Posts Tagged With: Past

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

000 laughs in your face 1

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 ~

000 waiting for the end

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 ~

000 face in the wall 1

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 ~

000 larmes de bleu 2

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 ~

000 l’ombre de la mort 1

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 ~

000 empires 1

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

towards the light

Posted on 07/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

000 towards the light 1

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

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 | 1 Comment

thin around cause

Posted on 28/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

000 thin around cause 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altars, Breadth, Breath, Cause, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Effect, Eyes, Flame, Future, Length, Mountains, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ponder, Present, Reflect, Time, Universal Rhyme, Vision, Water, Windows | 1 Comment

gray

Posted on 12/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“A gray day provides the best light.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

000 gray 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Breezes, Colour, Darkness, Days, Digital Imagery, Gradients, Gravestone, Gray, Landscapes, Life, Mountains, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shadows, Summer, Time, Vistas, Wind, Windows | 1 Comment

draws the bow

Posted on 02/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“After silence, that which comes nearest

to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

000 draws the bow 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bow, Cadence, Composition, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Ear, Emotions, Future, Heart, Life, Love, Melody, Motion, Music, Notes, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbow, Sensuous, Song, Street Art, Strings, Time, Tone | 1 Comment

le penseur

Posted on 29/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Voltaire ~

000 le penseur 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Art, Avarice, Awareness, Beauty, Compassion, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Enlightenment, Fools, Future, History, Idiots, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lemmings, Life, Literature, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progress, Propaganda, Science, Shadows, Stupidity, Thinking, Time, Transition, Wisdom | 1 Comment

réflexions

Posted on 28/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence

which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”

~ Max Frisch ~

000 réflexions 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bucket, Death, Deception, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fish, Heaven, Life, Nothingness, Paris, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reflections, Religion, Reward, Time, Vision, Worm | 1 Comment

paradox three – excerpt

Posted on 26/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

000 paradox three – excerpt

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Astronomy, Black, Breath, Clouds, Dark, Digital Imagery, Heal, Hope, Life, Moon, Nights, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pitch, Poetry, Sleep, Sore, Stars | 1 Comment

the road

Posted on 26/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“The road never ends…only our vision does.”

~ Amit Reddy ~

000 the road 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Cognizance, Comprehension, Digital Imagery, Dimensions, Dream, Experiences, Flagstones, Illusion, Life, Memories, Past, Perceptions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pompeii, Road, Slight Of Hand, Space, Time | 1 Comment

happy ending

Posted on 09/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Words of snow, which fell last year.”

~ German Proverb ~

000 happy ending 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Happy Ending, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Legacy, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

now

Posted on 02/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~

000 now 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees | 1 Comment

golden fleece

Posted on 23/09/2022 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 day after

Posted on 19/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

~ Dejan Stojanovic ~

000 the day after 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of mold on a wall, taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: After, Boats, Castles, Character, Clothed, Coats, Cold, Darkness, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Hours, Laughter, Life, Moats, Night, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Shadows, Shelter, Storm, Thoughts, Throats, Time | 1 Comment

tiptoe away

Posted on 18/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed,

we wear belief and custom.”

~ Cyril Connolly ~

00 tiptoe away 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Crabs, Crater, Crustaceans, Cuttlebones, Death, Digital Imagery, Feet, Life, Moon, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Seaweed, Tide, Tiptoe | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Past

“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:

Like this:

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A gray day provides the best light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“After silence, that which comes nearest

to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence

which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The road never ends…only our vision does.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Words of snow, which fell last year.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Quantum est in rebus inane!”

“How much folly there is in human affairs.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed,

we wear belief and custom.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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