Posts Tagged With: Past

THE CUSP OF A DREAM

Posted on 03/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.”

~ Eugene O’Neill ~

Digitally realised painting developed from an image first created in September 1976.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breast, Cusp, Days, Distances, Dream, Haunt, Heavens, Ink, Meteors, Night, Noise, Pale, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sky, Star, Stirrings, Windy | 3 Comments

NO MEANING

Posted on 02/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ancestors, Beginning, Children, Ending, Hear, Listen, Loop, Meaning, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Sing, Whisper, Words | 3 Comments

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

WHAT WE WANT TO SEE

Posted on 31/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are always remaking history.

Our memory is always

an interpretive reconstruction of the past,

so is perspective.”

~ Umberto Eco ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Events, Eyes, Fiction, Imagination, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street, Writers, Year | 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

THIS YEAR OF PLAGUE

Posted on 15/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague.

Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 2 Comments

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

UP TO OUR ASHES

Posted on 30/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Love. Of course, love.

Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Burn, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Doldrums, Duality, Emotions, Fire, Life, Love, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Ride, Riverside, Time, Toasted, Turns, Twists, Wife | 1 Comment

ALWAYS BAREFOOT IN THE BRAMBLES

Posted on 29/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.

And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

~ Philippe Forest ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adjectives, Adverbs, Automatic, Barefoot, Beauty, Brambles, Cheshire Cat, Conjunctions, Creativity, Curves, Digital Imagery, Dreamtime, Emotions, Energy, Erratic, Fences, Heart, Imagination, Life, Love, Memories, Mouth, Neuron, Nouns, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prepositions, Pulses, Signals, Static, Taste, Thorns, Time, Verbs, Wine, Words | 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

THE SECRET OF THE PARADOX

Posted on 25/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Ah, but I was so much younger then…”

~ nightpoet ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arms, Died, Digital Imagery, Direction, Emotions, Eyes, Feast, Frames, Hungry, Inspiration, Life, Love, Memories, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Poetry, Secret, Sighs, Street Art, Time, Woman, Young | 1 Comment

NO REHEARSAL

Posted on 15/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of my lovely Ladies taken sometime around 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Bed, Digital Imagery, Exhausted, Fair, Fender, Floor, Gibson Les Paul Custom, Guitars, Life, Love, Music, Notes, Orgasmic, Ovation, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pure, Rickenbacker, Sex, Sing, Song, Strings, Table, Voice, Wall, Yamaha | 1 Comment

LORELEI’S GHOST

Posted on 13/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Beneath me flows the Rhine,

and, like the stream of Time,

it flows amid the ruins of the Past.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Rhine taken in February 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Drown, Fingers, Germany, Ghost, Life, Lorelei, Music, Pace, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precedent, Rain, Rhine River, River, Rotterdam, Sediment, Sunday, Time, Walks, Waters | 1 Comment

AFTERLIFE

Posted on 12/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.

But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.

We are programmed to betray.”

~ Michael Ignatieff ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an archaeological find material storage depot taken in the early 1990’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Archaeology, Bones, Cartons, Catalogued, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eternity, Graves, Heaven, Hell, History, Illustrated, Life, Measured, Memories, Numbered, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resurrection, Reward, Shelves, Skeletons, Storeroom, Studied, Time | 3 Comments

ON THE MENU HERE

Posted on 09/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.”

~ Elaine Dundy ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a pocket camera photo taken near Agia-Anna, Naxos, Greece in August 1979.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Buy, Digital Imagery, Disnterest, Experience, Eyes, Flies, Honey, Lies, Life, Love, Menu, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sell, Shelf Life, Toast | 1 Comment

GRAY

Posted on 05/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“A gray day provides the best light.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

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

STRANGE HOW WE MET

Posted on 28/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

~ Anthony Burgess ~

Digitally enhanced image created in August 2020 from two scans of a signed Penguin edition of A Clockwork Orange. From the author’s personal collection.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: A Clockwork Orange, Blunders, Digital Imagery, Dream, Future, Knitting, Lines, Love, Memories, Miles, Past, Perspective, Poetry, Present, Roads, Rose, Song, Thorn, Time, Tongue, Untie, Westover, Wonders, Words, Wrote, Yarn, Young | 1 Comment

THE FIRST ACT IN THE TRAGEDY OF TOUCH

Posted on 25/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Touch has a memory.”

~ John Keats ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of a restored Roman mosaic taken in June 2004.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bubbles, Country Bumpkins, Death, Digital Imagery, Distance, Emotions, First Act, Kings, Life, Love, Lyre, Madness, Magic, Moments, Music, Notes, Offender, Orpheus, Past, Perspective, Photography, Play, Poetry, Pretender, Queens, Role, Tears, Touch, Tragedy, Troubles, University, Weeping | 1 Comment

FROM THE ASHES

Posted on 22/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”

~ Octavia Butler ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Ashes, Atmosphere, Bleeding, Cerebral, Credentials, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Embers, Feathered, Feces, Fire, Flashes, Impressed, Life, Lightning, Night, Past, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Ribbons, Sashes, Smoked, Smouldered, Stars, Sun, Unblest, Undressed, Wings | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Past

“Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.”

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:

“We are always remaking history.

Our memory is always

an interpretive reconstruction of the past,

so is perspective.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Love. Of course, love.

Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All memories fade away in the end. Then, only dreams are left.

And because they are all we have, we confide our life’s worries to them.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Ah, but I was so much younger then…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Beneath me flows the Rhine,

and, like the stream of Time,

it flows amid the ruins of the Past.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.

But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.

We are programmed to betray.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A gray day provides the best light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Touch has a memory.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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