Posts Tagged With: Oblivion

PHASES AND SHADOWS

Posted on 31/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

~ John Greaves ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Au Revoir, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fate, Friends, Horizon, Life, Light, Memories, Moon, Night, Nowhere, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Phases, Photography, Poetry, Street, Truth | 1 Comment

FADE

Posted on 29/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Life has to be given a meaning

because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

~ Henry Miller ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Accomplishments, Anonymity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fade, Future, History, Instant, Life, Memories, Names, Nothing, Oblivion, Obscurity, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Posterity, Time | 2 Comments

CASTING SHADOWS

Posted on 16/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Comprehension, Death, Digital Imagery, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sunlight, Understanding, Universe | 1 Comment

LE PETIT POISSON

Posted on 11/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bait, Bite, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Fish, Hook, Life, Meaninglessness, Oblivion, Ocean, Perspective, Petit Poisson, Photography, Poetry, Water, Worm | 1 Comment

THE IMAGE

Posted on 25/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“To carry language from two dimensions

into three is the task of the poets.”

~ Terence McKenna ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo 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

NOTHING AT ALL

Posted on 06/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Belief never was, is not and will never be truth.”

~ Erik Barth ~

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, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | 3 Comments

AN UNLISTED NUMBER

Posted on 27/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.”

~ George Sand ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Oblivion, Parents, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Telephone, Unlisted Number, Voices | 1 Comment

LAST LEAF

Posted on 12/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Kite-Like, Labyrinths, Leaf, Leaves, Love, Mazes, Mouth, Netherland, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puzzles, Seasons, Voice, Wind, Winter, Words | 1 Comment

STILLLEBEN

Posted on 07/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Atoms, Belief, Conversations, Death, Decanter, Digital Imagery, Distance, Energy, Father, Glass, Life, Mother, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smoke, Space, Time, Vase, Wings | 1 Comment

NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN

Posted on 23/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”

~ George Eliot ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Atoms, Beauty, Comedy, Dead End Street, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Energy, Horror, Life, Mayfly, Nightmares, No Deposit, No Return, Oblivion, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Sensuousness, Thread, Tragedy | 1 Comment

MY WOODEN FACE

Posted on 18/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blackness, Clueless, Confused, Digital Imagery, Face, Flames, Future, Heart, Lies, Life, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Truth, Wood, Youth | 1 Comment

MAYFLIES

Posted on 09/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“Time is a river sweeping away

all that is born towards the darkest shore.”

~ Félix J. Palma ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken by M. Weller in June 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Backstage, Curtain, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Encore, Life, Mayfly, Oblivion, One Act Show, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 3 Comments

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

Posts Tagged With: Oblivion

“If I die in this city let my soul drown in the Seine,

don’t make the wheel start up again,

then is now and now is then, it’s the same thing…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life has to be given a meaning

because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To carry language from two dimensions

into three is the task of the poets.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Belief never was, is not and will never be truth.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…life, by definition, is never still.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time is a river sweeping away

all that is born towards the darkest shore.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“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:

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