Posts Tagged With: Peace

too tired to try

Posted on 06/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apart, Beginnings, Bewitching, Career, Contemplation, Creation, Cycle, Digital Imagery, Distance, Emotion, Line, Lives, Love, Mime, Paris, Partners, Passion, Pastime, Path, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Pièce De Résistance, Pleasure, Poetry, Pursuit, Release, Revolution, Rhyme, Time, Tired, Together, Try, Whispers | 1 Comment

the voice of delusion

Posted on 25/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“You know that voice you hear inside your head when you think that

God or Jesus is talking personally to you? Well it’s the same voice

that people hear when they think that aliens are contacting them

or that the Devil is telling them to do something. It is the voice of delusion…”

~ Anonymous ~

000 the voice of delusion

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belief, Burn, Celebrate, Change, Children, Christmas, Delusion, Digital Imagery, Family, Flock, God, Hatred, Hell, Intolerance, Love, Miracles, Partner, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Problems, Reason, Religion, Savior, Stress, Suffering, Voice, War | 1 Comment

gramophone

Posted on 02/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end

the milestones into headstones change,

neath every one a friend.”

~ James Russell Lowell ~

000 gramophone

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Au Revoir, Beard, Carrots, Child, Cucumbers, Death, Digital Imagery, Drowned, Echoes, Frigidity, Gramophone, Grandmother, Life, Lips, Love, Opera Glove, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Piano, Poetry, Room, Score, Screams, Silence, Silent Film, Slaughter, Sour Wine, Swaddled, Wide Eyed | 1 Comment

diving for pearls

Posted on 25/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“The drowning man is not troubled by the rain.”

~ Anonymous ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bright, Calm, Death, Digital Imagery, Drowning, Ears, Edge, Embrace, Eyes, Light, Nothing, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Sings, Soft, Warm | 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

war

Posted on 04/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“Violence completes the partial mind.”

~ Peter Blegvad ~

000 war

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of ants at war taken in June 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ant Hills, Ants, Beautiful, Black Holes, Competition, Curse, Death, Digital Imagery, Fabric, Fantasy, Fodder, Harmonious, Life, Maniacs, Nature, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Stars, Universe, Violence, Weapons, Wet Dream | 1 Comment

this too shall pass

Posted on 11/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

000 this too shall pass 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Future, Haphazardly, Hopes, Horror, Knowledge, Life, Morass, Oblivion, Pain, Pass, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Sleep, Solace, Time, Tumble, Vicious Circle, Void, Womb | 1 Comment

peace on earth

Posted on 27/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love,

while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

~ John Lennon ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in New York City, printed from an original negative and taken as Lennon sat in an automobile in front of The Dakota Building sometime in the mid to late 1970’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dreamers, Earth, Hatred, John Lennon, Killing, Love, Paradox, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Revolution, Violence, War | 1 Comment

half full

Posted on 26/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“Don’t hold your breath…”

~ nightpoet ~

000 half full 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Earth, Egotism, Glass, Half Full, Heritage, Mankind, Nationalistic, Paris, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Tribal, Tribe | 1 Comment

PEACE

Posted on 09/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

~ George Carlin ~

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

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

L’AMOUR EST MORT

Posted on 09/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Now you’re just a stranger, with all my secrets.”

~ Charles Dickens ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Happiness, Heart, Illusion, Lies, Life, Love, Paris, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soul, Street Art | 1 Comment

HALF FULL

Posted on 25/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“Don’t hold your breath…”

~ nightpoet ~

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

TOO TIRED TO TRY

Posted on 24/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apart, Beginnings, Bewitching, Career, Contemplation, Creation, Cycle, Distance, Emotion, Line, Lives, Love, Mime, Partners, Passion, Pastime, Path, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Pièce De Résistance, Pleasure, Poetry, Pursuit, Release, Revolution, Rhyme, Time, Tired, Together, Try, Whispers | 1 Comment

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.

THE PRICE PAID

Posted on 16/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Every luxury must be paid for,

and everything is a luxury,

starting with being in this world.”

~ Cesare Pavese ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blue, Brown, Coffee Grounds, Digital Imagery, Freedom, Knees, Morning, Music, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Price, Reality, Room, Sleep, Steam, Streets, Treaties, Warm | 1 Comment

EAR LOBE LICE

Posted on 02/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“Everybody who does not live in a prostitute’s bed

and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo (detail) of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cocaine, Crime, Digital Imagery, Ear Lobe, Hedgehogs, Imagination, Lice, Lip, Notes, Paris, Partners, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Pipes, Poetry, Prostitute, Pussies, Reasoning, Ribbons, Robes, Ropes, Seasonings, Shoes, Shorts, Socks, Songs, Soothsayers, Source, Strength, Stripes, Swami | 1 Comment

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

Posted on 30/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2014.

WAITINGS

Posted on 13/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.”

~ Walter Bargen ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2019. Courtesy of VollMond GmbH.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acceptance, Affection, Birth, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Future, Godot, Hatred, Life, Love, Maturity, Old, Peace, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Time, Touch, Understanding, Waiting | 1 Comment

RÉVOLUTION

Posted on 01/05/2019 by Nightpoet

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of the police stopping demonstrators and searching their backpacks and hand bags taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Capitalist Pigs, Capitalists, Death, France, Future, History, Hope, Human Rights, Life, Minorities, No Future, Oligarchs, Oppressors, Paris, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Prosperity, Revolution, The Disenfranchised, The Elderly, The Poor, Voice, Walls, Working Classes | 2 Comments

Posts Tagged With: Peace

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You know that voice you hear inside your head when you think that

God or Jesus is talking personally to you? Well it’s the same voice

that people hear when they think that aliens are contacting them

or that the Devil is telling them to do something. It is the voice of delusion…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end

the milestones into headstones change,

neath every one a friend.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The drowning man is not troubled by the rain.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

~ Peter Blegvad ~

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love,

while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Don’t hold your breath…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A rational army would run away.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Now you’re just a stranger, with all my secrets.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Don’t hold your breath…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.

Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every luxury must be paid for,

and everything is a luxury,

starting with being in this world.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Everybody who does not live in a prostitute’s bed

and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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