waiting for the end

 

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

 

~ Maurice Chevalier ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.

---

© 2023 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

face in the wall

 

“The countenance is the portrait of the soul,

and the eyes mark its intentions.”

 

~ Cicero ~

 

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

---

© 2023 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

tick tock

 

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

 

~ Hector Berlioz ~

 

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

---

© 2023 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

pièce de résistance

 

“Existence is a series of footnotes to a

     vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

where the time goes

 

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

 

~ Henry Austin Dobson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2022.

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

all our being ends

 

“At the moment when we end, all our being ends with us.”

 

~ Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau ~

 

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

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

my turn to be forgotten

 

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

 

~ Joni Mitchell ~

 

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

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

the ghosts of my life

 

“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

 

~ Lauren Oliver ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a Polaroid negative taken sometime around 1970.

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

cracks and crevices

 

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

 

~ Thomas Nagel ~

 

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

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

fantômes

 

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

 

~ John Malkovich ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

a drowning man

 

“The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.”

 

~ Franz Kafka ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2022.

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

exit strategy

 

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

a personal observation

 

“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

 

~ Khalil Gibran ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

ces vieilles mains

 

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

 

~ William S. Burroughs ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

lullaby for losers

 

“Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.”

 

~ Anonymous ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in October 2018.

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

cobweb strange

 

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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

---

© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

the event horizon

 

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

 

~ Charles Bukowski ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

---

© 2022 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

film noir

 

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

 

~ Raymond Chandler ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2022.

---

© 2022 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

the stolen years

 

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

 

~ Christopher Paolini ~

 

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

---

© 2022 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

this too shall pass

 

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2014.

---

© 2022 nightpoet all rights reserved

---