Posts Tagged With: Past

RUE DE JACOB REFLECTIONS

Posted on 21/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to be,

the last of life,

for which the first was made.”

~ Robert Browning ~

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

LARMES DE BLEU

Posted on 16/05/2019 by Nightpoet

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

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

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

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

COBWEB STRANGE

Posted on 14/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“And alien tears will fill for him

pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bats, Beauty, Bleached, Bones, Chamber, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Energy, Grit, Heavens, Life, Memories, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Persona, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleep, Spirits, Time, Wind, Worms | 1 Comment

LE TAUREAU

Posted on 29/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“We have invented nothing new.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

(after seeing the cave paintings of Lascaux)

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a sculpture by Ule Ewelt taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Art, Artist, Beast, Beauty, Bull, Cave, Cave Art, Cave Paintings, Charcoal, Colours, Dreamer, Hands, History, Human, Imagination, Lines, Ochre, Painting, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sketch, Spirit, Taurus, Time | Leave a comment

L’OMBRE DE LA MORT

Posted on 26/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

~ Thomas Browne ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original 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 | 1 Comment

BARGAIN DAY

Posted on 22/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little

but needs that little so much.”

~ Margaret Willour ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Memories, Old Age, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Possessions | 2 Comments

BRICK BY BRICK

Posted on 21/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beams, Beauty, Brainlessness, Bricks, Certitude, Charlatans, Clowns, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Dunces, Environment, Half-Timbered, Insight, Intellect, Intelligence, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Logic, Music, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Science, Stupidity, Time, Truth, Wisdom | 1 Comment

THE SHADOW OF HER BREAST

Posted on 20/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“The word and the shadow of the word

makes a thing both itself and something else

till we are metaphors and not ourselves…”

~ Derek Walcott ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Breasts, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Night, Nipple, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Shadows, Silhouette, Songs, Time, Tongue, Words, Young | 1 Comment

NINE SILVER GOBLETS OF ME

Posted on 17/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather

and a little music played out of doors

by somebody I do not know.”

~ John Keats ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Ghost, Goblets, Grim Reaper, Life, Love, Memories, Pain, Past, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Rain, Seasons, Sun, Thirst, Time, Toast, Treasure, Vine, Wine | 1 Comment

À TRAVERS LE MIROIR

Posted on 15/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“I can explain all the poems that were ever invented –

and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet.”

~ Lewis Carroll ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alice In Wonderland, Cards, Carpenter, Death, Digital Imagery, Dormouse, Inside Out, Life, Mad Hatter, Oysters, Paris, Past, Paul McCartney, Pearls, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rabbits, Red Queen, Shoelaces, Smiles, Tongues, Walrus | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Past

“Grow old along with me!

The best is yet to be,

the last of life,

for which the first was made.”

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

“And alien tears will fill for him

pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

“We have invented nothing new.”

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

“Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little

but needs that little so much.”

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

“The word and the shadow of the word

makes a thing both itself and something else

till we are metaphors and not ourselves…”

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather

and a little music played out of doors

by somebody I do not know.”

“I can explain all the poems that were ever invented –

and a good many that haven’t been invented just yet.”

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