“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Posts Tagged With: Poison
now
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees
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the new little corporal
“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
And the tigers are getting hungry.”
~ Winston Churchill ~
Digitally enhanced image created from various unknown sources in October 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bastard, Death, Dictator, Digital Imagery, Ego, Lies, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Slaughter, Truth, Veremin, War
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les mensonges
“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adam and Eve, Apple, Charlatans, Digital Imagery, History, Ignorance, Les Mensonges, Lies, Life, Old Testament, Paris, Peasants, Pewter, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Proletarian, Seduction, Snake, Spoons, Truth
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OPIATE
“Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.
Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blind Belief, Chalice, Common Sense, Digital Imagery, Equality, Lies, Life, Masses, Open-Mindedness, Opiate, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Prejudice, Reason, Religion
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OUR POISON SWEET
“…drink my lovely, drink it down…”
~nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2015.
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SAILOR
“We sailed for parts unknown to man,
where ships come home to die…”
~ Keith Reid ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Corner, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Edge, Emotions, Eyes, Faces, Hold, Leather, Life, Love, Mornings, Night, Nightmare, Ocean, Parched, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pulp, Reason, Sailor, Ship, Sky, Stars, Storm, Throat, Time, Word, World
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CALIX
“Suspicion is a tenuous thing,
so impalpable that the exact moment of its birth
is not easy to determine.”
~ Francis Iles ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a painting by an unknown artist taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aphrodisiac, Beauty, Calix, Craving, Darkness, Death, Die, Digital Imagery, Drink, Elixir, Emotions, Eyes, Fate, Goblet, Heart, Hunger, Intentions, Life, Live, Love, Malice Aforethought, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Shadows, Thirst
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LA CHAMBRE ROUGE
“Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry,
Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!”
~ Arthur Rimbaud ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.
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THE LIBATION
“A gender-equal society would be one where
the word ‘gender’ does not exist:
where everyone can be themselves.”
~ Gloria Steinem ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Artist, Beauty, Chains, Creativity, Cup, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Female, History, Imagination, Libation, Life, Male, Pain, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Prejudice, Society, Status Quo, Subjugation, Subservience, Wine
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LES MENSONGES
“Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Adam and Eve, Apple, Charlatans, Digital Imagery, History, Ignorance, Les Mensonges, Lies, Life, Old Testament, Paris, Peasants, Pewter, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Proletarian, Seduction, Snake, Spoons, Truth
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SHIP OF FOOLS
“The human race was dyin’ out,
no one left to scream and shout.”
~ Jim Morrison ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Les Halles in Paris in June 2018.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ants, Bees, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dolphins, Dust, Extinction, Feces, Flowers, Fools, Fukushima, Future, Garbage, Grasses, Insects, Life, Nuclear Waste, Paris, Particles, Photography, Plastic, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Putrid, Radiation, Ship, Trees, Whales
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BE WE
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the early 1980’s.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Children, Clown, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Food, Fools, Future, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lies, Life, Merit, Morals, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Shills, Skills, Wisdom
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FOUR FRAGMENTS
“A man is a very small thing,
and the night is very large and full of wonders.”
~ Edward Plunkett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Glücksburg, Germany on the Baltic Sea in Summer 1984.
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SMOKE SIGNALS
“A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.
It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.
What more can one want?”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in May 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Addiction, Arsenic, Breath, Calumet, Carbon Monoxide, Carcinogenic, Choke, Cigarettes, Cough, Cyanide, Death, Digital Imagery, Formaldehyde, Habit, Kismet, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Smoke
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NE PAS AVALER
“Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Drink, Fata Morgana, Fear, Hatred, Heart, Illusion, Intolerance, Life, Love, Money, Paris, Peace, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Politicians, Profit, Prosperity, Street Art, Truth, War
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NOW
“Quantum est in rebus inane!”
“How much folly there is in human affairs.”
~ Aulus Persius Flaccus ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Animals, Bees, Birds, Broken Promises, Children, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Fish, Folly, Future, History, Human Folly, Life, Nightmare, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, Street Art, Symmetry, Time, Trees
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SCORPION
“If you lay with a scorpion,
don’t be surprised when it finally stings you.”
~ DaShanne Stokes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2018.
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PABLUM
“Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.”
~ Paul Eldridge ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Munich, Germany in June 2014.
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Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Avarice, Death, Digital Imagery, Environment, Greed, Pablum, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pollution, White Supremacy
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