THISTLES AND THORNS

 

“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.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

LAST LEAF

 

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

 

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

 

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

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

L’AMOUR EST MORT

 

“Now you’re just a stranger, with all my secrets.”

 

~ Charles Dickens ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2014.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

TÊTE-À-TÊTES

 

“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

 

~ French Proverb ~

 

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

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

UNSOILED AND UNSINNED

 

“What though the rose have prickles, yet ’tis pluck’d.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

LES SECRETS LES MOINS AVOUÉS DE LA CHAIR

 

“Je suis un mensonge qui dit toujours la vérité.”

“I am a lie that always tells the truth.”

 

~ Jean Cocteau ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an umbilicus taken in Spring 2001.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

SLUGS

 

“All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love.

We’re like slugs.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

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

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

HAPPY

 

“What a wonderful life I’ve had!

   I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”

 

~ Colette ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in April 2017.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

THE STORY OF OUR LIVES

 

“You see things and you say, Why?

But I dream things and I say, Why not?”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

Digital art image created in December 2016.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

THE PERFECT CRIME

 

“The heart was made to be broken.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris in May 2016.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

DEATH IS FOREVER

 

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

 

~ Hector Berlioz ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Cimetière de Montparnasse in Paris in September 2017.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

THE WAITING GAME

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

ONCE BROKEN

 

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

 

~ Madame de Stael ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

ILLUSION

 

“…and romeo was left crooning to an empty balcony…”

 

~ nightpoet ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of a statue of Julia (Juliet) taken in Munich, Germany in June 2014.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

CINDERELLA

 

“The only sound that’s left after the ambulances go

is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.”

 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

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

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

OUR POISON SWEET

 

“…drink my lovely, drink it down…”

 

~nightpoet ~

 

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

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

BLOSSOM

 

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

REDOLENCE

 

“Ah, but I was so much older then,

I’m younger than that now…”

 

~ Bob Dylan ~

 

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

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

SUMMER IT WAS

 

“Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly,

like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil.”

 

~ Roman Payne ~

 

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

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

SOFT LIES

 

“It is hot, the light is strong and I have an extraordinary sense of clarity,

although quite what is clear I cannot express.”

 

~ Lyudmila Ulitskaya ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created in May 2012 from a painting by G. Barth.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---