“He was inside the nightmare.”
~ Patrick Ness ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2022.
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Posts Tagged With: Nightmare
coda
Categories: Poetry, Photography
Tags: Poetry, Photography, Perspective, Digital Imagery, Light, Nightmare, Note, Coda, Maelstrom
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a colour of dust
“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,
sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”
~ Omar Khayyam ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.
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jungle
“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”
~ Peter De Vries ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Dangerous, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Dust, Jungle, Life, Machete, Nightmare, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promises, River, Swamp
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peace
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Avarice, Awareness, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fanatics, Future, Greed, History, Life, Love, Mercy, Nightmare, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Self-Aggrandizement, Selfishness, War, Wealth, Weapons
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hung on rusty hinges
“Everything hinges on how you look at things.”
~ Henry Miller
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.
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slabber
“It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive;
the filth you cannot see.”
~ Jocelyn Murray ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adolescence, Digital Imagery, Gristle, Hair, Hallucinogenic, Heavens, Hologram, Humanity, Ignorance, Innocence, Intestinal, Maggots, Masses, Moon, Nightmare, Onanistic, Oozing, Orgy, Perspective, Phlegm, Photography, Pilgrims, Poetry, Progeny, Promises, Prostituted, Shrines, Slabber, Snakes, Squirm, Veil
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child
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”
~ Margaret Mead ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris in November 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Catastrophe, Children, Creative Expression, Digital Imagery, Environment, Freedom Of Speech, Future, Hate, Innocence, Intolerance, Legacy, Nightmare, No Future, Oligarchic, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plutocratic, Poetry, Racism, Servitude, Theocratic, Trust, Violence, Wonder
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all this paradise
“Think of what a paradise this world would be
if men were kind and wise.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Compassion, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Ears, Emotions, Empathy, Eyes, Generosity, Heart, Kindness, Life, Love, Nightmare, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Trees, Understanding, Warmth
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now
“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees
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bête noire
“For now they kill me with a living death.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Age, Bane, Black Beast, Comfort, Death, Digital Imagery, Habit, Life, Nightmare, Obtusity, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Routine, Slaughter, Torment, Torpidity
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the long nightmare
“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”
~ Francisco de Goya ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Digital Imagery, Dream, Life, Nightmare, Nights, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Sleepless, Storm
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coda
“He was inside the nightmare.”
~ Patrick Ness ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Coda, Digital Imagery, Light, Maelstrom, Nightmare, Note, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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film noir
“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”
~ Raymond Chandler ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Claws, Cobblestones, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, Film Noir, Leaves, Life, Light, Madness, Midnight, Nightmare, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reaper, Shadow, Windows
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midnightmare
“They’ve promised that dreams can come true –
but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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l’extase de l’insomnie
“Sleeping is no mean art:
for its sake one must stay awake all day.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Ecstasy, Insomnia, Inspiration, Night, Nightmare, Photography, Poetry, Psychosomatic, Sleep, Somnambulism
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a colour of dust
“Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!”
~ Omar Khayyam ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.
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PEACE
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Avarice, Awareness, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fanatics, Future, Greed, History, Life, Love, Mercy, Nightmare, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Self-Aggrandizement, Selfishness, War, Wealth, Weapons
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TÊTE-À-TÊTES
“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”
“Autumn is the hush before winter.”
~ French Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Dream, Earthquakes, Fires, Leaves, Life, Loneliness, Love, Memories, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Seasons, Slaughter, Storms, Tête-À-Têtes, Tombs, Wind
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THE SUMMER THAT WASN’T
“It will not always be summer: build barns.”
~ Hesiod ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.
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HAPPY
“What a wonderful life I’ve had!
I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
~ Colette ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in April 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Dream, Figment, Happiness, Imagination, Life, Love, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
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