Posts Tagged With: Mystery

death and cobwebs

Posted on 25/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

~ Rajneesh ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time | 1 Comment

shiny black adjectives

Posted on 17/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adjectives, Alley, Asphalt, Cobbles, Confidence, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emptiness, Movement, Mystery, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Shadows, Sihlouettes, Street, Symphony, Syntax, Verbs | 1 Comment

nothing

Posted on 07/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode

in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Alive, Arias, Birth, Curtain Call, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Life, Mystery, Nothingness, Performance, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stage, Void | 1 Comment

a purpose

Posted on 04/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand

as in what direction we are moving.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in September 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bottle, Brothel, Digital Imagery, History, Language, Mimicry, Mystery, Paupers, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purpose, Ship, Street Art, Waddle | 1 Comment

the deception

Posted on 03/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“So much of life, it seems to me,

is determined by pure randomness.”

~ Sidney Poitier ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Colours, Deception, Digital Imagery, Flower, Form, Galaxy, Mystery, Painter, Paradox, Perspective, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Purpose, Random Chance, Space, Universe | 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

CAMOUFLAGED

Posted on 21/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Autumn, Boulevards, Camouflage, Chill, Dampen, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dungeon, Fog, Future, Labyrinths, Landscape, Leaves, Life, Memories, Mystery, Old, Old Age, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rues, Shadows | 1 Comment

SING

Posted on 14/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,

it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

~ Janis Joplin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2014. Courtesy of DePiero and Associates.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Ears, Emotion, Feeling, Heart, Humanity, Language, Love, Magic, Melody, Mouth, Music, Mystery, Notes, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Senses, Singing, Song, Sound, Spirit | 1 Comment

THE MOVEMENT OF AIR

Posted on 06/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“A painter paints pictures on canvas.

But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

~ Leopold Stokowski ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Breath, Emotions, Images, Instrument, Life, Lungs, Magic, Music, Mystery, Notes, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reed, Silence, Sound, Valves | 1 Comment

STRATEGY

Posted on 11/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the interior of the West Kennet Long Barrow taken in England in July 1983.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Barrows, Blackness, Darkness, Deviance, Digital Imagery, Distance, Drank, Dribbles, Drippings, Drumbeats, Fuse, Mystery, Numbers, Passages, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Safety, Slavery, Slippers, Strategy, Swindles, Thimbles, Thread | 1 Comment

SHINY BLACK ADJECTIVES

Posted on 01/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~

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

MY BLANK PAGES

Posted on 31/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“The blank page gives us the right to dream.”

~ Gaston Bachelard ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Berlin, Blank Page, Breathe, Burn, Choke, Death, Debate, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Empty, Fate, Hate, Helsinki, Imagination, Jab, Joke, Life, Love, Mystery, Oblivion, Overflow, Pages, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pulitzer, Sea, Smoke, Space, Story, Web, White, Words, World | 1 Comment

ONE NIGHTMORE

Posted on 07/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“If songs were lines in a conversation,

the situation would be fine…”

~ Nick Drake ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barren, Bedlands, Blend, Bowl, Corners, Counterpoint, Delirium, Digital Imagery, Dimensions, Divisions, Dream, Electricity, Essence, Groggy, Harmony, Life, Love, Magic, Memories, Music, Mystery, Night, Past, Perform, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polyphony, Scenario, Sensual, Shapes, Sing, Sizes, Sleep, Symphonic, Troubadours, Unborn, Unshaven, Unshorn, Visions | 1 Comment

CAMOUFLAGED

Posted on 12/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

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

NEXUS

Posted on 01/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

~ Khalil Gibran ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Body Language, Bond, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Encounters, Energy, Eyes, Face, Feelings, Joy, Life, Light, Love, Mind, Mystery, Nexus, Observation, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rendezvous, Strangers, Understanding, Warmth, Words | 1 Comment

RENDEZVOUS

Posted on 08/08/2019 by Nightpoet

“I have a rendezvous with life.”

~ Countee Cullen ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the clock in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clocks, Digital Imagery, Life, Moment, Mystery, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Posterity, Purpose, Rendezvous, Sacre Coeur, Secret, Shutter, Time | 1 Comment

DEATH AND COBWEBS

Posted on 10/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

~ Rajneesh ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

ALWAYS THERE

Posted on 28/06/2019 by Nightpoet

“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind

to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

~ Voltaire ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Breasts, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Enigmatic, Erotica, Face, Fathomless, Figure, Fire, Heart, Incendiary, Life, Lithe, Love, Mystery, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Red, Sex, Valley, Vermillion, Virgin, Voluptuousness | 1 Comment

THE WINDOW

Posted on 01/06/2019 by Nightpoet

“Dying is an art, like everything else.”

~ Sylvia Plath ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Burning, Darkness, Death, Flame, Flowers, Glass, Life, Memories, Mystery, Paris, Poetry, Shadows, Window | 1 Comment

RUE DE JACOB REFLECTIONS

Posted on 21/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to be,

the last of life,

for which the first was made.”

~ Robert Browning ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Colette, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Experience, Heart, Knowledge, Life, Love, Mystery, Natalie Clifford Barney, Nymphs, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Temple, Time, Window | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Mystery

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode

in the blissful repose of nothingness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand

as in what direction we are moving.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So much of life, it seems to me,

is determined by pure randomness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Singing, it’s like it’s like loving somebody,

it’s a supreme emotional and physical experience.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A painter paints pictures on canvas.

But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The blank page gives us the right to dream.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If songs were lines in a conversation,

the situation would be fine…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have a rendezvous with life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is one of the superstitions of the human mind

to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dying is an art, like everything else.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to be,

the last of life,

for which the first was made.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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