Posts Tagged With: Shadows

IN THE FLICKERING LIGHT

Posted on 16/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how

people were depicted inside nature, not outside it.

It was a kind of dream time…”

~ Gregory Colbert ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Art, Artist, Belief, Cave Art, Cave Paintings, Caves, Dreams, Emotions, History, Mushrooms, Painting, Perception, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spirits, Superstition | 1 Comment

LES RIDEAUX

Posted on 11/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,

and say what thou seest yond.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Actions, Change, Curtains, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fallacies, Fantasy, Fate, In-Between, Les Rideaux, Life, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Portières, Prisoners, Security, Shadows, Weaknesses, Words | 1 Comment

SLICES

Posted on 29/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“I am not interested in a slice of life,

what I want is a slice of the imagination.”

~ Carlos Fuentes ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Elixir, Feel, Future, Learn, Life, Listen, Love, Memories, Music, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Slices, Song, Time, Touch | 2 Comments

LA NUIT NOIRE

Posted on 24/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Tomorrow night is nothing

but one long sleepless wrestle

with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.”

~ William Faulkner ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Cobbled, Digital Imagery, Gutters, Lanes, Night, Nightmares, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows | 1 Comment

HER BRIGHT EMBRACE

Posted on 22/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

~ Karl Marx ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on September 21, 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Change, Death, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Face, Life, Lines, Memories, Moon, Moonlight, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Strange, Twilight, Walls | 1 Comment

THE PAINTER

Posted on 10/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Painting is silent poetry.”

~ Plutarch ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Black, Canvas, Colours, Creativity, Day, Digital Imagery, Gray, Hues, Life, Light, Night, Painting, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spectrum, Street Art, White | 1 Comment

WATCHING THE TREES DANCE

Posted on 08/08/2021 by Nightpoet

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower,

hold infinity in the palm of your hand, an eternity in an hour.”

~ William Blake ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in May 1981 .

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Childhood, Curiosity, Dance, Digital Imagery, Evening, Fouras, France, Innocence, Life, Lips, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Terpsichore, Time, Trees, Truth, Water | 1 Comment

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

Posts Tagged With: Shadows

“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how

people were depicted inside nature, not outside it.

It was a kind of dream time…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,

and say what thou seest yond.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I am not interested in a slice of life,

what I want is a slice of the imagination.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Tomorrow night is nothing

but one long sleepless wrestle

with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Painting is silent poetry.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower,

hold infinity in the palm of your hand, an eternity in an hour.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“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:

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