Posts Tagged With: Oblivion

THIS ONE SIDE OF SLUMBER

Posted on 31/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

~ Friedrich Schiller ~

Digitally enhanced image created in March 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Give, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, River, Secrets, Skin, Sleep, Slumber, Smile, Smoke, Thatch, Thunder | 1 Comment

TICK TOCK

Posted on 30/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“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.

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

THE STOLEN YEAR

Posted on 09/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Breath, Creativity, Death, Dreams, Emotions, Gasp, Hopes, Impossibility, Lives, Oblivion, Paupers, Perspective, Photography, Plans, Poetry, Projects, Pyre, Routine, Stolen, Time, Wind, Year | 1 Comment

PIÈCE DE RÉSISTANCE

Posted on 24/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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

THAT ONCE CAST HER SHADOW

Posted on 31/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

~ Jack Lemmon ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the excavation of a Roman cremation burial taken in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Body, Bones, Cinders, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreamtime, Embers, Journey, Oblivion, Offerings, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pyre, Shadow, Sleep, Underworld, Urn | 1 Comment

CRACKS AND CREVICES

Posted on 18/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

~ Thomas Nagel ~

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

MY TURN TO BE FORGOTTEN

Posted on 07/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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

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

THE GHOSTS OF MY LIFE

Posted on 18/07/2020 by Nightpoet

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

~ Lauren Oliver ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of an unknown photo format 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 | 3 Comments

LINES FOR A LOVER NOT NEXT TO ME

Posted on 05/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“Absence – that common cure of love.”

~ Lord Byron ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anguish, Beauty, Breasts, Breath, Centuries, Darkness, Dawn, Death, Desperation, Devour, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Exist, Eyes, Feeling, Heart, Imagination, Imprisoned, Life, Love, Memories, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Season, Sleepless, Stars, Time, Walls, Wish, Worlds | 1 Comment

POEM FROM THE BOTTOM OF A BLACK HOLE

Posted on 03/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“There are many black holes, and there are many universes.

Life is a never ending circle, and so too, is death.”

~ Anthony T. Hincks ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animosity, Black Holes, Bottom, Clarity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Escape, Existence, Fires, Future, Gravity, Imagination, Light, Light Years, Luminosity, Matter, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Particles, Past, Patterns, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Predictions, Pressure, Science, Sky, Soul, Stars, Sub-Atomic Energy, Thread, Time, Wisps, Words | 1 Comment

OBLIVION

Posted on 15/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

~ Thomas Nagel ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of just a few of the many boxes taken in May 2005.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boxes, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Documents, Emotions, Energy, Forgotten, Grandparents, Hope, Indulgence, Life, Memories, Moments. Taste, Objects, Oblivion, Pages, Parents, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Time, Twilight, Young | 1 Comment

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

Posted on 30/03/2020 by Nightpoet

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

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Future, Haphazardly, Hopes, Horror, Knowledge, Life, Morass, Oblivion, Pain, Pass, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Sleep, Solace, Time, Tumble, Vicious Circle, Void, Womb | 1 Comment

BLACK DEATH

Posted on 23/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“All has been looted, betrayed, sold;

black death’s wing flashed ahead.”

~ Anna Akhmatova ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black Death, Bodies, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Isolation, Life, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Protection, Shadows | 1 Comment

SEED

Posted on 17/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“Words are also seeds,

and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance,

they grow and bring forth after their kind.”

~ Charles Fillmore ~

Digitally enhanced image created in March 2020..

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Death Mask, Digital Imagery, Future, Life, Nothingness, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seed | 1 Comment

PAS D’AVENIR

Posted on 12/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work.

We cannot keep living on hope, though.”

~ Erik Pevernagie ~

Digitally enhanced image created in December 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cancer, Children, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Famine, Future, Generations, Horror, Humanity, Life, Nightmare, No Future, Obliteration, Oblivion, Pandora's Box, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rape, Regeneration, Ride, Shadows, Time, War | 1 Comment

FANTÔMES

Posted on 10/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

~ John Malkovich ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original 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, Photography, Poetry, Rots, Shadows, Shredder, Skin, Texts, Time, Whispering | 5 Comments

A WALK DOWN LONELY STREET

Posted on 22/08/2019 by Nightpoet

“Lonely men with lonely eyes are seeking her in vain.”

~ Oscar Hammerstein II ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Bitter, Blues, Dealers, Digital Imagery, Dog, Doors, Future, Gutter, Litter, Lonely, Memories, Oblivion, Odour, Paris, Poetry, Red Hair, Rue, Shoes, Sister, Skirt, Street, Taste, Whores | 1 Comment

LA FISSURE

Posted on 03/08/2019 by Nightpoet

“You spend so much time, so much effort,

trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

~ David Levithan ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Answer, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fissure, Future, Life, Memories, Nothing, Nowhere, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Photography, Pieces, Poetry, Question, Shadows, Survival | 1 Comment

THE IMAGE

Posted on 19/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“To carry language from two dimensions

into three is the task of the poets.”

~ Terence McKenna ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Assistance, Comprehension, Death, Depth, Digital Imagery, Documentation, Future, Image, Imagination, Non-Existence, Oblivion, Observation, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plight, Poetry, Prisoner, Solace, Street Art, Struggle, Substance, Time, Two-Dimensionality, World | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Oblivion

“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Existence is a series of footnotes

to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Don’t it always seem to go

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Absence – that common cure of love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are many black holes, and there are many universes.

Life is a never ending circle, and so too, is death.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All has been looted, betrayed, sold;

black death’s wing flashed ahead.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Words are also seeds,

and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance,

they grow and bring forth after their kind.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work.

We cannot keep living on hope, though.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The ghosts you chase you never catch.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Lonely men with lonely eyes are seeking her in vain.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You spend so much time, so much effort,

trying to hold yourself together.

And then everything falls apart anyway.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To carry language from two dimensions

into three is the task of the poets.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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