Posts Tagged With: Prison

in the balance

Posted on 02/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance

that their own human ancestors established.”

~ Joan D. Vinge ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021. Photo courtesy of Matschnbrei Photography GmbH.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Cold, Curtains, Digital Imagery, Distant, Fear, Gray, Hard, Indifferent, Isolation, Life, Normality, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Suspicion, Tear, Windows | 1 Comment

the final act

Posted on 31/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“I knew if I waited around long enough

something like this would happen.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

(epitaph)

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Act, Actors, Audience, Digital Imagery, Flowers, Freedom, Lines, Makeup, Mask, Mirror, Paradox, Perspective, Photography, Players, Poetry, Prison, Real, Scene, Script, Smiles, Stage, Unreal, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

prison

Posted on 27/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“I said, warden, warden, warden, won’t ya break your lock and key,

yeah, come along here, mister, c’mon and let the poor boy be…”

~ Jim Morrison ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amnesty, Cell, Crime, Days, Digital Imagery, Godot, Life, Love, Months, Pardon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Prisoner, Reprieve, Sin, Solitary Confinement, Touch, Warden, Weeks | 1 Comment

wordless

Posted on 20/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“I have no words for my reality.”

~ Max Frisch ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from photos taken in Paris in May and June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breathing, Bucket, Christ, Clouds, Cosmos, Crutch, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Door, Earned, Edge, Feeble Minded, Gills, Hair, Learned, Lesson, Life, Lips, Liquid, Lungs, Maw, Moon, Mouth, Night, Opposition, Paris, Penny, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Prison, Respect, Seed, Shadows, Soul, Sponge, Spores, Stars, Stolen, Tongue, Van Gogh, Window, Winds, Wordless | 1 Comment

THE FINAL ACT

Posted on 25/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

(epitaph)

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2017.

OUT THERE

Posted on 15/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“We long to return to normal, but normal led to this…”

~ Ed Yong ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Breath, Contact, Dangerous, Dark, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Gloves, Isolation, Madness, Mask, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Safe, Shadows, Street | 1 Comment

BRIDGE THIS SCHISM

Posted on 26/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

but delicious in the years of maturity.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Communication, Curse, Days, Digital Imagery, Distance, Fabrication, Myth, Nights, Perspective, Phone, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Schism, Sing, Song, Wisdom | 1 Comment

PRISON

Posted on 12/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

~ Betsy Lerner ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2020.

WORDLESS

Posted on 27/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“I have no words for my reality.”

~ Max Frisch ~

Digitally enhanced image created from photos taken in Paris in May and June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breathing, Bucket, Christ, Clouds, Cosmos, Crutch, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Door, Ear, Earned, Edge, Feeble Minded, Gills, Hair, Learned, Lesson, Life, Lips, Liquid, Lungs, Maw, Moon, Mouth, Night, Opposition, Paris, Penny, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Prison, Respect, Seed, Shadows, Soul, Sponge, Spores, Stars, Stolen, Tongue, Van Gogh, Window, Winds, Wordless | 1 Comment

DÉSIR ROUGE

Posted on 20/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“There are two tragedies in life.

One is to lose your heart’s desire.

The other is to gain it.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Captive, Chains, Desire, Emotions, Erotica, Heart, Life, Love, Lust, Night, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Sensuality, Sex, Shadows | 1 Comment

PRISM’D PRISON

Posted on 01/09/2018 by Nightpoet

“English words are like prisms.

Empty, nothing inside,

and still they make rainbows.”

~ Denis Johnson ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Crypt, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Hand, Heart, Life, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Prism, Prison, Rainbow, Shadows, Skull, Sunlight, Walls | 1 Comment

LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS

Posted on 20/03/2018 by Nightpoet

“…it’s been a long cold lonely winter…”

~ George Harrison ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aconites, Cage, Crocuses, Daffodils, Death, Depression, Digital Imagery, Flowers, Hyacinths, Ice, Irises, Life, Past, Photography, Poetry, Printemps, Prison, Rite Of Spring, Seasons, Snow, Spring, Sun, Tulips, Warmth, Wind, Winter | 1 Comment

LA PORTE VERROUILLÉE ET BOULONNÉE

Posted on 28/10/2017 by Nightpoet

“Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

I shall find one.”

~ Thomas Browne ~

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

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bolted, Digital Imagery, Doors, Escape, Locked, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Prisoner, Redemption, Salvation | 1 Comment

CAGED

Posted on 11/10/2017 by Nightpoet

“The eyes of others our prisons;

their thoughts our cages.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

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

Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cages, City, Digital Imagery, Gutters, Heart, Imagination, Life, Love, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Sidewalks, Streets | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Prison

“Humans are upsetting a fragile balance

that their own human ancestors established.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I knew if I waited around long enough

something like this would happen.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I said, warden, warden, warden, won’t ya break your lock and key,

yeah, come along here, mister, c’mon and let the poor boy be…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have no words for my reality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We long to return to normal, but normal led to this…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,

but delicious in the years of maturity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have no words for my reality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are two tragedies in life.

One is to lose your heart’s desire.

The other is to gain it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“English words are like prisms.

Empty, nothing inside,

and still they make rainbows.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…it’s been a long cold lonely winter…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Death hath a thousand doors to let out life.

I shall find one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The eyes of others our prisons;

their thoughts our cages.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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