Posts Tagged With: Ocean

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

might have made a difference

Posted on 15/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water | 1 Comment

THE DECEMBER DREAM

Posted on 22/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from a photo taken in October 2017, provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises. Used with permission.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Boat, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dolphins, Dream, Emotions, Fantasy, Hair, Heart, Legends, Life, Lips, Love, Memories, Moon, Mystery, Night, Ocean, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Shoreline, Time, Wind | 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

BOUILLON

Posted on 31/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

~ Moliere ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boil, Bouillon, Circles, Digital Imagery, Eye, Fog, Nomads, Ocean, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Salt, Sea, Ships, Sodium Chloride, Soup, Stew, Wings | 1 Comment

DUST BY THE SHOVEL

Posted on 27/02/2021 by Nightpoet

**“Sometimes she was fine when the moon would shine,**

unfortunately it was usually cloudy…”

~ nightpoet ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Gerhard Marcks’ sculpture Spielende Hengste (Frolicking Stallions) (1962) taken in 1980..

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Drift, Dust, Fine, Hovel, Love, Moon, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shine, Shovel, Sift, Street, Years | 1 Comment

FROM THE STARS STRUNG

Posted on 27/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Age does not protect you from love.

But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1985.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barrows, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Love, Nipples, Ocean, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, River, Shadows, Sighs, Stars, Thighs, Valley, Youth | 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.

SAILOR

Posted on 09/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“We sailed for parts unknown to man,

where ships come home to die…”

~ Keith Reid ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Corner, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Edge, Emotions, Eyes, Faces, Hold, Leather, Life, Love, Mornings, Night, Nightmare, Ocean, Parched, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pulp, Reason, Sailor, Ship, Sky, Stars, Storm, Throat, Time, Word, World | 1 Comment

THE DECEMBER DREAM

Posted on 24/02/2019 by Nightpoet

“In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret,

an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.”

~ Diego Marchi ~

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in October 2017, provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises. Used with permission.

FOUR FRAGMENTS

Posted on 20/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“A man is a very small thing,

and the night is very large and full of wonders.”

~ Edward Plunkett ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Glücksburg, Germany on the Baltic Sea in Summer 1984.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breast, Breath, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Friends, Life, Memories, Night, Ocean, Past, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Sky, Song, Stars | 1 Comment

HEART SAILS AWAY

Posted on 22/11/2018 by Nightpoet

“The heart of man is very much like the sea,

it has its storms, it has its tides

and in its depths it has its pearls too.”

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Coastlines, Death, Digital Imagery, Doldrums, Fog, Harbour, Heart, Horizon, Islands, Life, Love, Mist, Moon, Ocean, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Ports, Rain, Reefs, Rocks, Safe Harbour, Seas, Stars, Street Art, Sun, Time, Voyage, Wind | 2 Comments

LE PETIT POISSON

Posted on 01/04/2018 by Nightpoet

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2018.

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

MY FATHER’S ASHES

Posted on 19/03/2017 by Nightpoet

“We are in the black theater of nonexistence.

In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze,

for the vast drama of ourselves.”

~ Herman Wouk ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Virginia Beach, Virginia in November 2010.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Life, Non-existent, Nothingness, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Soul, Waves | 1 Comment

ENTREPÔT

Posted on 10/01/2017 by Nightpoet

“Not so much two ships passing in the night

as two ships sailing together for a time

but always bound for different ports.”

~ P. D. James ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a pocket camera photo taken in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland in August 1975.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boats, Digital Imagery, Harbour, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Port, Quay, Sea, Ships | 1 Comment

MIGHT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE

Posted on 06/11/2016 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut,

the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted;

when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

1972

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Environment, Fish, Forest, Humanity, La Gomera, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Trees, Water | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Ocean

“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:

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

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:

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sometimes she was fine when the moon would shine,

unfortunately it was usually cloudy…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Age does not protect you from love.

But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

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:

“We sailed for parts unknown to man,

where ships come home to die…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret,

an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A man is a very small thing,

and the night is very large and full of wonders.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The heart of man is very much like the sea,

it has its storms, it has its tides

and in its depths it has its pearls too.”

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:

“We are in the black theater of nonexistence.

In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze,

for the vast drama of ourselves.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Not so much two ships passing in the night

as two ships sailing together for a time

but always bound for different ports.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When the last tree is cut,

the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted;

when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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