Posts Tagged With: Present

time

Posted on 14/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely.

He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost,

a thing that can haunt a man’s days and nights.”

~ Cathie Pelletier ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dimension, Dreams, Future, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time, Wasted Time | 2 Comments

FLIGHTS OF FANCY

Posted on 04/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,

and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Flights Of Fancy, Future, Memories, Mind, Page, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Progress, Sense, Sight, Sound, Syntax | 1 Comment

FOSSILIZED INSTANCES

Posted on 25/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Though we are made of memories,

we live only in the here and now.”

~ Sue Halpern ~

000 fossilized instances

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Eye, Flame, Incomprehension, Instances, Life, Memory, Moths, Past, Perspective, Petrified, Photography, Poetry, Present, Real, Spiral | 1 Comment

THIN AROUND CAUSE

Posted on 31/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the Seine taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altars, Breadth, Breath, Cause, Dreams, Effect, Eyes, Flame, Future, Length, Mountains, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ponder, Present, Reflect, Time, Universal Rhyme, Vision, Water, Windows | 1 Comment

NO FUTURE FOR FOOLS

Posted on 01/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”

~ Zadie Smith ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Fools, Future, No Future, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time | 1 Comment

STRANGE HOW WE MET

Posted on 28/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

~ Anthony Burgess ~

Digitally enhanced image created in August 2020 from two scans of a signed Penguin edition of A Clockwork Orange. From the author’s personal collection.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: A Clockwork Orange, Blunders, Digital Imagery, Dream, Future, Knitting, Lines, Love, Memories, Miles, Past, Perspective, Poetry, Present, Roads, Rose, Song, Thorn, Time, Tongue, Untie, Westover, Wonders, Words, Wrote, Yarn, Young | 1 Comment

NOT FADE AWAY

Posted on 26/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“You show me continents, I see the islands,

You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.”

~ Bjork ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Coexistence, Cohesion, Continuum, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eternity, Faces, Fade, Forever, Found, Future, Infinity, Janus, Life, Lips, Lost, Mouth, Never, Past, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Reason, Sound, Space, Time, Vortex | 1 Comment

LIFELINES

Posted on 30/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“The hand is the visible part of the brain.”

~ Immanuel Kant ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beaten Track, Bestseller, Book, Death, Digital Imagery, Formula, Fuss, Future, Imagination, Life, Lifelines, Memories, Organization, Outline, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Territory, Time, Trails, Work | 1 Comment

THE GHOSTS OF THINGS UNREMEMBERED

Posted on 11/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

TOO MANY BOOKS

Posted on 27/02/2019 by Nightpoet

“Psychopathia librorum….

I surround myself with the printed word.”

~ Sven Birkerts ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amuse, Beauty, Books, Digital Imagery, Dust, Entertain, Future, History, Knowledge, Learning, Literature, Memories, Pages, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Shelves, Think, Time, Time Machine | 2 Comments

THE BOX

Posted on 09/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

~ James Joyce ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Box, Charade, Darkness, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Forgotten, Foundations, Future, Gray, History, Indifference, Life, Lock, Memories, Night, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Sky | 1 Comment

FLIGHTS OF FANCY

Posted on 17/04/2018 by Nightpoet

“Some might think that the creativity,

imagination, and flights of fancy

that give my life meaning are insanity.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Flights Of Fancy, Future, Memories, Mind, Page, Paris, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Present, Progress, Sense, Sight, Sound, Syntax | 1 Comment

FLY

Posted on 22/11/2017 by Nightpoet

“Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Death, Fly, Future, Lesson, Life, Nothingness, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Street Art, Wings | 1 Comment

ILLUSIONS

Posted on 16/08/2017 by Nightpoet

“Time is but an illusion created by

beings with limited perception.”

~ Ken Poriot ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art | Tags: Butterfly, Future, Illusions, Life, Movement, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Seasons, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

Posted on 03/08/2017 by Nightpoet

“Days are stringed instruments

and every one strikes a different note.”

~ Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Haikus, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Folly, Haikus, Life, Paradise, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Time | 1 Comment

THE PATH OF BROKEN PROMISES

Posted on 08/11/2016 by Nightpoet

“Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance you must keep moving.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Erbenheim, Germany in November 1985.

Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Broken Promises, Digital Imagery, Future, Leaving, Past, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Promises | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Present

“He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely.

He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost,

a thing that can haunt a man’s days and nights.”

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“Some might think that the creativity, imagination,

and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Though we are made of memories,

we live only in the here and now.”

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Like this:

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

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“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”

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“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”

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“You show me continents, I see the islands,

You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.”

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“The hand is the visible part of the brain.”

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“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

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“Psychopathia librorum….

I surround myself with the printed word.”

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“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.”

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Like this:

“Some might think that the creativity,

imagination, and flights of fancy

that give my life meaning are insanity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time is but an illusion created by

beings with limited perception.”

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Like this:

“Days are stringed instruments

and every one strikes a different note.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is like riding a bicycle.

To keep your balance you must keep moving.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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