Posts Tagged With: Passion

HOT SCALES SLITHER

Posted on 16/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

~ Anne Carson ~

000 hot scales slither

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in June 2006.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acrid, Capitulation, Death, Digital Imagery, Effluvium, Life, Lips, Love, Malefic, Obscene, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Redemption, Reptilian, Salvation, Scales, Seduction, Senses, Sex, Skin, Slither, Sour, Taste, Tongue, Venomous | 1 Comment

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

STARS

Posted on 23/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via”

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

~Seneca ~

000 stars 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air Lock, Black Holes, Cosmic, Emotions, Eyes, Grease Monkey, Love, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Wasteland | 3 Comments

LEPIDOPTERA FANTASTIC

Posted on 20/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blossoms, Breezes, Butterfly, Chalice, Death, Digital Imagery, Feeling, Flowers, Fragrance, Lepidoptera, Life, Light Fantastic, Nectar, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Summer, Terpsichore, Wings | 1 Comment

MIRACLE

Posted on 10/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,

but wise words endure.”

~ Edward Thorndike ~

000 miracle 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a wall advertisement taken in the Marais district of Paris in July 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belief, Comprehension, Digital Imagery, Electrochemical Signals, Form, Miracle, Myth, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Preservation, Religion, Substance, Superstition, Thoughts, Vision, Words, Writing | 1 Comment

LESSONS IN THE HALF LIGHT

Posted on 30/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust…”

~ Rumi ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Summer 2004.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blazing, Choreography, Complexity, Dances, Dervish, Desire, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Half Light, In Between, Interweaving, Intricacy, Lessons, Life, Loom, Passion, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Waiting | 1 Comment

LE PEINTRE DU PRINTEMPS

Posted on 27/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blush, Canvas, Colours, Crimson, Digital Imagery, Fertility, Painter, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pigment, Poetry, Printemps, Spring | 1 Comment

ELECTRIC ECLECTIC

Posted on 24/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

Digitally enhanced solarized image created from a photo taken in April 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Desires, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eclectic, Egg, Electric, Emotion, Energy, Expression, Fertile, Influences, Inspirations, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Semen, Stimulation, Substance, Thoughts, Thrust | 1 Comment

POTPOURRI

Posted on 06/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1971.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Delusions, Digital Imagery, Grace, Illusions, Lines, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potpourri, Sails, Trails, Travails, Trials, Truth, Youth | 1 Comment

THE EPITOME OF SIN

Posted on 25/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner

is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting, taken in Paris, date unknown.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anticipation, Breasts, Brushes, Desire, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Grace, Hair, Palette, Passion, Perfection, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Sin, Wall, Wine | 1 Comment

THE TERPSICHORE OF TENDERNESS

Posted on 07/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“Tenderness is the rest of passion.”

~ Joseph Joubert ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Mlle M. Rellew taken in February 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anachronism, Archaic, Awareness, Choreographed, Deep, Digital Imagery, Emotion, Fervour, Molten, Passion, Path, Patience, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prehistoric, Primitive, Primordial, Retrogression, Smouldering, Tenderness, Terpsichore, Understanding | 1 Comment

ONE DAY LESS

Posted on 01/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“But dare rather to quit the platform,

plunge into the sublime seas,

dive deep, and swim far…”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Digitally enhanced painting created in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Day, Digital Imagery, Exercise, Forever, Future, Horizon, Life, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Sublime, Success, Youth | 1 Comment

THIN AROUND CAUSE

Posted on 31/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altars, Breadth, Breath, Cause, Dreams, Effect, Eyes, Flame, Future, Length, Mountains, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ponder, Present, Reflect, Time, Universal Rhyme, Vision, Water, Windows | 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

CRINKLE CRANKLE

Posted on 26/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.”

~ Robert Frost ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of the ruins of the Celtic defensive wall on the Altkönig mountain in Germany in the summer of 1985.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Artists, Colour, Conformity, Convention, Creators, Dancers, Digital Imagery, Dreamers, Energy, Free Spirits, Life, Musicians, Painters, Passion, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poets, Rare, Romantics, Routine, Sculptors, Spirit, Straight And Narrow, Unique | 1 Comment

THE SILENCE OF HER LIES

Posted on 04/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.”

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dancing, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Empty, Eyes, Hands, Lies, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Wasteland | 1 Comment

TOO TIRED TO TRY

Posted on 24/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apart, Beginnings, Bewitching, Career, Contemplation, Creation, Cycle, Distance, Emotion, Line, Lives, Love, Mime, Partners, Passion, Pastime, Path, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Pièce De Résistance, Pleasure, Poetry, Pursuit, Release, Revolution, Rhyme, Time, Tired, Together, Try, Whispers | 1 Comment

LAST FEW BREATHS

Posted on 02/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window.

His last breath obscures the glass.”

~ Anne Michaels ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1989.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arms, Bits And Pieces, Breath, Covers, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Ghost, Healing, Hearts, Lilywhite, Lines, Lovers, Mouth, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sensuousness | 1 Comment

WHAT IT COST ME

Posted on 21/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

~ Janet Todd ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barrows, Book, Calm, Cost, Digital Imagery, Feet, Fingers, Lost, Mounds, Nectar, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pore, Quiet, Rainbow, Ribbons, Sedate, Sheets, Sighs, Sin, Sleep, Sound, Tongue, Triangles, Valley, Warm, Web | 1 Comment

COFFEE CORNER

Posted on 10/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arousal, Beans, Body, Cappuccino, Coca Powder, Coffee, Corner, Digital Imagery, Espresso, Filter, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Soul, Thirst | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Passion

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“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:

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via”

“There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall,

but wise words endure.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner

is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Tenderness is the rest of passion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“But dare rather to quit the platform,

plunge into the sublime seas,

dive deep, and swim far…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

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:

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

and that has made all the difference.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window.

His last breath obscures the glass.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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