Posts Tagged With: Oblivion

réminiscences

Posted on 03/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

000 réminiscences 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Existence, Feelings, Forgetfulness, Images, Impressions, Labyrinth, Lepidopterist, Mazes, Meaninglessness, Memories, Mind, Moments, Mosaic, Moths, Net, Oblivion, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Thoughts, Wings | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 10/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

waiting for the end

Posted on 21/01/2023 by Nightpoet

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

~ Maurice Chevalier ~

000 waiting for the end

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Companions, Death, Digital Imagery, End, Friends, Future, Goodbyes, Icons, Idols, Life, Obliquity, Oblivion, Obscurity, Opaque, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shroud, Soliloquy, Vigil, Waiting | 1 Comment

face in the wall

Posted on 20/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“The countenance is the portrait of the soul,

and the eyes mark its intentions.”

~ Cicero ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blind, Centuries, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Haze, Oblivion, Obsidian, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sandstone, Time, Wall | 1 Comment

tick tock

Posted on 02/01/2023 by Nightpoet

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

~ Hector Berlioz ~

000 tick tock 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clocks, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Salvador Dali, Tick Tock, Visions | 1 Comment

pièce de résistance

Posted on 20/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“Existence is a series of footnotes to a

vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

000 pièce de résistance 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Dark, Day, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Gray, Head, Morning, Night, Nonexistence, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Pièce De Résistance, Pillow, Poetry | 1 Comment

where the time goes

Posted on 24/11/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ Henry Austin Dobson ~

000 where the time goes

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clay, Cosmos, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Experiences, Life, Maw, Memories, Mold, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Steps, Time, Winds | 1 Comment

all our being ends

Posted on 30/09/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Blindness, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Heart, Infinity, Life, Nothing, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | 1 Comment

my turn to be forgotten

Posted on 24/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Don’t it always seem to go

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

~ Joni Mitchell ~

000 my turn to be forgotten 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Book, Colour, Covers, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Fading, Father, Forgotten, Memories, Mother, Oblivion, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Questions, Spines, Sunlight, Thoughts, Time | 1 Comment

the ghosts of my life

Posted on 04/08/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ Lauren Oliver ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Edge, Faces, Faux Pas, Ghosts, Haunt, Horizon, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Past, Patience, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stone, Time | 1 Comment

cracks and crevices

Posted on 22/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

~ Thomas Nagel ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: After, Awareness, Before, Bloom, Cracks, Crevices, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Moments, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sentience | 1 Comment

fantômes

Posted on 24/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

~ John Malkovich ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cheeks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Eyes, Faces, Friends, Future, Ghosts, Hissing, Letters, Life, Memories, Mirror, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rots, Shadows, Shredder, Skin, Texts, Time, Whispering | 2 Comments

a drowning man

Posted on 03/06/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ Franz Kafka ~

000 a drowning man

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Drowning, Life, Light, Man, Moonless, Mountain, Nights, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Promised Land, Shadows, Shore, Slow Motion, Starless, Valley, Waters | 1 Comment

exit strategy

Posted on 23/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 exit strategy

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Exit Strategy, Fools, Handbasket, Hell, Life, Maniacs, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychopaths, Truth | 1 Comment

a personal observation

Posted on 11/05/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ Khalil Gibran ~

000 a personal observation

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chord Changes, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eye, Feet, Fingers, Hermes, History, Laughter, Life, Love, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soundtrack, Tapestry, Tears, Time, Years | 1 Comment

ces vieilles mains

Posted on 08/05/2022 by Nightpoet

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

It was my other hand.”

~ William S. Burroughs ~

000 ces vieilles mains 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Goodbyes, Grasp, Hands, Jungles, Kindness, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Palms, Passion, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Promise, Scarred, Thorns, Time, Worn, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

lullaby for losers

Posted on 02/05/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ Anonymous ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canker, Death, Digital Imagery, Dustbin, Earth, Fools, Future, History, Life, Losers, Lullaby, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pig-Ignorant, Planet, Poetry, Species, Street Art, Value | 1 Comment

cobweb strange

Posted on 22/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“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 ~

000 cobweb strange 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bats, Beauty, Bleached, Bones, Chamber, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Energy, Grit, Heavens, Life, Memories, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Persona, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleep, Spirits, Time, Wind, Worms | 1 Comment

the event horizon

Posted on 04/04/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ Charles Bukowski ~

000 the event horizon 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Being, Breath, Canary Islands, Deleted, Digital Imagery, Event Horizon, Farewell, La Palma, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry, Portal | 1 Comment

film noir

Posted on 02/04/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ Raymond Chandler ~

000 film noir

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

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 | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Oblivion

“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”

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“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

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

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“The countenance is the portrait of the soul,

and the eyes mark its intentions.”

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Like this:

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

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Like this:

“Existence is a series of footnotes to a

vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

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Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

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Like this:

“Don’t it always seem to go

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

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Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

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Like this:

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

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Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

It was my other hand.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

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Like this:

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

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

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