“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Posts Tagged With: Rubble
empires
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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the load
“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.”
~ Phillips Brooks ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beginning, Breathe, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Flavour, Horizon, Life, Load, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Second Chance, Struggle
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trümmer
“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;
but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”
~ Comte de Lautréamont ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2016.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cycle, Digital Imagery, Dust, Human Folly, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Ruins
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SEXUAL CHESS
“Time is a fluid condition which has no existence
except in the momentary avatars of individual people.
There is no such thing as was – only is.”
~ William Faulkner ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Borders, Breathing, Breaths, Cigarettes, Depths, Digital Imagery, Drinking, Drop, Fantasy, Fluid, Less, Life, Love, More, Nightmare, Pagodas, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quotas, Relationship, Rubble, Ruins, Sex, Sexual Chess, Stones, Teat, Trouble, Vessel
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EMPIRES
“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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PILES OF BONES
“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
~ Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in 1988.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air, Arrogance, Birds, Birdsong, Bones, Civilization, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Extinction, Future, Humans, Leaves, Legacy, Life, Narcissism, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Ruins, Shadows, Sky, Time, Water, Wind
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NO GOD
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anarchy, Ashes, Autumn, Avenues, Barbarism, Breath, Burned, Cadavers, Capitalism, Cathedral, Choke, Civilization, Contorted, Culture, Darkness, Death, Decency, Digital Imagery, Eat, Enlightenment, Food, Fools, God, Heart, Humanity, Ignorance, Leaves, Life, Money, No Future, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rags, Religion, Rich, Rubble, Shadows, Streets, Twisted, Virus
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THE END OF AN EMPIRE
“An intelligence that is not humane
is the most dangerous thing in the world .”
~ Ashley Montagu ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Avarice, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Empire, Future, History, Life, Machiavellianism, Opportunistic, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Rubble, Time, Winds
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LUFTSCHUTZRAUM
“A great war leaves the country with three armies –
an army of cripples, an army of mourners,
and an army of thieves.”
~ German Proverb ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Air Raid Shelter, Apocalypse, Bombers, Bombs, Corpses, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Entombed, Explosiions, Fire, Future, Germany, History, Inferno, Life, Luftschutzraum, Night, Past, Perspective, Photography, Rubble, Sirens, War
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L’HORIZON EST BEAU
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Paris, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
Tags: Beauty, Cage, Clouds, Contamination, Death, Deception, Digital Imagery, Filth, Horizon, Lies, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Street Art, Wall, Wasteland
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A WINDY DAY
“The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.“
~ Joan Didion ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the Rhine River in January 2018.
© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Clean Start, Clutter, Digital Imagery, Gusts, Litter, New Year, Oblivion, Old Year, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhine River, River, Rubble, Whitecaps, Wind
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TRÜMMER
“Anyway, maybe there weren’t any solutions.
Human society, corpses and rubble.
It never learned, it made the same
cretinous mistakes over and over,
trading short-term gain for long-term pain.”
Margaret Atwood
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in June 2016.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Human Folly, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Ruins
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