Posts Tagged With: Light

THISTLES AND THORNS

Posted on 17/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

~ Rumi ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Song, Sublime, Thistles, Thorns | 1 Comment

THE PAINTER

Posted on 10/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Painting is silent poetry.”

~ Plutarch ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Black, Canvas, Colours, Creativity, Day, Digital Imagery, Gray, Hues, Life, Light, Night, Painting, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spectrum, Street Art, White | 1 Comment

SWANSONG

Posted on 05/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

~ James Joyce ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Revoir, Canary Islands, Couplets, Digital Imagery, Forever, Goblet, La Palma, Light, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sunset, Swansong, Wine | 3 Comments

AS ANOTHER DAY DAWNS

Posted on 31/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”

~ Alice Liddell ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2004.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balcony, Bees, Breeze, Chaos, Coda, Dawn, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyelids, Flowers, Insects, Jungle, Life, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Routine, Skin, Song, Storm Clouds, Symphony, Uncertainty | 1 Comment

NO ROOM FOR RAINBOWS

Posted on 17/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“The color of truth is gray.”

~ Andre Gide ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clothes, Clouds, Coffee, Digital Imagery, Future, Gray, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbows, Room, Sky, Steam, Window | 1 Comment

TETHYS

Posted on 05/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems,

involves the whole human race.”

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Aegean Sea between Thera (Santorini) and Crete in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aegean, Conflict, Dark, Death, Digital Imagery, Empty, Greed, Ignorance, Life, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Silent, Storms, Tethys, Violence, Waters | 1 Comment

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

Posts Tagged With: Light

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Painting is silent poetry.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow

of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The color of truth is gray.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems,

involves the whole human race.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“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:

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