Posts Tagged With: Shadow

awakening

Posted on 18/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Without change, something sleeps inside us,

and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

~ Frank Herbert ~

000 awakening

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dancing, Desire, Digital Imagery, Distance, Echo, Found, Hope, Horizon, Life, Lost, Luminosity, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resurrection, Shadow, Silence, Sleep, Time, Want, Willingness, Words | 1 Comment

isolation

Posted on 13/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other

across seas of misunderstanding.”

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

000 isolation 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banshee, Darkness, Depression, Desperation, Digital Imagery, Isolation, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shade, Shadow | 1 Comment

catshadow

Posted on 19/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“At night all cats are grey.”

~ French proverb ~

000 catshadow

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Back, Bristled, Cat, Clawed, Comfort, Corners, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Familiarity, Life, Night, Padded, Paws, Perception, Perfection, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Silence, Street, Twisted, Whisker | 1 Comment

l’ombre de la mort

Posted on 15/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

~ Thomas Browne ~

000 l’ombre de la mort 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Companion, Conception, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fate, Future, Hourglass, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Time | 3 Comments

mare nostrum

Posted on 13/11/2022 by Nightpoet

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

~ Sappho ~

000 mare nostrum 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Evening, Eyes, Iambic, Lesbos, Light, Mare Nostrum, Moon, Perspective, Philosophers, Photography, Poetry, Poets, Sappho, Shadow, Ulysses, Walls | 1 Comment

blood moon

Posted on 06/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone.”

~ Tom Waits ~

000 blood moon 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an eclipse taken in March 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ancients, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Earth, Fools, Full Moon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Superstition | 1 Comment

life’s blood

Posted on 23/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

~ Alison Prince ~

000 life's blood

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Air, Alive, Blood, Chaos, Consequences, Creativity, Darkness, Death, Desires, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hate, Heart, High Tide, Imagination, Inhumanity, Inspiration, Life, Love, Old Age, Old Man, Page, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Shadow, Slings And Arrows, Time, Vibrant, Violence, War | 1 Comment

give and take

Posted on 29/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”

~ George Eliot ~

000 give and take 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art in Paris taken in August 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Day, Digital Imagery, Down, Fire, Give And Take, Happy, Hard, Ice, Life, Light, Love, Minus, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plus, Poetry, Sad, Shadow, Soft, Sour, Street Art, Sweet, Up, White | 1 Comment

shadowdancer

Posted on 17/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“Normal is an illusion.

What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

~ Charles Addams ~

000 shadowdancer

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breakfast, Dancing, Death, Digital Imagery, Leaf, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Silence, Spider, Venation, Web | 1 Comment

film noir

Posted on 02/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

~ Raymond Chandler ~

000 film noir

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Claws, Cobblestones, Death, Digital Imagery, Door, Film Noir, Leaves, Life, Light, Madness, Midnight, Nightmare, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reaper, Shadow, Windows | 1 Comment

UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

Posted on 27/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Comprehension, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evaporate, Existence, Future, Imagination, Life, Memories, Moments, Mosaic, Nothing, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pompeii, Regurgitated, Remembrance, Shadow, Silence, Time, Undigested, Untasted | 1 Comment

TODAY WE SHINE

Posted on 28/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on;

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bees, Blossom, Death, Digital Imagery, Fade, Forgotten, Insects, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Shine, Summer, Sustenance, Ugliness, Uncertainty | 1 Comment

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BETWEEN

Posted on 15/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”

~ Peter Sinfield ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cesspool, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Fairness, Greed, Justice, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Safety, Scales, Shadow, Slaughter, Whisper, Wind | 1 Comment

POÈTE MAUDIT

Posted on 10/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“What can an eternity of damnation matter

to someone who has felt, if only for a second,

the infinity of delight?”

~ Charles Baudelaire ~

000 poète maudit

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in February 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Accursed, Convention, Death, Debauchery, Decadence, Digital Imagery, Disdain, Excess, Indulgence, Life, Love, Mean-Spirited, Norm, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poète Maudit, Poet, Poetry, Shadow, Straight And Narrow | 1 Comment

THE RED ROOM

Posted on 04/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”

~ Emile M. Cioran ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abstract, Aksak Maboul, Amazement, Art Zoyd, Cadeau, Coda, Consciousness, Dada, Digital Imagery, Dissonant, Henry Cow, Hourglass, Lamp, Man Ray, Melodic, Music, Nothingness, Old Man, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Red, Resonance, Room, Sanctuary, Seclusion, Shadow, Shadows, Solitude, Speakers, Time, Turntable, Univers Zero | 1 Comment

ONE LONG LAST LOOK

Posted on 05/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

~ Donna Tartt ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balcony, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Forever, Gone, Haze, Horizon, Look, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Ship, Sun, Tears, Water | 1 Comment

THAT ONCE CAST HER SHADOW

Posted on 31/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

~ Jack Lemmon ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the excavation of a Roman cremation burial taken in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Body, Bones, Cinders, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreamtime, Embers, Journey, Oblivion, Offerings, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pyre, Shadow, Sleep, Underworld, Urn | 1 Comment

ECCENTRIC

Posted on 18/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.”

~ Ellen Terry ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canvases, Compass, Concentric, Digital Imagery, Eccentric, Electric, Energy, Eyes, Fakir, Fashion, Feet, Fragments, Gadgets, Glamour, House, Imagination, Life, Magnets, Mouth, North, Perspective, Photography, Plump, Plurality, Poetry, Shadow, Snails, South, Street Art, Teeth, Terrain, Turtle | 1 Comment

UNE MOSAÏQUE DE TEMPS

Posted on 21/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo (detail) of a Roman mosaic floor in Pompeii taken in 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Comprehension, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evaporate, Existence, Future, Imagination, Life, Memories, Moments, Mosaic, Nothing, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Regurgitated, Remembrance, Shadow, Silence, Time, Undigested, Untasted | 1 Comment

L’OMBRE DE LA MORT

Posted on 26/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

~ Thomas Browne ~

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

Posts Tagged With: Shadow

“Without change, something sleeps inside us,

and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We’re all islands shouting lies to each other

across seas of misunderstanding.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“At night all cats are grey.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life itself is but the shadow of death,

and souls departed but the shadows of the living.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The moon was sharp enough to draw blood from a stone.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Normal is an illusion.

What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It probably started in poetry; almost everything does.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on;

and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What can an eternity of damnation matter

to someone who has felt, if only for a second,

the infinity of delight?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Before you can be eccentric, you must know where the circle is.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Madness conquers,

I can no longer put my mosaics together,

I just cry and laugh.”

SPREAD THE WORD: