Posts Tagged With: Shadows

like mushrooms

Posted on 26/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“There are poisons that blind you,

and poisons that open your eyes.”

~ August Strindberg ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Experience, Mushrooms, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poisons, Shadows, Truth | 5 Comments

la nuit noir

Posted on 14/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Tomorrow night is nothing but

one long sleepless wrestle

with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.”

~ William Faulkner ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Cobbled, Digital Imagery, Gutters, Lanes, Night, Nightmares, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows | 3 Comments

double vision

Posted on 13/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool,

a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

~ Sholem Aleichem ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken Germany in September 2009.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belfry, Digital Imagery, Double Vision, Dreamlike, Lark's Tongue, Life, Perception, Perspective, Philtre, Photography, Plaster, Pleasure, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art, Truffle | 1 Comment

the painter

Posted on 07/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Painting is silent poetry.”

~ Plutarch ~

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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

the tenebrosity of dream

Posted on 26/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Body, Charlatans, Danger, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eyes, Gloom, Hours, Life, Light, Minutes, Morning, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychoanalysts, Shadows, Sleep, Soul, Surprise, Tenebrosity, Unconsciousness | 2 Comments

halcyon

Posted on 24/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

pépier

Posted on 19/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

~ Jacques Deval ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Birds, Birdsong, Branches, Cacophony, Chirp, Darkness, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Hibernation, Life, Light, Morning, Music, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purple, Seasons, Shadows, Song, Spring, Street Art, Symphony, Throats, Time, Trees, Trill, Twitter, Warble, Warmth | 1 Comment

ombres et lumière

Posted on 23/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”

~ Rumi ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Corpse, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Mercy, Ombres et Lumière, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sepulchre, Shadows, Stolen, Throat, War | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 10/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

dusted with stars

Posted on 01/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

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

~ Neil Gaiman ~

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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

shine a light

Posted on 28/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beacon, Brows, Burn, Candle, Clouds, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Effulgence, Flame, Gloaming, Glower, Lambency, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Radiance, Residue, Shadows, Shroud, Summer | 1 Comment

death and cobwebs

Posted on 25/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

~ Rajneesh ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Afterlife, Assholes, Bigotry, Charlatans, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Farce, Flag, Irrationality, Life, Memories, Mouths, Mystery, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophet, Relevance, Religion, Resurrection, Shadows, Throats, Time | 1 Comment

laughs in your face

Posted on 23/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

~ Jim Morrison

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Cheats, Clocks, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Equality, Equalizer, Face, Future, Laughs, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reaper, Shadows, Shiver, Smile, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

like the moon

Posted on 14/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

~ Gregory Maguire ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dark Side, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Labyrinth, Life, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art | 3 Comments

full blood wolf moon

Posted on 12/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.

The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Alternative Facts, Beauty, Blood Moon, Blood Wolf Moon, Cellphone, Cheeks, Crimson, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Frozen, Imagination, Life, Magic, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Serfdom, Shadows, Slavery, Stars, Unreality, Vermilion, Wonder | 1 Comment

the fabric of our souls

Posted on 03/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

~ Charles Ives ~

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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 31/12/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ David Bowie ~

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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

shiny black adjectives

Posted on 17/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ~

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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

this day that wasn’t

Posted on 15/12/2022 by Nightpoet

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

~ Suzanne Collins ~

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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

gray

Posted on 12/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“A gray day provides the best light.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Breezes, Colour, Darkness, Days, Digital Imagery, Gradients, Gravestone, Gray, Landscapes, Life, Mountains, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shadows, Summer, Time, Vistas, Wind, Windows | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Shadows

“There are poisons that blind you,

and poisons that open your eyes.”

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:

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool,

a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Painting is silent poetry.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“God loved the birds and invented trees.

Man loved the birds and invented cages.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

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:

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“When you bring the light into your dark house,

that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Five to one, baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.

The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

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:

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A gray day provides the best light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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