Posts Tagged With: Labyrinth

the cosmic lie of reason

Posted on 10/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”

~ Mark Nepo ~

000 the cosmic lie of reason

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chaos, Complexity, Constant, Digital Imagery, Disguise, Energy, Experiences, Fate, Happens, Happenstance, Illogical, Labyrinth, Levels, Life, Order, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Planning, Poetry, Purpose, Randomness, Reason, Relationships, Threads, Void | 3 Comments

réminiscences

Posted on 03/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

000 réminiscences 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Existence, Feelings, Forgetfulness, Images, Impressions, Labyrinth, Lepidopterist, Mazes, Meaninglessness, Memories, Mind, Moments, Mosaic, Moths, Net, Oblivion, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Thoughts, Wings | 1 Comment

like the moon

Posted on 14/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

~ Gregory Maguire ~

000 like the moon 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dark Side, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Labyrinth, Life, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art | 3 Comments

pourboire

Posted on 18/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Take time out for yourself and love the person in the mirror.”

~ Dee Waldeck ~

000 pourboire 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ariadne, Awareness, Consciousness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Existence, Intellect, Labyrinth, Life, Night, Pandora's Box, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pourboire, Serve, Theseus, Thread, Universe | 1 Comment

season of silence

Posted on 21/08/2022 by Nightpoet

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”

~ Haruki Murakami ~

000 season of silence 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 2002.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animosity, Carrion Crow, Cold, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Forgetfulness, Hapless, Helpless, Hopeless, Labyrinth, Laughter, Life, Loathing, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purgatory, Seasons, Shadows, Silence, Snow, Struggle, Summer, Survive, Time, Trust | 1 Comment

requital

Posted on 11/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“La vie est trop courte pour boire du mauvais vin.”

“Life is too short to drink bad wine.”

~ Anonymous ~

000 requital

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in September 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Consciousness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Existence, Labyrinth, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 4 Comments

CAGES

Posted on 30/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“The eyes of others our prisons;

their thoughts our cages.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Addictions, Cages, Death, Deception, Delusion, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Freedom, Hunger, Imperfection, Irrationality, Labyrinth, Life, Logic, Obsessions, Photography, Poetry, Promises, Truth | 1 Comment

ARIADNE’S THREAD

Posted on 23/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne…”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the woods near Messel, Germany in October 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ariadne, Bark, Digital Imagery, Labyrinth, Mazes, Minotaur, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Theseus, Thread | 1 Comment

DAUGHTER OF THE MOON

Posted on 11/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in her circled orb,

lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Cheek, Daughter, Hook, Labyrinth, Line, Moon, Night, Old, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Sun, Voice, Young | 1 Comment

RUTHSONG

Posted on 10/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“i wrote this when i was twenty-one for a very talented

lovely lady cellist who graced my life briefly…”

~ erik geoffrey barth a.k.a. nightpoet ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a July 2020 scan of a card made 48 years ago by Ruth.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Blue, Carrion, Cold, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dusk, Ears, Forest, Glacier, Green, Grins, Heart, Labyrinth, Love, Memories, Moon, Mountains, Music, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, River, Ruth, Stars, Strings, Time, Trees, Valleys, Visions, Yellow | 1 Comment

SEASON OF SILENCE

Posted on 15/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“I said nothing for a time,

just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness

that had been left inside me.”

~ Haruki Murakami ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in 2002.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animosity, Carrion Crow, Cold, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Forgetfulness, Hapless, Helpless, Hopeless, Labyrinth, Laughter, Life, Loathing, Memories, Past, Photography, Poetry, Purgatory, Seasons, Shadows, Silence, Snow, Struggle, Summer, Survive, Time, Trust | 1 Comment

LIKE THE MOON

Posted on 16/02/2019 by Nightpoet

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

~ Gregory Maguire ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dark Side, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Labyrinth, Life, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art | 1 Comment

IN THE GARDEN OF THE HONEYED MOON

Posted on 14/11/2018 by Nightpoet

“I have so much that I want to say to you,

but I can’t say a word.”

~ Michelle Burns ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris taken in Paris in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Creativity, Emotions, Heart, Individuality, Labyrinth, Life, Love, Mask, Moon, Muse, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, The Fates, Work In Progress | 2 Comments

RÉMINISCENCES

Posted on 22/08/2018 by Nightpoet

“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Existence, Feelings, Forgetfulness, Images, Impressions, Labyrinth, Lepidopterist, Mazes, Meaninglessness, Memories, Mind, Moments, Mosaic, Moths, Net, Oblivion, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Thoughts, Wings | 1 Comment

LUMINÈRE DE RUE

Posted on 08/06/2018 by Nightpoet

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.“

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hopes, Illumination, Labyrinth, Light, Night, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Sidewalks, Streetlamps, Streets | 1 Comment

UNDER GLASS

Posted on 12/04/2018 by Nightpoet

“All paths are seen, through the prism of fate.”

~ Mladen Đorđević ~

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in October 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aroused, Asleep, Butterfly, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Glass, Hallucination, Labyrinth, Lens, Lepidopterist, Photography, Poetry, Under Glass, Wings | 1 Comment

CAGES

Posted on 30/03/2018 by Nightpoet

“The eyes of others our prisons;

their thoughts our cages.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

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

PATTERNS

Posted on 09/09/2017 by Nightpoet

“The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

~ Bruce Lee ~

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

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Ariadne, Digital Imagery, Labyrinth, Life, Minotaur, Paris, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Theseus | 1 Comment

MOON RISING

Posted on 25/08/2017 by Nightpoet

“Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath

hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2014.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blood, Death, Digital Imagery, Fangs, Labyrinth, Life, Love, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Vampire | 1 Comment

THE RED DOOR

Posted on 02/08/2017 by Nightpoet

“Be first and be lonely.”

~ Ginni Rometty ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Place des Vosges, Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Door, Emotions, Heart, Illusion, Intellect, Labyrinth, Life, Love, Lovers, Paris, Passage, Patience, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Labyrinth

“…there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Take time out for yourself and love the person in the mirror.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“La vie est trop courte pour boire du mauvais vin.”

“Life is too short to drink bad wine.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The eyes of others our prisons;

their thoughts our cages.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in her circled orb,

lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“i wrote this when i was twenty-one for a very talented

lovely lady cellist who graced my life briefly…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I said nothing for a time,

just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness

that had been left inside me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have so much that I want to say to you,

but I can’t say a word.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.“

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All paths are seen, through the prism of fate.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The eyes of others our prisons;

their thoughts our cages.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath

hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Be first and be lonely.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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