“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Posts Tagged With: Politics
love your world
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War
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peace
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
~ George Carlin ~
Photo taken in March 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Avarice, Awareness, Compassion, Death, Emotions, Fanatics, Future, Greed, History, Life, Love, Mercy, Nightmare, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Self-Aggrandizement, Selfishness, War, Wealth, Weapons
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revolution
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.”
~ John F. Kennedy ~
Photo taken on May 17th 2016, at the Place Vavin during the Trade Union Protests in Paris as the police shoot tear gas canisters into the protesters. To the left is the Le Dome Café, to the right, not visible, the La Rotonde. The author got a good gassing.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Decadence, Demonstrations, Digital Imagery, Eternal, France, History, Human Nature, Paris, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Revolution, Trade Union Protests, Tyrants
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the ministrony of poptimism
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
~ Aesop ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Agency, Banana, Blue Ribbon, Bureau, Chaos, Confessions, Countermeasures, Department, Digital Imagery, Efforts, Executive, Hypocrisy, Juice, Liars, Minister, Narcissistic, Narcotics, Orifice, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Rain, Rhumba, Riddles, Secret, Sneakers, Street Art, System, Uncertainty
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peace
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
© 2023 nightpoet – all rights reserved
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
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monkey man
“When fascism comes to America, it will be
wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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a sea of humanity
“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever
in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Berlin, Cesspool, Compassion, Copulation, Death, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, History, Hubris, Humanity, Ignorance, Intelligence, Life, Obsession, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Science, Sex, Violence
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the ministrony of poptimism
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
~ Aesop ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Agency, Banana, Blue Ribbon, Bureau, Chaos, Confessions, Countermeasures, Department, Digital Imagery, Efforts, Executive, Hypocrisy, Juice, Liars, Minister, Narcissistic, Narcotics, Orifice, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Rain, Rhumba, Riddles, Secret, Sneakers, Street Art, System, Uncertainty
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love your world
“Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.
© 2022 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War
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PEACE
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.
© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved
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
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TALK TALK
“Many talk as easily as they breathe,
and with quite as little thought.”
~ James Lendall Basford ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Art, Cars, Cats, Cinema, Digital Imagery, Dogs, Dreams, Emotions, Energy, Fantasies, Fears, Heart, Hopes, Jobs, Kids, Life, Literature, Memories, Music, Neighbours, Nonsense, Nothing, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Sex, Space, Street Art, Thoughts, Time
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MINISTRONY OF POPTIMISM
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
~ Aesop ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Agency, Banana, Blue Ribbon, Bureau, Chaos, Confessions, Countermeasures, Department, Digital Imagery, Efforts, Executive, Hypocrisy, Juice, Liars, Minister, Narcissistic, Narcotics, Orifice, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Rain, Rhumba, Riddles, Secret, Sneakers, Street Art, System, Uncertainty
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I CAN’T BREATHE
“A great revolution is never the fault of the people,
but of the government.”
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: America, Bigotry, Black, Breathe, Capitalism, Change, Citizens, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Injustice, Justice, Life, Murdered, Outrage, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Protesters, Racism, Revolt, Revolution, Solidarity, Street, System, Televised, Thugs, Walls
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MONKEY MAN
“When fascism comes to America,
it will be wrapped in the flag
and carrying a cross.”
~ Anonymous ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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THE LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE
“After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Americans, Ass, Bloated, Constitution, Digital Imagery, Dumb-Eyed, Dump, Fat, Fingers, Golden Throne, Grunt, Little Hands, Milk And Honey, Narcissistic, Nothing, Old Man, Orange Face, Photography, Pig, Poetry, Politics, Pudgy, The Hill, Thumbs, Twiddle, White Mansion, Wonder
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CAPITALISM MUST DIE
“When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope.”
~ Joseph Stalin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Asthma, Avarice, Capitalism, Capitalist Pig, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fat Ass, Future, Greed, History, Lungs, Orange, Pension, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Shit Stained, Thighs, Weasel Eyes
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COME BLOW YOUR HORN
“The point is, you can never be too greedy.”
~ Donald J. Trump ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in July 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alternative Facts, America, Ass, Ayatollah, Big, Blow, Cock, Darkness, Death, Despots, Dictators, Digital Imagery, Fat Boy, Foot, Horn, Insults, Kiss, Knees, Lick, Life, Lips, Misinformation, Mouth, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Prick, Putin, Rocket Man, Shit Stained, Street Art, Tongue
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THE END OF AN EMPIRE
“An intelligence that is not humane
is the most dangerous thing in the world .”
~ Ashley Montagu ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Avarice, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Empire, Future, History, Life, Machiavellianism, Opportunistic, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Rubble, Time, Winds
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WAG THE DOG
“Any man can make mistakes,
but only an idiot persists in his error.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Neolithic dog burial taken in February 1988.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Awareness, Bimbo, Bitch, Compassion, Comprehension, Consequences, Corruption, Cult, Death, Depravity, Digital Imagery, Distraction, Empathy, Fascist Pig, Filth, Future, Hatred, History, Ignorance, Immorality, Intelligence, Photography, Pig, Poetry, Politics, Racism, Sense, Silicone, Teeny Weenie, Tiny Hands, Understanding, Worshipers
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REVOLUTION NOW!
“How can I rise if you don’t fall?”
~ Robert Wyatt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anarchy, Capitalism, Capitalist Pigs, Cheek, Conviction, Cooperation, Corruption, Crimes, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evil, Extreme Measures, Fascist Pigs, Firing Squad, Future, Govern, Guillotine, History, Institutions, Interests, Justice, Life, Morality, Past, Perspective, Persuasion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Punishment, Radical Action, Re-education, Revolution, Rope, Self Interest, Selfishness, Serve, Street Art, Trial
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