Posts Tagged With: Inspiration

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.

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

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

POET TREE

Posted on 11/07/2020 by Nightpoet

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

~ Jean Cocteau ~

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

NO WORDS

Posted on 01/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“I have no words for my reality.”

~ Max Frisch ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Avenues, Bathe, Beauty, Bed, Breathe, Darkness, Depression, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Emotions, Fountain, Heart, Imagination, Inhale, Inspiration, Life, Love, Memories, Morning, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sanctuary, Smile, Soul, Spring, Warm, Words | 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

TOWARDS THE LIGHT

Posted on 10/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

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

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original 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

WINDOW OF IMAGINATION

Posted on 27/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Beauty, Birth, Clay, Creativity, Darkness, Different, Digital Imagery, Formed, Future, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Light, New, Night, No Name, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Unique | 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

EAR WORMS

Posted on 07/12/2019 by Nightpoet

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

~ Winnie the Pooh ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original 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, Photography, Poetry, Technique, Threads | 1 Comment

REFLECTIONS BLENDING

Posted on 11/08/2019 by Nightpoet

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

~ Elias Canetti ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hallucinations, Hazards, Inspiration, Life, Memories, Murdered, Muse, Nightmares, Obstacles, Paris, Party, Passion, Past, Phantasms, Photography, Phrases, Poetry, Promise, Purgatory, Time, Visions | 1 Comment

CURLED IN THE AFTERGLOW

Posted on 21/06/2019 by Nightpoet

“I like my afterglow with you in motion.

I measure time by how your body sways.”

~ Jennifer Crusie ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of “aux bras levés,” (1890), a painting by Marie Laprade, taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterglow, Art, Beauty, Caring, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Forgiveness, Heart, Heartless, Imagination, Indifference, Inspiration, Kind, Life, Love, Memories, Model, Morning, Muse, Painting, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Summer, Taste | 2 Comments

THE NIGHT COMES DOWN

Posted on 04/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“One should always be drunk.

That’s all that matters…

But with what?

With wine, with poetry, or with virtue,

as you choose. But get drunk.”

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dionysus, Embrace, Emotions, Fireflies, Heart, Inspiration, Life, Love, Muse, Night, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stairs, Stars, Wine, Words | 1 Comment

L’EXTASE DE L’INSOMNIE

Posted on 10/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“Sleeping is no mean art:

for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

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

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

WORDSMITH

Posted on 15/03/2019 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 an original 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, Photography, Poetry, Semantics, Tongs, Wisdom, Wordsmith | 1 Comment

RAINBOWS RAINING DOWN

Posted on 12/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“Poetry is a phantom script

telling how rainbows are made

and why they go away.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

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

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

REFLECTING IN THE LIGHT

Posted on 18/02/2019 by Nightpoet

“The shadows: some hide, others reveal.”

~Antonio Porch ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, City Of Light, Creative Spirit, Creativity, Emotions, Heart, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Muse, Paradox, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Wonders | 1 Comment

MUSING

Posted on 17/12/2018 by Nightpoet

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bower, Bright, Digital Imagery, Holes, Inspiration, Life, Love, Muse, Oozing, Passion, Photography, Pockets, Poetry, Shining, Smile, Surprises, Wine | 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:

“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:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have no words for my reality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

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:

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Lost time is never found again.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I like my afterglow with you in motion.

I measure time by how your body sways.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One should always be drunk.

That’s all that matters…

But with what?

With wine, with poetry, or with virtue,

as you choose. But get drunk.”

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 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:

“Poetry is a phantom script

telling how rainbows are made

and why they go away.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The shadows: some hide, others reveal.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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