Posts Tagged With: Light

THE ABSURDITY OF LIGHT

Posted on 12/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“give me back all those things i never gave,

so I shan’t be able to take them to my grave,

the burning flames and the booming voice,

all the decisions that were never really a choice…”

~ nightpoet ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in England in June 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absence, Absurdity, Breath, Death, Digital Imagery, Light, Nothingness, Photography, Poetry, Sharing, Strength, Substance, Vision | 1 Comment

TAPIS

Posted on 01/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

~ Theodore Roethke ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Blossoms, Carpet, Colour, Curtain, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Hazy, Hot, Leaves, Light, Mid-Afternoon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisms, Song, Spring, Summer, Tapis, Time | 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

MOON WHISPERS

Posted on 16/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver.

Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken somewhere in west central France in 2006.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breasts, Breath, Digital Imagery, Kiss, Light, Moon, Night, Nipples, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Spires, Touch, Veil, Whisper | 1 Comment

MOULDY MOON

Posted on 29/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“How slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires…”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Branches, Desire, Digital Imagery, Dreaming, Light, Lost, Loves, Memory, Moon, Mould, Onion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sin, Skin, Window | 1 Comment

ONE MORNING’S MOON

Posted on 18/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“And he beholds the moon;

like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken circa 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Clef, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Disc, Light, Moon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precision, Scaffolding, Sky, Stave, Wind | 1 Comment

DUSTED WITH STARS

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”

~ Neil Gaiman ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma, the Canary Islands, in November 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banana Trees, Carpet, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Eyes, La Palma, Light, Moon, Palm Tree, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stars, Valley | 1 Comment

SITTING IN SILENCE

Posted on 22/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love:

one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.”

~ Cesare Pavese ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a self-portrait taken in August 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Colours, Digital Imagery, Goddesses, Gods, Gray, Language, Letters, Life, Light, Lines, Notation, Odds, Perspective, Photography, Pigment, Poetry, Prisms, Punctuation, Sacrifice, Shadows, Sight, Silence, Visions, Words | 1 Comment

NEVER SAW THE TEARS

Posted on 14/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

~ Voltaire ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Ears, Fame, Fire, Flames, Light, Moonlight, Moth, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Scream, Tears, Voice | 1 Comment

NO BOUNDARIES

Posted on 29/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”

~ Malcolm De Chazal ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a Cro-Magnon woman taken at the Lascaux III Exhibition in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boundaries, Cave, Curiosity, Desires, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Feelings, Fires, Language, Laughter, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smile, Syndrome, Translation | 1 Comment

INTO RAGE

Posted on 27/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement

inside our own skins, for life.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Armoire, Autumn, Boils, Days, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dust, Gray, Ideas, Isolation, Light, Music, Page, Pen, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rage, Shadows, Songs, Time, Window, Winds, Winter | 1 Comment

CREATION MYTH

Posted on 14/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“God made only water, but man made wine.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo called “Black Hole Event Horizon” taken sometime in early 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Blackness, Creation, Curiosity, Days, Digital Imagery, Feeling, Interest, Life, Light, Matter, Myth, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, The Beatles, Voice | 1 Comment

WICKED LIGHT

Posted on 04/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“She’s a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes.”

~ Jimi Hendrix ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Axe, Debauchery, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Flickered, Grin, Hair, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sin, Teats, Tree, Wicked, Witch | 1 Comment

SCRIPTURE

Posted on 18/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Avenues, Blood, Breezes, Cement, Cobbles, Cold, Corners, Cracks, Dancing, Darkness, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Document, Ice, Leaves, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preserve, Resurrection, Rooftop, Rumours, Scripture, Season, Semen, Shadows, Sisters, Slime, Snow, Spice, Stars, Streets, Tea, Towels, Trowels, Vowels, Wine | 1 Comment

THE SMOOTH BARED FLESH

Posted on 16/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,

with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”

~ William Blake ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Blue, Brown, Cirrus, Clouds, Cracks, Creases, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Earth, Fantasies, Featherbed, Fingers, Flesh, Green, Life, Light, Love, Milk, Moon, Nipple, Paris, Passions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quilt, Salt, Satiation, Sea, Silk, Slivers | 1 Comment

PUDDING

Posted on 13/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

~ Aesop ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Birds, Bright, Cradle, Credentials, Digital Imagery, Dotted Line, Essentials, Feather, Influential, Intelligent, Ladle, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Moon, Nest, Night, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pie-Eyed, Poetry, Potential, Pudding, Room, Shine, Sign, Slept, Soup, Stars | 1 Comment

WHEN I DIDN’T GET THERE

Posted on 08/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner

is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bag, Bones, Bottles, Digital Imagery, Green Man, Heathen, Hill, Jack, Jill, Light, Pail, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Steps, Stones, Street, There, Wall, Water | 1 Comment

PARADOX

Posted on 06/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“What? do I love her,

that I desire to hear her speak again,

and feast upon her eyes.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Brexit, Darkness, Day, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Expanse, Eyes, Life, Light, Love, Night, Painted, Paradox, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ravishes, Resonance, Seduces, Shadows, Silken, Skies, Stars, Tenebrous, Twilight, Unblemished, Unsuspecting, Vacuity, Voluptuous | 1 Comment

SING ELECTRIC

Posted on 17/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“O I say these are not the parts and poems

of the body only, but of the soul…”

~ Walt Whitman ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of the negative of a ruined Polaroid photo taken in late 1967.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acidic, Bridge, Bright, Chasms, Conversation, Day, Digital Imagery, Eccentric, Echoes, Electric, Emotions, Expressions, Imagination, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Music, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhymes, Rhythms, Scream, Sensation, Silence, Sing, Spasms, Speak, Spirit, Syllables, Tune, Voice | 1 Comment

POEM FROM THE BOTTOM OF A BLACK HOLE

Posted on 03/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“There are many black holes, and there are many universes.

Life is a never ending circle, and so too, is death.”

~ Anthony T. Hincks ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animosity, Black Holes, Bottom, Clarity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Escape, Existence, Fires, Future, Gravity, Imagination, Light, Light Years, Luminosity, Matter, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Particles, Past, Patterns, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Predictions, Pressure, Science, Sky, Soul, Stars, Sub-Atomic Energy, Thread, Time, Wisps, Words | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Light

“give me back all those things i never gave,

so I shan’t be able to take them to my grave,

the burning flames and the booming voice,

all the decisions that were never really a choice…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.”

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 see the moon like a clipped piece of silver.

Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“How slow this old moon wanes! She lingers my desires…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And he beholds the moon;

like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love:

one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Tears are the silent language of grief.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement

inside our own skins, for life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“God made only water, but man made wine.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“She’s a devil in disguise, I can tell by looking in her eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The moon, like a flower in heaven’s high bower,

with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner

is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What? do I love her,

that I desire to hear her speak again,

and feast upon her eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“O I say these are not the parts and poems

of the body only, but of the soul…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are many black holes, and there are many universes.

Life is a never ending circle, and so too, is death.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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