Posts Tagged With: Politics

EYESWIDE

Posted on 16/08/2018 by Nightpoet

“Living is easy with eyes closed,

misunderstanding all you see.”

~ John Lennon ~

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

STILL DELUDED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS

Posted on 05/08/2018 by Nightpoet

“A rational army would run away.”

~ Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Carrot And Stick, Death, Delusion, Digital Imagery, Future, History, Illusion, Life, Murder, Paris, Past, Peace, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Promise, Street Art, War | 1 Comment

MONKEYSHINES

Posted on 04/08/2018 by Nightpoet

“You just can’t make this shit up…”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created in July 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Circus, Clown, Cocksplat, Digital Imagery, Hear No Evil, Mascots, Morality, Photography, Poetry, Politics, President Pussy Grabber, Republican Family Values, See No Evil, Speak No Evil | 3 Comments

SHEEP, WOLVES AND PIGS

Posted on 01/08/2018 by Nightpoet

“What can one do?

We are as helpless to control our Government

as we are to change the weather.”

~ Hortense Berthelot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at the King Barrows near Stonehenge, England in June 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barrow, Blind, Butcher, Clueless, Deaf, Death, Digital Imagery, Dumb, Greed, Ignorance, Life, Photography, Pigs, Poetry, Politics, Sheep, Slaughter, Stupidity, Swine, Wolves, Wool | 1 Comment

THE COST OF FREEDOM

Posted on 09/07/2018 by Nightpoet

“The tree of liberty must be

refreshed from time to time

with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

~ Thomas Jefferson ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cost, Death, Digital Imagery, Freedom, History, Liberty, Life, Paris, Photography, Piper, Poetry, Politics, Price, Street Art, Union, Vermin | 1 Comment

A NATION OF SHEEP

Posted on 02/07/2018 by Nightpoet

“Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.”

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brown, Corruption, Death, Digital Imagery, Emperor, Liar, Maggots, Manure, Misogynistic, Narcissistic, Nazi, Paris, Perverted, Photography, Pigs, Poetry, Politics, Racist, Sheep, Uneducated, Uninformed, Unintelligent, Wolves | 1 Comment

NEVEREVERMORE

Posted on 20/05/2018 by Nightpoet

“Gun violence is real.

People don’t come back.”

~ Stevie Wonder ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Children, Common Sense, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Fascists, Guns, Intelligence, Life, Morals, NRA, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Politicians, Politics, Violence | 1 Comment

THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

Posted on 19/05/2018 by Nightpoet

“Take your worthless thoughts and prayers

and shove them sideways up your ass.”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the Rue du Chat Qui Pêche in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Children, Death, Digital Imagery, Excuses, Guns, Lives, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Prayers, Religion, Students, Thoughts, Weapons | 1 Comment

PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – SEVEN

Posted on 11/05/2018 by Nightpoet

“Il est interdit d’interdire.”

“It is forbidden to forbid.”

~ Graffiti in Paris May 1968 ~

Digitally enhanced image “1968” created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Prose | Tags: Digital Imagery, France, History, May 1968, Nanterre, Paris, Photography, Politics, Prose, Protests, Revolution, Social Revolution, Strikes, Students, Trade Union Protests, Unions, Workers | 1 Comment

PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – ONE

Posted on 05/05/2018 by Nightpoet

“There are few things more dangerous than

a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.”

~ Bob Herbert ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art depicting German Chancellor Andrea Merkel taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Charlatans, Corporate Domination, Demonstrators, Despots, Digital Imagery, Economic Reform, France, Immigrant, Megalomaniacs, Paris, Party For Macron, Photography, Poetry, Police, Politics, Protests, Taxi | 1 Comment