Posts Tagged With: Memories

TICK TOCK

Posted on 30/03/2021 by Nightpoet

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

~ Hector Berlioz

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clocks, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Salvador Dali, Tick Tock, Visions | 1 Comment

NO QUARTER

Posted on 12/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Desert, Desolation, Digital Imagery, Life, Matchsticks, Memories, No Quarter, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Sands, Skeletons, Wastes, Water | 1 Comment

WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

Posted on 31/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are always remaking history.

Our memory is always

an interpretive reconstruction of the past,

so is perspective.”

~ Umberto Eco ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Events, Eyes, Fiction, Imagination, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street, Writers, Year | 1 Comment

THIS EXCREMENT UNCTION

Posted on 30/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bones, Darkness, Demons, Devil, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Empty, Excrement, Exhaustion, Exorcism, Forbidden, Heart, Hopes, Horizon, Lolita, Long, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sense, Short, Soul, Struggle, Unction | 1 Comment

IN ALL THE SILENCE THAT IS SLEEP

Posted on 06/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Silence is the speech of love.”

~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dancing, Death, Deepness, Digital Imagery, Disks, Dream, Faces, Fluctuation, Insanity, Memories, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Places, Poetry, Real, Shadows, Silence, Sleep, Terpsichore | 1 Comment

THIS YEAR OF PLAGUE

Posted on 15/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague.

Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 2 Comments

MY TURN TO BE FORGOTTEN

Posted on 07/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

~ Joni Mitchell ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Book, Colour, Covers, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Fading, Father, Forgotten, Memories, Mother, Oblivion, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Questions, Spines, Sunlight, Thoughts, Time | 1 Comment

GOLDEN FLEECE

Posted on 01/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

~ Anne Sexton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Blood, Creature, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Golden Fleece, Hours, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, No Quarter, Paralyzed, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, Rain, Search, Shadows, Streets, Vomit | 1 Comment

ALWAYS BAREFOOT IN THE BRAMBLES

Posted on 29/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.

And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

~ Philippe Forest ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adjectives, Adverbs, Automatic, Barefoot, Beauty, Brambles, Cheshire Cat, Conjunctions, Creativity, Curves, Digital Imagery, Dreamtime, Emotions, Energy, Erratic, Fences, Heart, Imagination, Life, Love, Memories, Mouth, Neuron, Nouns, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prepositions, Pulses, Signals, Static, Taste, Thorns, Time, Verbs, Wine, Words | 1 Comment

THE DANCES I NEVER DANCED

Posted on 27/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

~ James Richardson ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Burns, Chances, Clouds, Dances, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Future, Game, Helpless, Hope, Horizon, Life, Love, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puppet, Street Art, Strings, Time, Winds, Wings | 1 Comment

IN SEPARATE ROOMS FOR YEARS

Posted on 26/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

~ Michel de Montaigne ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bleeding, Depths, Digital Imagery, Dinner, Drowned, Emotions, Heart, Letters, Life, Love, Memories, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rooms, Sound, Stage, Street Art, Tears, Tragedy, Winner, Years | 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

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Posted on 14/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“A closed mouth catches no flies.”

~ Miguel De Cervantes ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balled, Blossoms, Breasts, Brushed, Coins, Digital Imagery, Doors, Dreamer, Emotions, Eyes, Felt, Floor, Life, Loins, Love, Memories, Nipples, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Shivers, Sighs, Sin, Siren, Song, Spring, Teats, Thighs, Wall | 1 Comment

AFTERLIFE

Posted on 12/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.

But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.

We are programmed to betray.”

~ Michael Ignatieff ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an archaeological find material storage depot taken in the early 1990’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Archaeology, Bones, Cartons, Catalogued, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eternity, Graves, Heaven, Hell, History, Illustrated, Life, Measured, Memories, Numbered, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resurrection, Reward, Shelves, Skeletons, Storeroom, Studied, Time | 3 Comments

STRANGE HOW WE MET

Posted on 28/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

~ Anthony Burgess ~

Digitally enhanced image created in August 2020 from two scans of a signed Penguin edition of A Clockwork Orange. From the author’s personal collection.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: A Clockwork Orange, Blunders, Digital Imagery, Dream, Future, Knitting, Lines, Love, Memories, Miles, Past, Perspective, Poetry, Present, Roads, Rose, Song, Thorn, Time, Tongue, Untie, Westover, Wonders, Words, Wrote, Yarn, Young | 1 Comment

A LOOSE DISGUISE

Posted on 21/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

~ Cesare Pavese ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Back Bay, Virginia in June 1977.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bones, Digital Imagery, Disguise, Forever, Heartbeat, Life, Lost, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pulse, Skeleton, Skin, Time, Veil | 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

LIVING WITH THE RISKS

Posted on 03/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Everything is dangerous.

If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breasts, Bristle, Contagious, Contenders, Crown, Curtain, Delicate, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Feelings, Feet, Fingers, Fists, Heart, Life, Love, Memories, Outrageous, Pages, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pretenders, Risks, Salt, Sex, Sing, Slept, Splinters, Stage, Thistle, Threats, Throat, Throne, Ticket, Tongue, Whistle | 1 Comment

TOO FAR

Posted on 30/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

~ Dylan Thomas ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Back, Bridges, Burning, Digital Imagery, Far, Future, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Traveler, Turn | 2 Comments

ELECTRICITY

Posted on 29/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Aldo Vitalen taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alluring, Beauty, Breadth, Breath, Compositions, Digital Imagery, Elaborate, Electricity, Emotions, Experiences, Faces, Felicity, Grace, Historical, Length, Life, Lines, Long-Winded, Love, Lyrical, Meaning, Memories, Music, Night, Oral, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Positions, Renditions, Rhymes, Sensuous, Song, Sprinkles, Traces, Traditions, Wisdom, Wit, Words, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Memories

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are always remaking history.

Our memory is always

an interpretive reconstruction of the past,

so is perspective.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Silence is the speech of love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.

And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Ah, but I was so much younger then…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A closed mouth catches no flies.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.

But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.

We are programmed to betray.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Everything is dangerous.

If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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