Posts Tagged With: Past

wee

Posted on 25/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“It takes a long time to become young.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma in November 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Birth, Cradle, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Emergence, Free, Growing, Gurgle, Innocence, Jungle, La Palma, Leaves, Life, Liquid, Past, Photography, Poetry, Rime, Scribble, Slaughter, Slobber, Time | 1 Comment

la vie

Posted on 23/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Dead, Digital Imagery, Eat, Emotions, Feelings, La Vie, Life, Nonexistence, Nothing, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Shit, Sleep, Space, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

melancholy

Posted on 12/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve…”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bittersweet, Digital Imagery, Melancholy, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street, Time | 1 Comment

portails parallèles

Posted on 06/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“What if, instead of a parallel universe,

there’s a perpendicular universe?”

~ Robert Breault ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bright, Day, Digital Imagery, Future, Mundane, Night, Obscure, Paradox, Parallel, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Profane, Sacred, Science, Simultaneous, Synchronization, Universes | 3 Comments

flounder flat

Posted on 29/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“Words may be false and full of art;

Sighs are the natural language of the heart.”

~ Thomas Shadwell ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Candle, Cocoon, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dream, Duvet, Eyes, Flounder, Life, Love, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Priapus, Rainbows, Ribbons, Sheets, Sighs, Skin, Sleep, Smile, Thighs, Wings | 1 Comment

the distance of myth

Posted on 15/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1977.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Distance, Dreams, Emotions, Faces, Gravity, Life, Love, Moons, Mountains, Myth, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puzzle, Roads, Sheets, Sleep, Stained, Stars, Starstuff, Time, Traces, Valleys, Words | 1 Comment

fossilized instances

Posted on 03/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“Though we are made of memories,

we live only in the here and now.”

~ Sue Halpern ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Eye, Flame, Incomprehension, Instances, Life, Memory, Moths, Past, Perspective, Petrified, Photography, Poetry, Present, Real, Spiral | 1 Comment

halcyon

Posted on 24/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

primordial vagabond notes

Posted on 15/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.”

~ Miles Davis ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Airs, Consciousness, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Empty, Feelings, Full, History, Life, Music, Notes, Nothing, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhythms, Scene, Soundtrack, Spirit, Stage, Substance, Thoughts, Time, Tragicomedy, Vibrations, Vision | 1 Comment

dead roses

Posted on 09/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“One man gathers what another man spills…”

~ Robert Hunter ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blind, Dead Roses, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Feelings, Life, Liturgy, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrances, Roses, Time | 1 Comment

peace

Posted on 27/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

~ George Carlin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Avarice, Awareness, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fanatics, Future, Greed, History, Life, Love, Mercy, Nightmare, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Self-Aggrandizement, Selfishness, War, Wealth, Weapons | 1 Comment

bagages

Posted on 24/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Never be a prisoner of your past,

it was just a lesson, not a life sentence…”

~ Anonymous ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bagages, Baggage, Childhood, Digital Imagery, Dirty Laundry, Emotions, Heart, Life, Love, Memories, Opportunity, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Relationships | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 10/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

death and cobwebs

Posted on 25/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

~ Rajneesh ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time | 1 Comment

laughs in your face

Posted on 23/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

~ Jim Morrison

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Cheats, Clocks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Equality, Equalizer, Face, Future, Laughs, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reaper, Shadows, Shiver, Smile, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

waiting for the end

Posted on 21/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

~ Maurice Chevalier ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Companions, Death, Digital Imagery, End, Friends, Future, Goodbyes, Icons, Idols, Life, Obliquity, Oblivion, Obscurity, Opaque, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shroud, Soliloquy, Vigil, Waiting | 1 Comment

face in the wall

Posted on 20/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“The countenance is the portrait of the soul,

and the eyes mark its intentions.”

~ Cicero ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blind, Centuries, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Haze, Oblivion, Obsidian, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sandstone, Time, Wall | 1 Comment

larmes de bleu

Posted on 16/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Faux Pas, Follies, Future, Life, Light, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Soul, Tears, Time, Weep, Window | 1 Comment

l’ombre de la mort

Posted on 15/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

~ Thomas Browne ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Companion, Conception, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Hourglass, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Time | 3 Comments

empires

Posted on 10/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Past

“It takes a long time to become young.”

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“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

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“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What if, instead of a parallel universe,

there’s a perpendicular universe?”

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Like this:

“Words may be false and full of art;

Sighs are the natural language of the heart.”

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Like this:

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Though we are made of memories,

we live only in the here and now.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.”

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Like this:

“One man gathers what another man spills…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Never be a prisoner of your past,

it was just a lesson, not a life sentence…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The countenance is the portrait of the soul,

and the eyes mark its intentions.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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