Posts Tagged With: Shadows

long hard cold dark lonely winter

Posted on 17/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Gray, Hope, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Winter | 1 Comment

dreams fading

Posted on 13/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who

can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees

the dawn before the rest of the world.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2009.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Butterflies, Candle, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Leaves, Memory, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleep, Wind, Wings | 1 Comment

SPOONED

Posted on 25/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.”

~ Matshona Dhliwayo ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Coffee, Colette, Crooned, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Expectations, Fade, Life, Man Ray, Memories, Noose, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spoon, Spooned, Stage, Strangle, Time, Vexations | 1 Comment

LIKE MUSHROOMS

Posted on 24/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“There are poisons that blind you,

and poisons that open your eyes.”

~ August Strindberg ~

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 | 1 Comment

THE DECEMBER DREAM

Posted on 22/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from a photo taken in October 2017, provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises. Used with permission.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Boat, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dolphins, Dream, Emotions, Fantasy, Hair, Heart, Legends, Life, Lips, Love, Memories, Moon, Mystery, Night, Ocean, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Shoreline, Time, Wind | 1 Comment

HEL

Posted on 21/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Dying is an art, like everything else.”

~ Sylvia Plath ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bishop, Cat-O'-Nine-Tails, Clams, Death, Digital Imagery, Fishknife, Fishwife, Flagellation, Flatulence, Frenzy, Life, Monks, Mussels, Nuns, Oysters, Paris, Penance, Penis, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ravens, Shadows, Souls, Whorehouse | 1 Comment

ROSES MORTES

Posted on 19/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,

just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Grave, Hopes, Leaves, Life, Love, Memories, Mourners, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Roses, Seasons, Shadows, Spring, Summer, Time, Trees, Voices | 1 Comment

CASTING SHADOWS

Posted on 16/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Comprehension, Death, Digital Imagery, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sunlight, Understanding, Universe | 1 Comment

DOUBLE VISION

Posted on 06/12/2021 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 ~

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

DARK COME THE DAYS

Posted on 03/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

~ Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019. Photo courtesy of W. Feger, used with permission.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altar, Awakening, Breathing, Darkness, Dawn, Days, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hunger, Labour, Life, Light, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Silence, Skin, Soul, Time, Whore | 1 Comment

ONE REAL STONED HEP CAT

Posted on 02/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“But every junkie’s like a settin’ sun.”

~ Neil Young ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Hep Cat, Jazz, Jiving, John Coltrane, Junk, Junkie, Life, Miles Davis, Music, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Shucking, Stoned, Street Art, Thelonious Monk, Trucking | 1 Comment

LUNACY

Posted on 23/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

~ Adelaide Crapsey ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cadence, Counterpoint, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dissonance, Emotions, Howl, Leash, Life, Love, Lunacy, Memories, Moon, Music, Notes, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polyphony, Pother, Shadows, Songs, Wilderness | 1 Comment

HALCYON

Posted on 22/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

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

CAMOUFLAGED

Posted on 21/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

000 camouflaged 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Autumn, Boulevards, Camouflage, Chill, Dampen, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dungeon, Fog, Future, Labyrinths, Landscape, Leaves, Life, Memories, Mystery, Old, Old Age, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rues, Shadows | 1 Comment

THE TENEBROSITY OF DREAM

Posted on 19/11/2021 by Nightpoet

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

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

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 | 1 Comment

THE ANGEL OF DEATH

Posted on 15/11/2021 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 Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Angel, Beauty, Breasts, Breath, Death, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Eyes, Hand, Heart, Heaven, Hell, Imagination, Kiss, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Nothingness, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soul, Time, Wings | 1 Comment

EN VIN EST VÉRITÉ

Posted on 14/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

~Gustave Flaubert ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Change, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fata Morgana, Glass, Heart, Illusion, Life, Mind, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Secrets, Shadows, Tongue, Truth, Universal Truth, Unreality, Wine | 1 Comment

PRIVATE HELL

Posted on 11/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

~ Seneca ~

000 private hell 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Ashes, Burning, Cards, Chance, Coal, Darkness, Dealer, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Hell, Ignorance, Intensity, Lies, Life, Looking Glass, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Piper, Poetry, Reflections, Shadows, Truth | 1 Comment

THE SAME

Posted on 10/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Don’t we all look up at the same stars?”

~ A.D. Posey ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Dance, Death, Delicate, Dervishes, Digital Imagery, Disguises, Fragile, Instant, Life, Opinions, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quick, Same, Shadows, Skin, Street Art, Thoughts, Time, Tip Toe | 1 Comment

STEP INTO THE DARKNESS

Posted on 09/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”

~ Meister Eckhart ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Black, Cave, Creativity, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Emotions, Imagination, Life, Light, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purity, Rituals, Shadows, Unknown, Verses | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Shadows

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who

can only find his way by moonlight,

and his punishment is that he sees

the dawn before the rest of the world.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are poisons that blind you,

and poisons that open your eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dying is an art, like everything else.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses,

just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”

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:

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“But every junkie’s like a settin’ sun.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The only sure camouflage was unpredictability.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Is it possible that existence is our exile

and nothingness our home?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There is no truth. There is only perception.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Don’t we all look up at the same stars?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is in the darkness that one finds the light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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