Posts Tagged With: Shadows

TRAPPED

Posted on 17/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“If one has never known freedom,

it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one’s cell.”

~ Nenia Campbell ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blind Belief, Digital Imagery, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Shadows, Sunlight, Trapped | 1 Comment

THE FABRIC OF OUR SOULS

Posted on 19/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

~ Charles Ives ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1983.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Branches, Breath, Dance, Digital Imagery, Fabric, Hearts, Hunger, Leaves, Mist, Mood, Moths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Silence, Souls, Trees, Weather, Winter | 1 Comment

SERIOUS MOONLIGHT

Posted on 02/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight…”

~ David Bowie ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bone, Branches, Carpet, Corners, Darkness, Demons, Depression, Devils, Digital Imagery, Fool, Full Moon, Isolation, Killing Floor, Monsters, Moon, Moonlight, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Unholy, Window | 1 Comment

FULL FAT MOON

Posted on 10/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.”

~ Frederic Lawrence Knowles ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beggars, Cow, Digital Imagery, Dish, Eyes, Fat, Full Moon, Moon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spoon | 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

BEDSIDE WIT

Posted on 30/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bedside, Blind, Bones, Breasts, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Face, Guilt, Jester, Judge, Jury, Justice, Lines, Magic, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Thighs, Tones, Wit | 1 Comment

FROM THE STARS STRUNG

Posted on 27/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Age does not protect you from love.

But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1985.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barrows, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Love, Nipples, Ocean, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, River, Shadows, Sighs, Stars, Thighs, Valley, Youth | 1 Comment

DUSTED WITH STARS

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”

~ Neil Gaiman ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma, the Canary Islands, in November 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banana Trees, Carpet, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Eyes, La Palma, Light, Moon, Palm Tree, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stars, Valley | 1 Comment

OUT THERE

Posted on 15/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“We long to return to normal, but normal led to this…”

~ Ed Yong ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Breath, Contact, Dangerous, Dark, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Gloves, Isolation, Madness, Mask, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Safe, Shadows, Street | 1 Comment

SITTING IN SILENCE

Posted on 22/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love:

one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.”

~ Cesare Pavese ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a self-portrait taken in August 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Colours, Digital Imagery, Goddesses, Gods, Gray, Language, Letters, Life, Light, Lines, Notation, Odds, Perspective, Photography, Pigment, Poetry, Prisms, Punctuation, Sacrifice, Shadows, Sight, Silence, Visions, Words | 1 Comment

DARK CORNERS

Posted on 15/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“The bright dawn flooded the room,

and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners,

where they lay shuddering.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bottle, Chambers, Corners, Dark, Days, Death, Digits, Dripping, Dry, Dungeons, Empty, Memory, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrance, Roses, Shadows, Throat | 1 Comment

JUST BEGINNING

Posted on 14/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“The end of laughter and soft lies,

the end of nights we tried to die,

this is the end.”

~ Jim Morrison ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Les grottes de Cougnac in France in June 2006.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Back, Beginning, Breath, Clouds, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Echoes, Hallucination, Night, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shadows, Sky, Sleep, Stones, Streets | 1 Comment

MINUTES MEASURED

Posted on 15/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Time needs another minute.”

~ Sly Stone ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cigarettes, Circles, Conversation, Corner, Dancing, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Lips, Measured, Minutes, Passionate, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Romancing, Shadows | 1 Comment

PORTRAIT

Posted on 09/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling

is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digital painting created in November 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acrylics, Artist, Colours, Digital Imagery, Easel, Evil, Eyes, Feeling, Hated, Heart, Hostility, Lies, Loathing, Oils, Painting, Palette, Perspective, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Portrait, Revenge, Shadows, Sinister, Vitriol, Warmth | 1 Comment

IN ALL THE SILENCE THAT IS SLEEP

Posted on 06/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Silence is the speech of love.”

~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dancing, Death, Deepness, Digital Imagery, Disks, Dream, Faces, Fluctuation, Insanity, Memories, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Places, Poetry, Real, Shadows, Silence, Sleep, Terpsichore | 1 Comment

GARGOYLE SANS CATHEDRAL

Posted on 02/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a gargoyle on one of the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral taken in Paris in July 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cathedral, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Electric, Gargoyles, Grotesque, Haunches, Morning, Notre Dame, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Still Born | 1 Comment

SHINY BLACK ADJECTIVES

Posted on 01/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adjectives, Alley, Asphalt, Cobbles, Confidence, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emptiness, Movement, Mystery, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Shadows, Sihlouettes, Street, Symphony, Syntax, Verbs | 1 Comment

INTO RAGE

Posted on 27/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement

inside our own skins, for life.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Armoire, Autumn, Boils, Days, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dust, Gray, Ideas, Isolation, Light, Music, Page, Pen, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rage, Shadows, Songs, Time, Window, Winds, Winter | 1 Comment

INCUBUS

Posted on 20/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Sex ages us. Priests are boyish,

spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty.

We others, the demon rots us out.”

~ John Updike ~

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bedroom, Breathe, Darkness, Demon, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Incubus, Night, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quiver, Shadows, Sheets, Sparkle | 1 Comment

THIS DAY THAT WASN’T

Posted on 06/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

~ Suzanne Collins ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Day, Digital Imagery, Forget, Life, Page, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shadows, Sky, Streets, Sweat, Wet | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Shadows

“If one has never known freedom,

it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one’s cell.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Let’s sway under the moonlight, this serious moonlight…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Age does not protect you from love.

But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We long to return to normal, but normal led to this…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Remember, writing poetry is like making love:

one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The bright dawn flooded the room,

and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners,

where they lay shuddering.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The end of laughter and soft lies,

the end of nights we tried to die,

this is the end.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Time needs another minute.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling

is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Silence is the speech of love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement

inside our own skins, for life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sex ages us. Priests are boyish,

spinsters stay black-haired until after fifty.

We others, the demon rots us out.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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