“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness
strung together on necklace of despair?”
~ Marian Keyes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2019.
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Posts Tagged With: Old
towards the light
“For the unlearned, old age is winter;
for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”
~ Hasidic Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.
© 2023 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Age, Clouds, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Fate, Future, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Ironic, Life, Light, Memories, Old, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sagacity, Satisfaction, Sentience, Thirst, Time, Vision, Young, Youth
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open book
“A breeze discovered my open book,
and began to flutter the leaves to look.”
~ Robert Frost ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bookshelf, Chapters, Chart, Compass, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Documentation, Dog-Eared, Dreams, Emotions, Fog, Handwritten, Index, Letters, Life, Lines, Love, Memories, Obscure, Old, Pages, Paragraphs, Paris, Passion, Past, Pencil, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reviews, Shadows, Tattered, Time, Tome, Trivial, Wishes, Worn
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CAMOUFLAGED
“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”
~ Margaret Atwood ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Autumn, Boulevards, Camouflage, Chill, Dampen, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dungeon, Fog, Future, Labyrinths, Landscape, Leaves, Life, Memories, Mystery, Old, Old Age, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rues, Shadows
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BLUE SILENCE
“To me, words are primarily things to do with your mouth.”
~ Robert Wyatt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the painting “Blue Pain” (2009) by M. Weller taken in May 2021.
© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved
DAUGHTER OF THE MOON
“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,
that monthly changes in her circled orb,
lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
READ THEM THEIR RIGHTS
“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,
and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by C+S taken in Paris in May 2019.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Bedded, Books, Digital Imagery, Finality, Fools, Incoherent, Jewels, Life, Night, Old, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Read, Reality, Rights, Rules, Sauce, Smile, Sounds, Spools, Street Art, Style
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TOWARDS THE LIGHT
“For the unlearned, old age is winter;
for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”
~ Hasidic Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2020.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Age, Clouds, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Fate, Future, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Ironic, Life, Light, Memories, Old, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sagacity, Satisfaction, Sentience, Thirst, Time, Vision, Young, Youth
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FOSSIL
“Language is fossil Poetry.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2020.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Acoustics, Ammonites, Chasteness, Digital Imagery, Disguise, Elastic, Emotions, Floor, Fossil, Frayed, Kissing, Licorice, Life, Lines, Lips, Memories, Mesmerized, Mineralized, Music, Night, Old, Past, Perspective, Phosphorites, Photography, Poetry, Postulating, Remember, Sacrifice, Salivating, Sea, Slithered, Song, Stone Faced, Syncopating, Thighs, Time, Wasted, White Lies, Young
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KNOW MYSELF
“Know thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world.
Over the portal of the new world, ‘Be thyself’ shall be written.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in May 2007.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cell, Changes, Colour, Consciousness, Creature, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fossilization, Future, Hands, Imagination, Know, Life, Memories, Mirror, Old, Palette, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Self-Awareness, Spotted, Time, Wrinkled
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OPEN BOOK
“A breeze discovered my open book,
and began to flutter the leaves to look.”
~ Robert Frost ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bookshelf, Chapters, Chart, Compass, Darkness, Death, Documentation, Dog-Eared, Dreams, Emotions, Fog, Handwritten, Index, Letters, Life, Lines, Love, Memories, Obscure, Old, Pages, Paragraphs, Paris, Passion, Past, Pencil, Photography, Poetry, Reviews, Shadows, Tattered, Time, Tome, Trivial, Wishes, Worn
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CAMOUFLAGED
“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”
~ Margaret Atwood ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
WAITINGS
“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.”
~ Walter Bargen ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2019. Courtesy of VollMond GmbH.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Acceptance, Affection, Birth, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Future, Godot, Hatred, Life, Love, Maturity, Old, Peace, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Time, Touch, Understanding, Waiting
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FLEETING HEART…
“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness
strung together on necklace of despair?”
~ Marian Keyes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in July 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
HOW MANY HANDS
“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
~ Charles Spurgeon ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ardour, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, Doorknob, Emotions, Forbearance, Grace, Hands, Heart, Hope, Key, Life, Love, Memories, Old, Paris, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Promise, Sensuous, Shadows, Sin, Tattered, Time, Torn, Understanding, Weathered, Worn
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DESSAMA
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
AUTUMNAL
“For the unlearned, old age is winter;
for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”
~ Hasidic Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
LAISSANT VIE
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old,
but that one is young.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the grave of Dr. Paul Curlay in the Cimetière du Montparnasse taken in Paris in August 2017.
© 2017 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Age, Death, Digital Imagery, Ghosts, Laissant Vie, Leaving, Lies, Life, Memories, Night, Old, Old Age, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Shadows, Time
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EVERMORE FOREVER
“We will either find a way or make one.”
~ Hannibal ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2015.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics
Tags: Age, America, Digital Imagery, Old, Oligarchy, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Theocracy, Tired, Weary
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