, Time, Woman, Young | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Inspiration

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,

life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Hums aren’t things which you get; they get you.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Fool,” said my muse to me. “Look in thy heart and write.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I dwell in a lonely house I know that vanished many a summer ago.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sleeping is no mean art:

for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only truth is music.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is safer to beg than to take,

but it is finer to take than to beg.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,

but what we are unable to say.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die

life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I feared this once, but I never knew that a sky so black, was once so blue.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Just know your lines and don’t bump into the furniture.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I am a man of few words, but many riddles.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Ah, but I was so much younger then…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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