“…the concept of an all loving, all merciful god laid to waste by reality…”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Catacombs of Paris in May 2011.
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Posts Tagged With: Philosophy
the sadist
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Atheism, Blind Belief, Charlatans, Death, Digital Imagery, Free Will, Life, Paris, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Sadist, Sin, Suffering
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hopes and dreams
“The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable.
The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”
~ Ajahn Sumedho ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the ruins of Battle Abbey, near Hastings, England taken in June 1982.
© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Awareness, Churches, Classrooms, Cognitive Thought, Digital Imagery, England, Knowledge, Libraries, Life, Logic, Myth, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Ruins, Science, Shrines, Superstition, Truth
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the event horizon
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
~ Charles Bukowski ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.
© 2022 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Being, Breath, Canary Islands, Deleted, Digital Imagery, Event Horizon, Farewell, La Palma, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry, Portal
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the fragment of a tear
“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates
the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”
~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathy, Art, Cockroaches, Death, Digital Imagery, Dragonflies, Experiment, Extermination, Extinction, Future, Harmony, History, Hope, Humanity, Ignorance, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Memories, Music, Nature, Paris, Past, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Science, Stupidity, Tear, Time, Weep
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further
“There is no top.
There are always further heights to reach.”
~ Jascha Heifetz ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Boundaries, Digital Imagery, Dimensions, Further, Future, Horizons, Paris, Path, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Unheard, Unseen
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ONE THIN WIRE
“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”
~ Simon Van Booy ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.
© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Life, Moment, Night, Nothingness, Now, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Windows
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TIMELESS TOMES
“So many books, so little time.”
~ Frank Zappa ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2016.
© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved
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
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PISS POT PHILOSOPHY
“Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions:
the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”
~ Charles Baudelaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blasphemy, Burrows, Digital Imagery, Dream, Ecstasy, Fricassee, Fruits, Gypsum, Heartless, Holes, Hopeless, Mimicry, Moles, Paradox, Paris, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Rabbits, Souls, Street Art
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POEM FROM THE BOTTOM OF A BLACK HOLE
“There are many black holes, and there are many universes.
Life is a never ending circle, and so too, is death.”
~ Anthony T. Hincks ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2018.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animosity, Black Holes, Bottom, Clarity, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Energy, Escape, Existence, Fires, Future, Gravity, Imagination, Light, Light Years, Luminosity, Matter, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Particles, Past, Patterns, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Predictions, Pressure, Science, Sky, Soul, Stars, Sub-Atomic Energy, Thread, Time, Wisps, Words
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STAYING AFLOAT
“The world is filled with fools,
but none of them considers himself one,
or tries not to be one.”
~ Baltasar Gracián ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2010.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afloat, Awareness, Blind Belief, Common Sense, Comprehension, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Emotions, Exist, Facts, Flail, Flotsam, Flounder, Fools, Humanity, Ignorance, Imagination, Intolerance, Life, Noses, Nyaffs, Perception, Perspective, Perspicacity, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Prejudice, Reason, Reflections, Religion, Sea, Think, Water
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SUMMERTYME TRYST
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon;
to me those have always been
the two most beautiful words
in the English language.”
~ Henry James ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Boat, Communion, Desire, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Eyes, Heart, Hopes, Intimacy, Life, Literature, Love, Memories, Music, Paris, Passion, Past, Paths, Peregrination, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Respect, Sex, Summer, Tryst, Youth
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THE FRAGMENT OF A TEAR
“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates
the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”
~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apathy, Art, Cockroaches, Death, Digital Imagery, Dragonflies, Experiment, Extermination, Extinction, Future, Harmony, History, Hope, Humanity, Ignorance, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Memories, Music, Nature, Paris, Past, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Science, Stupidity, Tear, Time, Weep
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L’AMOUR EST DANS L’SPRAY
“Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.”
~ Jean Paul Richter ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Nemi taken in Paris in June 2018.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Artistic Creativity, Artistic Inspiration, Beauty, Digital Imagery, Life, Love, Message, Painting, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Sketches, Spray, Street Art, Street Theater, Vision
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LA ROUE DE LA VIE
“The wheel of a man’s life.
No mercy. No pity.”
~ Robert Jordan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman child’s toy wagon wheel, circa 1800 years old, taken in March 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chance, Circles, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fate, Journey, Life, Path, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Spinning, Time, Wagon, Wheel
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FURTHER
“There is no top.
There are always further heights to reach.”
~ Jascha Heifetz ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2016.
© 2017 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
Tags: Beauty, Boundaries, Digital Imagery, Dimensions, Further, Future, Horizons, Paris, Path, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Unheard, Unseen
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THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL
“…the universe has no sense of charity,
no laws of kindness and love…”
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of an excavated Roman cemetery taken in Germany in September 1987.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Archaeology, Creation, Digital Imagery, Galaxies, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Physics, Poetry, Religion, Science, Universe
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ONE THIN WIRE
“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”
~ Simon Van Booy ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2007.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Consciousness, Digital Imagery, Existence, Life, Moment, Nothingness, Now, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry
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RENEWAL
“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted,
and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them,
and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in May 2007.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Apples, Bees, Butterflies, Digital Imagery, Flowers, Lips, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Reincarnation, Renewal, Spirituality, Trees
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THE EVENT HORIZON
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
~ Charles Bukowski ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Canary Islands, Digital Imagery, Event Horizon, La Palma, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry
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MAYBE NOT
“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity,
for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Munich, Germany in June 2014.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Floating, Germany, Mountain, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Relaxation, Wise Man
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