Posts Tagged With: Moon

two candles burning

Posted on 01/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Notre Dame in Paris in July 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Candles, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Graves, Life, Losers, Moon, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Prayers, Saints, Sinners, Stars, Thoughts, Winners | 2 Comments

terpsichore

Posted on 29/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

~ Corinna ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Crete in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dance, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eyes, Goat-Footed, Kisses, Life, Long, Moon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sappho, Sleep, Star, Terpsichore, Water | 1 Comment

moon over me

Posted on 21/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“There are nights when the wolves are silent

and only the moon howls.”

~ George Carlin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beds, Betrays, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Emptiness, Face, Fat, Friend, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Mistakes, Moon, Night, Nothing, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Punctual, Room, Shadows, Sheets, Sincerity, Streets, Time, True, Window | 1 Comment

midnightmare

Posted on 16/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –

but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Digital Imagery, Games, Horror, Lines, Moon, Mouth, Names, Night, Nightmare, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rise, Skies, Times, Zero Hour | 1 Comment

one evening’s moon

Posted on 28/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

~ Robert Frost ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2003.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Disc, Evening, Life, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precision, Scaffolding, Silently, Sky, Slowly, Softly, Song, Stars, Surprise | 1 Comment

blabberwockey

Posted on 17/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

~ Lewis Carroll ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020 of a chondrite meteorite that was found in Morocco in 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: : Buddha, Cappuccino, Cats, Concentric Circles, Creativity, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eternal, Exquisite, Eyes, Farting, Fish, Galaxies, Imagination, Infinity, Jade, Kings, Light, Meteorites, Moon, Night, Obscurity, Obsolescence, Orbits, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Posteriors, Salacious, Spangles, Stars, Tail, Time | 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

PHASES AND SHADOWS

Posted on 31/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

~ John Greaves ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Revoir, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fate, Friends, Horizon, Life, Light, Memories, Moon, Night, Nowhere, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Phases, Photography, Poetry, Street, Truth | 1 Comment

THE DECEMBER DREAM

Posted on 22/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from a photo taken in October 2017, provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises. Used with permission.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Boat, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dolphins, Dream, Emotions, Fantasy, Hair, Heart, Legends, Life, Lips, Love, Memories, Moon, Mystery, Night, Ocean, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Shoreline, Time, Wind | 1 Comment

LUNACY

Posted on 23/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

~ Adelaide Crapsey ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cadence, Counterpoint, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dissonance, Emotions, Howl, Leash, Life, Love, Lunacy, Memories, Moon, Music, Notes, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polyphony, Pother, Shadows, Songs, Wilderness | 1 Comment

MOONCHILD

Posted on 20/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

~ A.J. Lawless ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Coyotes, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fingers, Imagination, Interstellar, Life, Light Years, Moon, Moonchild, Moonlight, Music, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Secrets, Smile, Soliloquy, Sonatas, Stars, Time, Trouble, Wolves | 1 Comment

YAWNS BACK AT ME IN YELLOW

Posted on 04/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”

~ Bob Dylan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bawl, Bellow, Bleat, Digital Imagery, Dream, Drink, Drown, Gutters, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Perspiration, Photography, Poetry, Precipitation, Rain, Roof, Salamander, Scream, Slime, Sweat, Water, Yellow | 1 Comment

THE MOON STARES DOWN

Posted on 19/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Before the winter fire,

I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

~ Sandy Denny ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Fingers, Goddess, Life, Moon, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sleep, Time, Tomorrow, Window | 1 Comment

RIEN

Posted on 03/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“No one here gets out alive.”

~ Jim Morrison ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Instant, Learn, Life, Memories, Moon, Nothing, Paris, Past, Perception, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Rien, Spark, Stardust, Time | 1 Comment

HER BRIGHT EMBRACE

Posted on 22/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

~ Karl Marx ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on September 21, 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Change, Death, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Face, Life, Lines, Memories, Moon, Moonlight, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Strange, Twilight, Walls | 1 Comment

THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T

Posted on 20/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

~ Hesiod ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Candle, Cold, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Dreary, Gray, Heart, Home, Hook, Hope, Moon, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Summer, Tendril, Winter | 1 Comment

NO REGRETS

Posted on 29/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Babies, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Moon, Old Men, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Regrets, Sun, Today, Tomorrow, Truth, Yesterday | 1 Comment

STARDUST

Posted on 25/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

~ Laini Taylor ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from the photos of two small surface fragments from Mars (left fragment) and the Moon (right fragment), thrown into space by the impact of meteors, taken in October 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beginning, Digital Imagery, End, Hope, Mars, Moon, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stardust, Stars, Understanding | 1 Comment

MOON SHINES DOWN

Posted on 16/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Pain is universal, even the stars weep…”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Haikus, Misery, Moon, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Share, Shines | 1 Comment

PATIENTLY WAITING

Posted on 20/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Patience is a virtue…and a curse…”

~ nightpoet ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken with a 110 format Pentax SLR camera in Bristol, England in July 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bristol, Dancing, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Gallows, Lungs, Mattress, Milk Maid, Moon, Muffins, Pantry, Peaches, Perspective, Photography, Pie, Poetry, Rails, Sails, Sandwich, Sea, Sheets, Tongue | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Moon

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are nights when the wolves are silent

and only the moon howls.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –

but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

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:

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Before the winter fire,

I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“No one here gets out alive.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It will not always be summer: build barns.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Pain is universal, even the stars weep…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Patience is a virtue…and a curse…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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