Posts Tagged With: Paris

POÈTE MAUDIT

Posted on 10/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“What can an eternity of damnation matter

to someone who has felt, if only for a second,

the infinity of delight?”

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

000 poète maudit

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in February 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Accursed, Convention, Death, Debauchery, Decadence, Digital Imagery, Disdain, Excess, Indulgence, Life, Love, Mean-Spirited, Norm, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poète Maudit, Poet, Poetry, Shadow, Straight And Narrow | 1 Comment

MAYPOLE

Posted on 24/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“I ought to be jealous of the tower.

She is more famous than I am.”

~ Gustave Eiffel ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Soufflot in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterglow, Cafés, Digital Imagery, Haikus, Lights, Lovers, Maypole, Night, Paris, Pearls, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Spring, Summer | 1 Comment

FRAME OF REFERENCE

Posted on 22/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it;

humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves

that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”

~ Ken Poirot ~

000 frame of reference 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Jardin d’Agronomie Tropicale in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Bois de Vincennes, Building, Change, Digital Imagery, Dimension, Disappear, Existence, Frame Of Reference, Lies, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Space, Time, Truths | 1 Comment

STAINED GLASS WINDOWS

Posted on 19/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“For she had eyes and chose me.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced cropped detail from an original photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chopping Block, Clown, Death Sentence, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Executioner, Eyes, Face, Feelings, Fool, Heart, Judge, Jury, Lips, Mask, Mushrooms, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Price, Sensuality, Smile, Stained Glass Windows | 1 Comment

MOON SHINES DOWN

Posted on 16/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Pain is universal, even the stars weep…”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Haikus, Misery, Moon, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Share, Shines | 1 Comment

LAST NIGHT ALIVE

Posted on 08/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

~ Mae West ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Digital Imagery, Earth, Existence, Hear, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purpose, See, Smell, Taste, Touch, Universe | 1 Comment

THE RED ROOM

Posted on 04/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abstract, Aksak Maboul, Amazement, Art Zoyd, Cadeau, Coda, Consciousness, Dada, Digital Imagery, Dissonant, Henry Cow, Hourglass, Lamp, Man Ray, Melodic, Music, Nothingness, Old Man, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Red, Resonance, Room, Sanctuary, Seclusion, Shadow, Shadows, Solitude, Speakers, Time, Turntable, Univers Zero | 1 Comment

HALF FULL

Posted on 25/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“Don’t hold your breath…”

~ nightpoet ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Earth, Egotism, Glass, Half Full, Heritage, Mankind, Nationalistic, Paris, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Tribal, Tribe | 1 Comment

TRAVELLERS LOST

Posted on 04/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“In your light I learn how to love.”

~ Rumi ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arms, Carnal, Contemplation, Conversation, Desire, Discovery, Feelings, Hold, Lost, Paris, Passionate, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Tides, Touch, Travellers | 1 Comment

NO FUTURE FOR FOOLS

Posted on 01/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”

~ Zadie Smith ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Fools, Future, No Future, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time | 1 Comment

RIB DANCE

Posted on 30/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Should I have brought earplugs?”

~ Kurt Nielsen ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Climax, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Experience, Eyes, Fabric, Lungs, Orgasm, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rib, Scream, Sigh, Song, Spasms, Squeak | 1 Comment

UNREALITY

Posted on 22/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“I like the unreality of your mind;

the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awake, Circles, Confusion, Corridor, Digital Imagery, Door, Dreams, Dreamtime, Eyes, Frustrations, Imagination, Joys, Paris, Perception, Perspective, Phantasmagoria, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Resurrected, Sleep, Spiral, Street Art, Subconsciousness, Time, Unreality | 1 Comment

WASTED SPACE

Posted on 20/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Someday” is a disease that will take

your dreams to the grave with you.”

~ Timothy Ferriss ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Bleed, Chance, Circumstance, Digital Imagery, Empty, Heed, Initiative, Insignificance, Life, Opportunity, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Space, Unnoticed, Wasted | 1 Comment

BRUSHED WITH A BLUSH

Posted on 19/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“A blush is no language; only a dubious flag – signal

which may mean either of two contradictories.”

~ George Eliot ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blush, Brush, Cheeks, Dancing, Digital Imagery, Faces, Paint, Parade, Paris, People, Perspective, Photography, Podiatrists, Poetry, Procession, Ravines, Slopes, Tears, Traces, Trauma, Walls, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

PISS POT PHILOSOPHY

Posted on 08/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions:

the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blasphemy, Burrows, Digital Imagery, Dream, Ecstasy, Fricassee, Fruits, Gypsum, Heartless, Holes, Hopeless, Mimicry, Moles, Paradox, Paris, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Rabbits, Souls, Street Art | 1 Comment

GARGOYLE SANS CATHEDRAL

Posted on 02/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a gargoyle on one of the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral taken in Paris in July 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cathedral, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Electric, Gargoyles, Grotesque, Haunches, Morning, Notre Dame, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Still Born | 1 Comment

SHINY BLACK ADJECTIVES

Posted on 01/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adjectives, Alley, Asphalt, Cobbles, Confidence, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emptiness, Movement, Mystery, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Shadows, Sihlouettes, Street, Symphony, Syntax, Verbs | 1 Comment

DEN OF THIEVES

Posted on 24/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

~ Hunter S. Thompson ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ballots, Charlatans, Citizens, Crimes, Death, Digital Imagery, Freedom Of Speech, Gassing, Indiscretions, Intimidating, Justice, Knaves, Le Rasoir National, Life, Lock Them Up, Paris, People, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Power, Protest, Thieves, Truth, Vote | 1 Comment

GOLDEN FLEECE

Posted on 01/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

~ Anne Sexton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Blood, Creature, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Golden Fleece, Hours, Life, Memories, Night, Nightmares, No Quarter, Paralyzed, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pools, Rain, Search, Shadows, Streets, Vomit | 1 Comment

THE DANCES I NEVER DANCED

Posted on 27/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

~ James Richardson ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Burns, Chances, Clouds, Dances, Darkness, Death, Desire, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Future, Game, Helpless, Hope, Horizon, Life, Love, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puppet, Street Art, Strings, Time, Winds, Wings | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Paris

“What can an eternity of damnation matter

to someone who has felt, if only for a second,

the infinity of delight?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I ought to be jealous of the tower.

She is more famous than I am.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it;

humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves

that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For she had eyes and chose me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Pain is universal, even the stars weep…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Don’t hold your breath…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“In your light I learn how to love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Should I have brought earplugs?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I like the unreality of your mind;

the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Someday” is a disease that will take

your dreams to the grave with you.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A blush is no language; only a dubious flag – signal

which may mean either of two contradictories.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions:

the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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