Posts Tagged With: Mirror

SECOND CHANCE

Posted on 10/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“You know, I ain’t afraid of dyin’ but there’s one thing I can’t forget,

ain’t no one who’s gone over there, come back to talk to me about it yet…”

~ Memphis Slim ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 1990.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Consciousness, Death, Digital Imagery, Insight, Life, Luck, Mirror, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbows, Second Chance, Self-Analysis, Vision | 1 Comment

LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES

Posted on 11/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

~ Anonymous ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Appetite, Breath, Curtain, Death, Devices, Digital Imagery, Hunger, Knots, Life, Mid-life Crisis, Mirror, Nectar, Old Man, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Smile, Steam, Taste, Water | 1 Comment

THE FINAL ACT

Posted on 25/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

(epitaph)

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Act, Actors, Audience, Digital Imagery, Flowers, Freedom, Lines, Makeup, Mask, Mirror, Paradox, Perspective, Photography, Players, Poetry, Prison, Real, Scene, Script, Smiles, Stage, Unreal, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

BITS AND SNIPPETS

Posted on 19/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“A man’s interest in the world is only

an overflow from his interest in himself.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Palace of Knossos, Heraklion, Crete, in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bull, Crete, Dancer, Digital Imagery, Horns, Knossos, Leaper, Matador, Mirror, Nothing, Overflowing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

UN VIEIL HOMME

Posted on 07/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.”

~ Leon Trotsky ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bearded, Countenance, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Father, Future, Life, Memories, Mirror, Old Man, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Road, Silver Haired, Time, Visage, Weary, Weathered | 1 Comment

MEDUSA

Posted on 19/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”

~ Mason Cooley ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Hate, Head, Hiss, Lips, Medusa, Memories, Minacious, Mirror, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Satyr, Sensuality, Serpents, Sex, Shadows, Slobber, Smile, Snakes, Stone, Thigh, Vitriol | 1 Comment

KNOW MYSELF

Posted on 29/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Know thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world.

Over the portal of the new world, ‘Be thyself’ shall be written.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in May 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cell, Changes, Colour, Consciousness, Creature, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fossilization, Future, Hands, Imagination, Know, Life, Memories, Mirror, Old, Palette, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Self-Awareness, Spotted, Time, Wrinkled | 1 Comment

LOST IN THOUGHT

Posted on 11/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.”

~ Sanober Khan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture by Claude Morin, “L’equilibre” taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Naturel, Beauty, Blind, Breasts, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Eyes, Future, Heart, Imagination, Inner Spirit, Life, Love, Memories, Mirror, Paris, Passion, Past, Pauper, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Resignation, Self-Doubt, Sex, Sweat, Thighs, Thoughts, Tide, Time | 1 Comment

LIFE AS ART

Posted on 14/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Canvas, Clarity, Colours, Digital Imagery, Diversity, Emotions, Imagination, Landscapes, Life, Love, Mirror, Paintbrush, Painting, Palette, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Rainbow, Sentiment, Tenor, Understanding, Verisimilitude | 1 Comment

SHARDS OF LIGHT

Posted on 30/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“A million candles burning for the love that never came,

you want it darker, we kill the flame…”

~ Leonard Cohen ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apathy, Books, Candles, Creativity, Darkness, Desolation, Enlightenment, Harbinger, Human, Ignorance, Imagination, Ink, Life, Lifeblood, Light, Lines, Love, Luminosity, Memories, Mirror, Night, Parchment, Paris, Passion, Past, Patience, Photography, Poetry, Read, Reality, Seeds, Shards, Street Art, Time, Wilderness | 1 Comment

FANTÔMES

Posted on 10/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

~ John Malkovich ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cheeks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Eyes, Faces, Friends, Future, Ghosts, Hissing, Letters, Life, Memories, Mirror, Oblivion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Rots, Shadows, Shredder, Skin, Texts, Time, Whispering | 3 Comments

SILKEN

Posted on 10/08/2019 by Nightpoet

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet

and the winds long to play with your hair.”

~ Khalil Gibran ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Eugène Carrière’s painting Femme Se Coiffant (1894) in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beauty, Breasts, Brush, Colours, Comb, Curves, Devotion, Digital Imagery, Hair, Life, Mirror, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Purification, Ribbon, Ritual, Shadows, Silken, Venus | 1 Comment

SANDS OF TIME

Posted on 14/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cobwebbed, Corroded, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Grief, Hour Glass, Life, Memories, Mirror, Pain, Paris, Past, Path, Photography, Poetry, Sands, Shadows, Song, Time | 1 Comment

PILGRIM

Posted on 25/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“All of us are pilgrims on this earth.

I have even heard it said that the earth itself

is a pilgrim in the heavens.”

~ Maxim Gorky ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Candles, Dancing, Feet, Harm, Heart, Incense, Life, Love, Mirror, Paris, Photography, Pilgrim, Poetry, Sandals, Shoes, Socks, Time | 1 Comment

PAGE THREE

Posted on 31/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

~ James Thurber ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Book, Cheese, Cloak, Crotch, Digital Imagery, Egg, Eyes, Fantasies, Fingers, Invisibility, Invisible Ink, Life, Memories, Mind, Mineral, Mirror, Neck, Page, Petticoat, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Silence, Sky, Smoke, Soundtrack, Time, Turntable, Waves | 1 Comment

ECCE

Posted on 27/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“I am invisible, understand,

simply because people refuse to see me.”

~ Ralph Ellison ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Dreams, Ecce, Invisible, Life, Mirror, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sheets, Silence, Stars | 1 Comment

THE FACE OF DEATH

Posted on 26/02/2019 by Nightpoet

“Why should I fear death?

If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not.

Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?”

~ Epicurus ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aloof, Children, Creativity, Darkness, Dazed, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Empty, Eyes, Face, Family, Friend, Goodness, Heart, Joy, Life, Love, Memories, Mirror, Music, Pale, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Singing, Spirit, Time, Tired, Weariness | 1 Comment

THREE DIMENSIONS

Posted on 07/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet.”

~ Michael LeBoeuf ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Canad’or taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Bicycle, Blue, Digital Imagery, Dimensions, Doors, Feet, Frame, Mirror, Paint, Paris, Pedestrians, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Shoes, Street Art, Walls, Windows | 1 Comment

AUTUMNAL

Posted on 14/10/2018 by Nightpoet

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Ancient, Autumn, Autumnal, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Memories, Mirror, Old, Old Age, Past, Photography, Poetry, Rubicon, Seasons, Time, Truth, Weary, Wrinkled | 2 Comments

THERE COMES A TIME

Posted on 23/09/2018 by Nightpoet

“The future is uncertain and the end is always near.”

~ Jim Morrison ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blind, Death, Digital Imagery, Face, Faces, Life, Light, Memories, Mirror, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Stranger, Time | Leave a comment

Posts Tagged With: Mirror

“You know, I ain’t afraid of dyin’ but there’s one thing I can’t forget,

ain’t no one who’s gone over there, come back to talk to me about it yet…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A man’s interest in the world is only

an overflow from his interest in himself.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Know thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world.

Over the portal of the new world, ‘Be thyself’ shall be written.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Even in the loneliest moments I have been there for myself.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A million candles burning for the love that never came,

you want it darker, we kill the flame…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet

and the winds long to play with your hair.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All of us are pilgrims on this earth.

I have even heard it said that the earth itself

is a pilgrim in the heavens.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I am invisible, understand,

simply because people refuse to see me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Why should I fear death?

If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not.

Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The future is uncertain and the end is always near.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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