Posts Tagged With: Poetry

sparkle

Posted on 27/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

000 sparkle 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Atoms, Digital Imagery, Electrons, Energy, Heart, Higgs Boson, Life, Love, Matter, Neutrons, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protons, Quarks, Stardust, Universe, Walls | 1 Comment

like mushrooms

Posted on 26/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“There are poisons that blind you,

and poisons that open your eyes.”

~ August Strindberg ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Experience, Mushrooms, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poisons, Shadows, Truth | 1 Comment

wee

Posted on 25/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“It takes a long time to become young.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma in November 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Birth, Cradle, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Emergence, Free, Growing, Gurgle, Innocence, Jungle, La Palma, Leaves, Life, Liquid, Past, Photography, Poetry, Rime, Scribble, Slaughter, Slobber, Time | 1 Comment

siren

Posted on 24/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

~ Gertrude Stein ~

000 siren 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balls, Beauty, Breasts, Capitulation, Carnal, Death, Depth, Digital Imagery, Dung, Emotions, Erotica, Finality, Finger, Flies, Flotsam, Folly, Heart, Licentious, Life, Love, Music, Nipples, Orgasmic, Oscillations, Passion, Perspective, Phallus, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Seduction, Sex, Siren, Slaughter, Suckled | 1 Comment

la vie

Posted on 23/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Dead, Digital Imagery, Eat, Emotions, Feelings, La Vie, Life, Nonexistence, Nothing, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Shit, Sleep, Space, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

touch

Posted on 22/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Find someone who will tremble for your touch,

someone whose fingers are a poem.”

~ Janet Fitch ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Affection, Digital Imagery, Feeling, Heart, Intimacy, Language, Life, Love, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Tactility, Touch, Warmth, Wasteland | 1 Comment

a colour of dust

Posted on 21/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

~ Omar Khayyam ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Curtain, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Life, Night, Nightmare, Perspective, Plague, Poetry, Room, Sins, Smell, Sound, Stars, Vision, Voice, Wall, Whispering, Winds, Wine, Woman | 1 Comment

thistles and thorns

Posted on 20/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

~ Rumi ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Song, Sublime, Thistles, Thorns | 1 Comment

i’ll wait

Posted on 19/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in England in June 1979.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Down, Face, Fate, Late, Life, Parties, Perspective, Photography, Pilgrim, Poetry, Sleep, Space, Time, Topsy-Turvy, Up, Wait | 1 Comment

immediate curtain

Posted on 18/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is a cosmic joke.”

~ Robert Wyatt ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brushes, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Immediate, Life, Love, Memories, Music, Needles, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Thimbles, Thistles | 3 Comments

the brown couch

Posted on 17/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Love is blind; couch not his eyes.”

~ George Henry Lewes ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amber, Couch, Desire, Determination, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fingers, Laughter, Life, Love, Neck, Nibbles, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Sea, Smile, Taste, Tongue | 1 Comment

purple shroom

Posted on 16/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brains, Cerebral Batter, Cow Pies, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Mouth, Mushrooms, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Staircase, Street Art, Worms, Yin And Yang | 1 Comment

on the cusp

Posted on 15/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

~ Audre Lorde ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bleeping, Bone, Boogie, Cows, Cusp, Cuspid, Digital Imagery, Dish, Dog, Dreams, High, History, Life, Love, Moon, Night, Pale Face, Perspective, Photography, Pirate, Poetry, Sky, Spoon, Stars, Thighs, Thrust, Trace, Wife | 3 Comments

la nuit noir

Posted on 14/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Tomorrow night is nothing but

one long sleepless wrestle

with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.”

~ William Faulkner ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Cobbled, Digital Imagery, Gutters, Lanes, Night, Nightmares, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows | 3 Comments

double vision

Posted on 13/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool,

a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

~ Sholem Aleichem ~

000 double vision 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken Germany in September 2009.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belfry, Digital Imagery, Double Vision, Dreamlike, Lark's Tongue, Life, Perception, Perspective, Philtre, Photography, Plaster, Pleasure, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art, Truffle | 1 Comment

melancholy

Posted on 12/05/2023 by Nightpoet

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

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bittersweet, Digital Imagery, Melancholy, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street, Time | 1 Comment

singer of silloliquies

Posted on 11/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.”

~ John Coltrane ~

000 singer of silloliquies

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boudoir, Candlelight, Choir, Dancer, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotion, Imagination, Life, Love, Night, Notes, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Sensuous, Sighs, Singer, Skin, Soul, Spectacle, Splurges, Sublime, Supreme, Wet | 1 Comment

soothe a savage breast

Posted on 10/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

~ William Congreve ~

000 soothe a savage breast 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breast, Digital Imagery, Dissonance, Dreams, Harmony, Heart, Instruments, Life, Music, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Visions, Voices, Wind | 1 Comment

chrystal holograms

Posted on 09/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“We don’t need to explain our love. We only need to show it.”

~ Paulo Coelho ~

000 chrystal holograms

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aesthetic, Appealing, Bangs, Cold, Dark, Digital Imagery, Feelings, Hands, Healing, Holograms, Life, Light, Love, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Relevant, Revealing, Rich, Ripe, Sensual, Toes, World | 1 Comment

house and garden

Posted on 08/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“She has a house and garden,

I would like to see what happens…”

~ Jim Morrison ~

000 house and garden

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Birdsong, Curtains, Digital Imagery, Dogs, Embrace, Eyes, Garden, Hedges, Home, Hopelessly, Journey, Life, Light, Lost, Love, Night, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smiles, Symphony, Trees, Wandering | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Poetry

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are poisons that blind you,

and poisons that open your eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It takes a long time to become young.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.

We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren

until she allures us to our death.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Find someone who will tremble for your touch,

someone whose fingers are a poem.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a cosmic joke.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Love is blind; couch not his eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Tomorrow night is nothing but

one long sleepless wrestle

with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool,

a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Damn the rules, it’s the feeling that counts.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We don’t need to explain our love. We only need to show it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“She has a house and garden,

I would like to see what happens…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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