Posts Tagged With: Reality

music

Posted on 01/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“The only truth is music.”

~ Jack Kerouac ~

000 music

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Agitate, Beauty, Creation, Digital Imagery, Dream, Energize, Language, Life, Negative, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Positive, Reality, Sooth, Soul, Spirit, Stimulate | 1 Comment

en vin est vérité

Posted on 10/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

000 en vin est vérité 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Change, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fata Morgana, Glass, Heart, Illusion, Life, Mind, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Secrets, Shadows, Tongue, Truth, Universal Truth, Unreality, Wine | 1 Comment

through the looking glass

Posted on 25/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as

six impossible things before breakfast.”

~ Lewis Carroll ~

000 through the looking glass 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alice, Digital Imagery, Distortions, Inaccuracies, Looking Glass, Mirror, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Truth | 1 Comment

HALCYON

Posted on 22/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

EN VIN EST VÉRITÉ

Posted on 14/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

~Gustave Flaubert ~

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

TWENTY FOUR SEVEN

Posted on 08/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“The average Smartphone user checks

his or her device every six and a half minutes.”

~ Anonymous ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Addiction, Brain Dead, Communication, Digital Imagery, Display, Instant Gratification, Mobile Phone, Nomophobia, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Selfie, Smartphone, Street Art, Stupidity | 1 Comment

THE PROMISE OF A BLOSSOM

Posted on 19/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling.

Beneath the surface, lies terror.”

~ Thomas Pynchon ~

000 the promise of a blossom

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blossom, Digital Imagery, Life, Lily Pad, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reality, Roots, Water Lily | 3 Comments

PIGMENTS OF MY IMAGINATION

Posted on 15/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

~ Marianne Moore ~

000 pigments of my imagination 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Colours, Consciousness, Digital Imagery, Erotic, Existence, Exotic, Imagination, Normal, Palette, Perspective, Perverse, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Reality, Unique, Weird | 1 Comment

FLESH AND BONE

Posted on 12/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth;

and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a X-ray created by RZFW in February 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belief, Bone, Celestial, Colours, Consciousness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eternal, Fabric, Flesh, Hope, Life, Memories, Mortal Coil, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Self-Awareness, Spiritual, Time | 1 Comment

WASTED OPPORTUNITY

Posted on 07/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“…people choose to live in darkness, praying for a candle,

when all they really have to do is open their eyes…”

~ nightpoet ~

000 wasted opportunity 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a skull from a burial dated to the Late Roman Empire (3rd century CE) taken in June 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Astronomy, Awareness, Bone, Death, Digital Imagery, History, Life, Opportunity, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Science, Skin, Skull, Stars, Universe, Wasted Time | 1 Comment

TITBIDS

Posted on 18/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dish, Ether, Eyes, Flames, Grammar, Greasepaint, Hair, Knots, Novae, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Reality, Salad, Spoon, Stammer, Tea, Weasels, Words | 1 Comment

TOKEN

Posted on 28/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books…”

~ Mary Augusta Ward ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awaken, Believed, Broken, Conceived, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fantasy, Festivity, Grammar, Gypsy, Life, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Seventeen, Sin, Smoke, Street Art, Token | 1 Comment

UP TO OUR ASHES

Posted on 30/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Love. Of course, love.

Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

~ Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Burn, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Doldrums, Duality, Emotions, Fire, Life, Love, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Ride, Riverside, Time, Toasted, Turns, Twists, Wife | 1 Comment

READ THEM THEIR RIGHTS

Posted on 19/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,

and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by C+S taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bedded, Books, Digital Imagery, Finality, Fools, Incoherent, Jewels, Life, Night, Old, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Read, Reality, Rights, Rules, Sauce, Smile, Sounds, Spools, Street Art, Style | 1 Comment

THE PRICE PAID

Posted on 16/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Every luxury must be paid for,

and everything is a luxury,

starting with being in this world.”

~ Cesare Pavese ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blue, Brown, Coffee Grounds, Digital Imagery, Freedom, Knees, Morning, Music, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Price, Reality, Room, Sleep, Steam, Streets, Treaties, Warm | 1 Comment

A NEW ABNORMAL

Posted on 31/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“The abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”

~ H.P. Lovecraft ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary island of La Gomera in 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abnormal, Breath, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Human Race, Life, Old World, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Sanity, Shadows, Shroud, Sleep, Time | 1 Comment

HILDA AND HUBERT

Posted on 25/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“If you’re going to do something tonight that

you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”

~ Henny Youngman ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bedroom Eyes, Cigarettes, Coffee, Consciousness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Focus, Life, Love, Memories, Morning After, Night, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Ribs, Sex, Snore, Weight | 1 Comment

HALCYON

Posted on 16/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

SHARDS OF LIGHT

Posted on 30/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“A million candles burning for the love that never came,

you want it darker, we kill the flame…”

~ Leonard Cohen ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apathy, Books, Candles, Creativity, Darkness, Desolation, Enlightenment, Harbinger, Human, Ignorance, Imagination, Ink, Life, Lifeblood, Light, Lines, Love, Luminosity, Memories, Mirror, Night, Parchment, Paris, Passion, Past, Patience, Photography, Poetry, Read, Reality, Seeds, Shards, Street Art, Time, Wilderness | 1 Comment

STARSLEEP

Posted on 26/09/2019 by Nightpoet

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Extinction, Future, Greed, Human Folly, Imagination, Inheritance, Life, Night, Nothing, Paradox, Past, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Science, Shadows, Sleep, Stars, Time, Universe, Wasteland | 2 Comments

Posts Tagged With: Reality

“The only truth is music.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as

six impossible things before breakfast.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The average Smartphone user checks

his or her device every six and a half minutes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A pneumatic toy frog hops onto a lily pad, trembling.

Beneath the surface, lies terror.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth;

and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…people choose to live in darkness, praying for a candle,

when all they really have to do is open their eyes…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Love. Of course, love.

Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,

and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every luxury must be paid for,

and everything is a luxury,

starting with being in this world.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If you’re going to do something tonight that

you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A million candles burning for the love that never came,

you want it darker, we kill the flame…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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