Posts Tagged With: Politics

TALK TALK

Posted on 26/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

MINISTRONY OF POPTIMISM

Posted on 17/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

I CAN’T BREATHE

Posted on 03/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

MONKEY MAN

Posted on 02/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: America, Asshole, Bible, Cross, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fascism, Flag, Fox, Henhouse, Kill, Monkey, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Shoot, Thieves, Till | 1 Comment

THE LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE

Posted on 04/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

CAPITALISM MUST DIE

Posted on 26/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

COME BLOW YOUR HORN

Posted on 09/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 2 Comments

THE END OF AN EMPIRE

Posted on 08/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

WAG THE DOG

Posted on 06/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

REVOLUTION NOW!

Posted on 05/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

CAPITALIST PIGS

Posted on 03/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“There are no owners in nature.”

~ Freequill ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Capitalist Pigs, Capitalistic Corporatism, Cesspool, Corporate Domination, Corporations, Crimes, Darkness, Death, Democracy, Digital Imagery, Eradication, Extermination, Future, Life, Mercy, No Quarter, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plutocracy, Poetry, Police State, Politics, Protests, Radical Action, Staus Quo, Time, Voting, Workers | 3 Comments

RENDER UNTO CAESAR

Posted on 27/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”

~ George R.R. Martin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Caesar, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Greed, Hate, Immortality, Lies, Life, Mutton, Nipple, Perspective, Plutocracy, Poetry, Politics, Promises, Sheep, Shepherd, Slaughter, Time, Wind | 1 Comment

SHEEP

Posted on 13/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious,

and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”

~ Moliere ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in December 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aristocrat, Bigots, Bleat, Bollocks, Capitalism, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Flock, Future, Gripe, Groan, Grumble, History, Ignorance, Intelligence, Lambs, Life, Mask, Misdeeds, Misnomers, Molotov Cocktail, Paris, Past, Photography, Pigs, Poetry, Politics, Revolution, Rich, Sheep, Shepherd, Slaughter, Snore, Street Art, Stupidity, Time | 1 Comment

BULBOUS MAXIMUS ~ A FAIRY TALE

Posted on 10/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“Nationalism is an infantile thing.

It is the measles of mankind.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ass, Balls, Bovid, Bribes, Caprice, Darkness, Death, Dick, Digital Imagery, Disgusting, Drawn and Quartered, Fairy Tale, Feces, Hate, Heads, History, Ignorance, Life, Nasty, Obnoxious, Odious, Paris, Photography, Pikes, Poetry, Politics, Prick, Propaganda, Rabble, Racist, Repugnant, Revolution, Shadows, Stupidity, Tweeting, Veremin | 1 Comment

LA DOULEUR

Posted on 04/08/2019 by Nightpoet

“Guns don’t kill people. They just make it easier.”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of Jean Escoula’s sculpture La Douleur in the Musée d’Orsay taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Change, Citizenry, Corrupt Congress, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fascist Administration, Guns, Life, Madness, NRA, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Solution, Terrorist Organization, Thoughts And Prayers | 1 Comment

WITHOUT A COUNTRY

Posted on 23/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“The evils of capitalism are as real

as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bibles, Capitalist Pigs, Constitution, Corporate Vermin, Country, Death, Democracy, Digital Imagery, Fascists, Finger, Fist, Freedom, Future, History, Law, Life, Mercy, No Quarter, Oppressors, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pigs, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Revolution, Revolutionary, Socialism | 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

BRICK BY BRICK

Posted on 21/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beams, Beauty, Brainlessness, Bricks, Certitude, Charlatans, Clowns, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Dunces, Environment, Half-Timbered, Insight, Intellect, Intelligence, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Logic, Music, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Science, Stupidity, Time, Truth, Wisdom | 1 Comment

LOVE YOUR WORLD

Posted on 13/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art by Kefran taken in Paris in June 2018.

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 | 1 Comment

TALK TALK

Posted on 28/12/2018 by Nightpoet

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

~ James Lendall Basford ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

Posts Tagged With: Politics

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A great revolution is never the fault of the people,

but of the government.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When fascism comes to America,

it will be wrapped in the flag

and carrying a cross.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The point is, you can never be too greedy.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“An intelligence that is not humane

is the most dangerous thing in the world .”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Any man can make mistakes,

but only an idiot persists in his error.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“How can I rise if you don’t fall?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are no owners in nature.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A lion doesn’t concern itself with the opinion of sheep.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious,

and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Nationalism is an infantile thing.

It is the measles of mankind.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Guns don’t kill people. They just make it easier.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The evils of capitalism are as real

as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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