Posts Tagged With: Money

can’t see the forest for the irony

Posted on 09/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

~ E. A. Bucchianeri

000 can't see the forest for the irony 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Air, Annihilation, Carbon Dioxide, Consequences, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Forest, Green, Irony, Life, Money, Oxygen, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Profit, Progress, Rich, Trees, Wood | 1 Comment

might have made a difference

Posted on 15/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water | 1 Comment

HAMSTER WHEEL

Posted on 24/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

~ Bob Dylan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Kai taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Circles, Compassion, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Gears, Hamster Wheel, Human, Life, Money, Morality, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Profit, Prosperity, Rat Race, Street Art, The Running Man, Time, Wheels | 1 Comment

ONLY LOSERS

Posted on 27/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“And in today already walks tomorrow.”

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Childhood, Children, Corpses, Death, Environment, Extinction, Karma, Life, Losers, Money, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politicians, Pollution, Profit, Revenge, Street Art | 1 Comment

THE SUMMER OF DISCONTENT

Posted on 22/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out

than it would have been if it had never shone.”

~ John Steinbeck ~

000 the summer of discontent

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cadaver, Dancing, Digital Imagery, Discontent, Discrimination, Further, Ken Kesey, Life, Manna, Merry Pranksters, Money, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puppet, Soul, Stages, Summer, Tenure, Twilight, Wheels | 1 Comment

BEG FOR LIFE

Posted on 28/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take,

but it is finer to take than to beg.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Affection, Begging, Breath, Digital Imagery, Food, Life, Love, Money, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sit, Wait | 1 Comment

THEM THAT’S GOT SHALL HAVE

Posted on 29/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“Behind every great fortune is a crime.”

~ Honore de Balzac ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aristocracy, Beggar's Bowl, Blade, Bovine Bitch, Dandy, Death, Digital Imagery, Finery, Grim Reaper, Guillotine, History, Inequality, Laugh, Life, Money, Noses, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pittance, Poetry, Pseudo-Pomp, Riches, Severed Head, Smile, Sneer | 1 Comment

CAN’T SEE THE FOREST FOR THE IRONY

Posted on 13/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

~ E. A. Bucchianeri ~

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

NO GOD

Posted on 22/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anarchy, Ashes, Autumn, Avenues, Barbarism, Breath, Burned, Cadavers, Capitalism, Cathedral, Choke, Civilization, Contorted, Culture, Darkness, Death, Decency, Digital Imagery, Eat, Enlightenment, Food, Fools, God, Heart, Humanity, Ignorance, Leaves, Life, Money, No Future, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rags, Religion, Rich, Rubble, Shadows, Streets, Twisted, Virus | 1 Comment

A PILLAR OF SOCIETY

Posted on 23/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“And so the wolf lay with the lamb.”

~ Nenia Campbell ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brains, Bullet, Cadaver, Captain, Communication, Darkness, Death, Denial, Digital Imagery, Erotica, Exploitation, Eyes, Forbidden Fruit, Industry, Judge, Jury, Life, Love, Lust, Media, Mogul, Money, Nubile, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Police, Predator, Respect, Sex, Shadows, Society, Taste, Young | 1 Comment

HAMSTER WHEEL

Posted on 07/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

~ Bob Dylan ~

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

THE ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

Posted on 28/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

~ L. Frank Baum ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Allegory, Bondage, Cave, Darkness, Deception, Delusion, Digital Imagery, History, Ignorance, Illusions, Life, Light, Money, Photography, Plato, Poetry, Power, Prisoners, Puppet Masters, Shadows, Thievery, Truth | 2 Comments

NE PAS AVALER

Posted on 25/08/2018 by Nightpoet

“Peace cannot be kept by force;

it can only be achieved by understanding.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Drink, Fata Morgana, Fear, Hatred, Heart, Illusion, Intolerance, Life, Love, Money, Paris, Peace, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Politicians, Profit, Prosperity, Street Art, Truth, War | 1 Comment

BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY

Posted on 23/08/2018 by Nightpoet

“Humankind seems to have

an enormous capacity for savagery,

for brutality, for lack of empathy,

for lack of compassion.”

~ Annie Lennox ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chaos, Compassion, Corruption, Decency, Digital Imagery, Empathy, Greed, Heart, History, Honesty, Integrity, Life, Love, Money, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Selfishness, Understanding | 1 Comment

PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – FOUR

Posted on 08/05/2018 by Nightpoet

“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”

~ Napoleon Bonaparte ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Les Deux Magots in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Billionaires, Capitalistic Corporatism, Despots, Dictators, Digital Imagery, Fascism, France, History, Influence, Les Deux Magots, Memories, Money, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Power, The Poor, The Working Classes, Victory Day | 1 Comment

MIGHT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE

Posted on 06/11/2016 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut,

the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted;

when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

1972

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Environment, Fish, Forest, Humanity, La Gomera, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Trees, Water | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Money

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

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“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

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Like this:

“And in today already walks tomorrow.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out

than it would have been if it had never shone.”

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Like this:

“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take,

but it is finer to take than to beg.”

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Like this:

“Behind every great fortune is a crime.”

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Like this:

“It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

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Like this:

“And so the wolf lay with the lamb.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Peace cannot be kept by force;

it can only be achieved by understanding.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Humankind seems to have

an enormous capacity for savagery,

for brutality, for lack of empathy,

for lack of compassion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When the last tree is cut,

the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted;

when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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