Posts Tagged With: Past

PORTAILS PARALLÈLES

Posted on 20/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“What if, instead of a parallel universe,

there’s a perpendicular universe?”

~ Robert Breault ~

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, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Profane, Sacred, Science, Simultaneous, Synchronization, Universes | 1 Comment

STILL DELUDED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

Posted on 07/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“A rational army would run away.”

~ Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Carrot And Stick, Death, Delusion, Digital Imagery, Future, History, Illusion, Life, Murder, Paris, Past, Peace, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Street Art, War | 1 Comment

FLIGHTS OF FANCY

Posted on 04/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,

and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Flights Of Fancy, Future, Memories, Mind, Page, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Progress, Sense, Sight, Sound, Syntax | 1 Comment

RIEN

Posted on 03/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“No one here gets out alive.”

~ Jim Morrison ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Instant, Learn, Life, Memories, Moon, Nothing, Paris, Past, Perception, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Rien, Spark, Stardust, Time | 1 Comment

MELANCHOLY

Posted on 01/10/2021 by Nightpoet

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

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bittersweet, Digital Imagery, Melancholy, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street, Time | 3 Comments

SLICES

Posted on 29/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“I am not interested in a slice of life,

what I want is a slice of the imagination.”

~ Carlos Fuentes ~

000 slices 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Elixir, Feel, Future, Learn, Life, Listen, Love, Memories, Music, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Slices, Song, Time, Touch | 2 Comments

FOSSILIZED INSTANCES

Posted on 25/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Though we are made of memories,

we live only in the here and now.”

~ Sue Halpern ~

000 fossilized instances

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

TIMELESS TOMES

Posted on 14/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“So many books, so little time.”

~ Frank Zappa ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beauty, Books, Bookshelves, Candles, Daylight, Digital Imagery, Electricity, Energy, Evolution, Existence, Future, Human Endeavor, Ideas, Knowledge, Lifeblood, Literature, Music, Opinions, Past, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Technology, Time Machines | 1 Comment

MY WOODEN FACE

Posted on 18/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blackness, Clueless, Confused, Digital Imagery, Face, Flames, Future, Heart, Lies, Life, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Truth, Wood, Youth | 1 Comment

NO ROOM FOR RAINBOWS

Posted on 17/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“The color of truth is gray.”

~ Andre Gide ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clothes, Clouds, Coffee, Digital Imagery, Future, Gray, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbows, Room, Sky, Steam, Window | 1 Comment

THE DISTANCE OF MYTH

Posted on 28/05/2021 by Nightpoet

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

~ Tennessee Williams ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken from the summit of one of the Peaks Of Otter in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia 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

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

Posts Tagged With: Past

“What if, instead of a parallel universe,

there’s a perpendicular universe?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A rational army would run away.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,

and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“No one here gets out alive.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I am not interested in a slice of life,

what I want is a slice of the imagination.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Though we are made of memories,

we live only in the here and now.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“So many books, so little time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The color of truth is gray.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“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:

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