Posts Tagged With: Promise

BLUE SILENCE

Posted on 27/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“To me, words are primarily things to do with your mouth.”

~ Robert Wyatt ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the painting “Blue Pain” (2009) by M. Weller taken in May 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blue, Clock, Curtains, Death, Digital Imagery, Empty, Game, Godot, Head, Life, Old, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Silence, Stillness, Ticking, Tired, Vistas, Waiting, Windows, Wonder | 1 Comment

OBLIVION

Posted on 15/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

~ Thomas Nagel ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of just a few of the many boxes taken in May 2005.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boxes, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Documents, Emotions, Energy, Forgotten, Grandparents, Hope, Indulgence, Life, Memories, Moments. Taste, Objects, Oblivion, Pages, Parents, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Time, Twilight, Young | 1 Comment

BANDORA’S POX

Posted on 06/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!

What a monster… what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”

~ Blaise Pascal ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Caskets, Confusion, Creativity, Death, Deathsong, Debate, Digital Imagery, Flame, Horizon, Illusion, Innuendo, Lanes, Life, Perspective, Persuasion, Photography, Pigskin, Poetry, Pox, Promise, Rhetoric, Seas, Songs, Water, Waves, Wood, Worm, Zodiac | 1 Comment

IN AN INSTANT

Posted on 21/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“The universe is bringing our dreams to life, but unfortunately,

it is also bringing our nightmares that little bit closer as well.”

~ Anthony T. Hincks ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Bone Dust, Charnel House, Circumstances, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hopes, Instant, Life, Norms, Nothingness, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potential, Promise, Roles, Sentience, Shadows, Smoke, Tinder | 1 Comment

WOMAN

Posted on 08/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“You had the power all along my dear.”

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acumen, Affection, Ardour, Beauty, Cold, Compassion, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Drab, Emotions, Empathetic, Equals, Fair, Future, Gray, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Intelligence, Intuition, Just, Life, Love, Men, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Sensitivity, Sex, Sexuality, Sin, Sincerity, Subjugation, Violence, Woman, Women | 1 Comment

MEDUSA

Posted on 19/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”

~ Mason Cooley ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a painting taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Hate, Head, Hiss, Lips, Medusa, Memories, Minacious, Mirror, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Satyr, Sensuality, Serpents, Sex, Shadows, Slobber, Smile, Snakes, Stone, Thigh, Vitriol | 1 Comment

MOON OVER ME

Posted on 17/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beds, Betrays, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Emptiness, Face, Fat, Friend, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Mistake, Moon, Night, Nothing, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Punctual, Room, Shadows, Sheets, Sincerity, Streets, Time, True, Window | 1 Comment

SACRIFICED

Posted on 31/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw

on a bank where they have no account.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from three original photos taken between May and July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altar, Darkness, Death, Despondency, Digital Imagery, Flame, Future, Gloom, Hope, Life, Light, Memories, Months, Pain, Past, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Sacrifice, Shadows, Slaughter, Time, Year | 1 Comment

THE KEY TO MY HEART

Posted on 17/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.”

~ Sarah Dessen ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Difference, Digital Imagery, Forget, Heart, Hope, Key, Life, Love, Paris, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Remember, Time, Vanish | 1 Comment

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN

Posted on 01/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm,

a dancer’s leap in the air quite as high

as one has been expecting.”

~ Marcel Proust ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Circumstance, Desire, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Eyes, Face, Forests, Forgiving, France, Heart, Hills, Hint, Hotels, Life, Longing, Love, Meadows, Memory, Musician, Passion, Pespect, Photography, Poetry, Praise, Promise, Provinces, Rehearsals, Venues, Wonder, Woods | 1 Comment

REFLECTIONS BLENDING

Posted on 11/08/2019 by Nightpoet

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

~ Elias Canetti ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Hallucinations, Hazards, Inspiration, Life, Memories, Murdered, Muse, Nightmares, Obstacles, Paris, Party, Passion, Past, Phantasms, Photography, Phrases, Poetry, Promise, Purgatory, Time, Visions | 1 Comment

HOW MANY HANDS

Posted on 15/07/2019 by Nightpoet

“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

~ Charles Spurgeon ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ardour, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, Doorknob, Emotions, Forbearance, Grace, Hands, Heart, Hope, Key, Life, Love, Memories, Old, Paris, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Promise, Sensuous, Shadows, Sin, Tattered, Time, Torn, Understanding, Weathered, Worn | 1 Comment

CES VIEILLES MAINS

Posted on 29/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

~ William S. Burroughs ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Goodbyes, Grasp, Hands, Jungles, Kindness, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Palms, Passion, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Promise, Scarred, Thorns, Time, Worn, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

INFORMAL ATTIRE

Posted on 05/01/2019 by Nightpoet

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Desire, Digital Imagery, Empty, Informal Attire, Libido, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Promise | 1 Comment

FOOL’S GOLD

Posted on 29/12/2018 by Nightpoet

“…the number of children and adults tortured

in the name of mainstream religious

and racial orthodoxy outweighs any others.”

~ Valerie Sinason ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bamboozle, Blind, Blind Belief, Bluff, Brainwash, Bullshit, Charlatans, Clueless, Con Men, Death, Deity, Digital Imagery, Divinity, Fool's Gold, God, Ignorance, Life, Minions, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Religion, Sheep, Shyster | 1 Comment

WINTERTIDE SOLSTICE

Posted on 21/12/2018 by Nightpoet

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”

~ Hal Borland ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Full Moon, Horizon, Night, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Seasons, Shadows, Skies, Solstice, Spring, Time, Winter, Wintertide, Words | 3 Comments

LA MUSE

Posted on 11/10/2018 by Nightpoet

“Fool,” said my muse to me.

“Look in thy heart and write.”

~ Philip Sidney ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Cocoon, Consciousness, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Inspiration, Life, Love, Muse, Music, Night, Ouevres, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Shadows, Songs, Source, Thoughts, Wellspring, Words | 1 Comment

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

UN VIE VOLÉE

Posted on 02/08/2018 by Nightpoet

“What I want from life

is not always what life wants from me.”

~ Anonymous ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Death, Digital Imagery, Finesse, Future, Grace, Heart, Intelligence, Life, Love, Paris, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Potential, Promise, Purity, Savoir Faire, Self-Destruction, Street Art, Talent, Wisdom | 1 Comment

DREAMSTONE

Posted on 21/06/2018 by Nightpoet

“Once I blazed across the sky,

Leaving trails of flame;

I fell to earth, and here I lie –

Who’ll help me up again?”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a chondrite meteorite taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ambience, Atmosphere, Chondrite, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Dreamstone, Emptiness, Energy, Fingertips, Fire, Meteorites, Nothingness, Oblivion, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Promise | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Promise

“To me, words are primarily things to do with your mouth.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!

What a monster… what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The universe is bringing our dreams to life, but unfortunately,

it is also bringing our nightmares that little bit closer as well.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You had the power all along my dear.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw

on a bank where they have no account.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm,

a dancer’s leap in the air quite as high

as one has been expecting.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…the number of children and adults tortured

in the name of mainstream religious

and racial orthodoxy outweighs any others.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Fool,” said my muse to me.

“Look in thy heart and write.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A rational army would run away.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What I want from life

is not always what life wants from me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Once I blazed across the sky,

Leaving trails of flame;

I fell to earth, and here I lie –

Who’ll help me up again?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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