Posts Tagged With: Reality

que sais-je?

Posted on 04/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

~ René Descartes ~

000 que sais-je? 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris, taken in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chance, Circumstance, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Galaxies, Gentle, Heart, Heaven, Hell, History, Humanity, Kindness, Knowledge, Life, Love, Meaning, Michel de Montaigne, Paradox, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purpose, Reality, René Descartes, Spirit, Think, Universe | 2 Comments

a new abnormal

Posted on 10/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“Living is abnormal.”

~ Eugene Ionesco ~

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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

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 ~

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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 ~

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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 ~

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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.

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

Posts Tagged With: Reality

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“Living is abnormal.”

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“The only truth is music.”

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

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“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as

six impossible things before breakfast.”

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“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

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

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“The average Smartphone user checks

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

Beneath the surface, lies terror.”

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

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“We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth;

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

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

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

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

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

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“Love. Of course, love.

Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

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“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool,

and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

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“Every luxury must be paid for,

and everything is a luxury,

starting with being in this world.”

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

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“If you’re going to do something tonight that

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

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“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

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