Posts Tagged With: Memory

mouldy moon

Posted on 05/02/2023 by Nightpoet

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

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 mouldy moon 1

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

childhood’s end

Posted on 24/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

~ Ken Hill ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Breeze, Child, Childhood, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Fossils, Lava, Life, Magic, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sands, Sea, Songs, Steps, Stones, Stranger, Tide, Treasures | 1 Comment

afterthought

Posted on 21/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“For still I see that forethought spares

afterthought and after-sorrow.”

~ Amelia Barr ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterthought, Days, Digital Imagery, Hours, Measured, Memory, Moments, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slow Motion, Songs, Tears | 1 Comment

rainbow’s end

Posted on 14/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Coat, Colours, Digital Imagery, Existence, Fade, Memory, Moments, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbow, Sight, Sky, Streets | 1 Comment

aftertaste

Posted on 11/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives

a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

~ David Mitchell ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aftertaste, Beach, Blankets, Body, Corners, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hair, Hills, Life, Lips, Love, Masks, Memory, Museum, Paint, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sheets, Sleep, Spider Crab, Sun, Tide, Wrinkles, Youth | 1 Comment

the girl with a candle

Posted on 11/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Look at how a single candle can

both defy and define the darkness.”

~ Anne Frank ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Candle, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Flame, Girl, Heart, Life, Love, Memory, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows | 1 Comment

a time of dying

Posted on 10/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”

~ e.e. cummings

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Branches, Death, Digital Imagery, Dying, Hazel Nuts, Heart, Leaves, Life, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pyre, Seasons, Snow, Trees, Winter | 1 Comment

dark corners

Posted on 27/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept

the fantastic shadows into dusky corners,

where they lay shuddering.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

000 dark corners 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bottle, Chambers, Corners, Dark, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Digits, Dripping, Dry, Dungeons, Empty, Memory, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrance, Roses, Shadows, Throat | 1 Comment

long shadows

Posted on 05/08/2022 by Nightpoet

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”

~ Terry Pratchett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bottle, Chambers, Corners, Darkness, Days, Dead End, Death, Digital Imagery, Digits, Dry, Life, Love, Memories, Memory, Pain, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrance, Rose, Shadows, Throat, Time, Wine | 1 Comment

sing me a soft song of my childhood

Posted on 20/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

000 sing me a soft song of my childhood

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Childhood, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dungeon, Energy, Face, Freedom, Hands, Inspiration, Life, Love, Lullaby, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shroud, Silence, Solitude, Song, Spring, Summer, Veil, Withered, Wrinkled | 4 Comments

starsailor strange

Posted on 05/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.”

~ Guy de Maupassant ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breasts, Cranium, Cross, Cross Eyed, Deity, Devil, Digital Imagery, Erotica, Fingers, Landscape, Life, Memory, Nipples, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Sex, Sin, Skull, Strange, Witness | 1 Comment

the river flows

Posted on 14/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“Free fall flow, river flow, on and on it goes,

breathe under water till the end,

yes, the river knows…”

~ Robbie Krieger ~

000 the river flows

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Deep, Depths, Digital Imagery, Flow, Life, Memory, Nothingness, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, River, Sea, Shallow, Slow, Source, Swift | 1 Comment

the doubt remains

Posted on 02/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

~ Voltaire ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art called “Poussiere De Tess – Batiment” taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Certainty, Digital Imagery, Doubt, Dream, Future, Imagined, Lies, Memory, Muddle, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Real, Truth, Uncertainty | 1 Comment

remembrance

Posted on 10/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

~ Antonio Porchia ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Cabalistic, Cold, Consciousness, Dada, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dour, Fade, Flowers, Imagination, Life, Memory, Nightmares, Nihilism, Nothing, Pale, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrance, Wither | 1 Comment

dreams fading

Posted on 13/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who

can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees

the dawn before the rest of the world.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Butterflies, Candle, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Leaves, Memory, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleep, Wind, Wings | 1 Comment

au ralenti

Posted on 06/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Poetry is prose in slow motion.”

~ Nicholson Baker ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by noonie taken in the Rue de l’Arbalète in Paris in August 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Days, Digital Imagery, Dreamlike, Flux, Memory, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sequences, Slow Motion, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

immortality

Posted on 01/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“A book is the only immortality.”

~ Rufus Choate ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Black Magic, Books, Darkness, Death, Elixirs, Future, Heart, History, Immortality, Incantations, Life, Literature, Love, Memory, Minds, Pages, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potions, Spells, Time, Treasure, Wisdom | 1 Comment

FOSSILIZED INSTANCES

Posted on 25/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Though we are made of memories,

we live only in the here and now.”

~ Sue Halpern ~

000 fossilized instances

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Eye, Flame, Incomprehension, Instances, Life, Memory, Moths, Past, Perspective, Petrified, Photography, Poetry, Present, Real, Spiral | 1 Comment

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

NO ONE LISTENING

Posted on 06/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Curtain, Digital Imagery, Gray, Listening, Memory, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purple, River, Song, Stillness, Sun, Trees | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Memory

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For still I see that forethought spares

afterthought and after-sorrow.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how

rainbows are made and why they go away.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A sprinkle of last-minute despair gives

a soul an agreeably earthy aftertaste.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Look at how a single candle can

both defy and define the darkness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept

the fantastic shadows into dusky corners,

where they lay shuddering.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Abstinence is the worst form of perversion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Free fall flow, river flow, on and on it goes,

breathe under water till the end,

yes, the river knows…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who

can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees

the dawn before the rest of the world.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Poetry is prose in slow motion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A book is the only immortality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Though we are made of memories,

we live only in the here and now.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“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:

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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