Posts Tagged With: Silence

she

Posted on 27/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 she

Digitally enhanced and colourized image created from a photo taken by a friend in 1972.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Audacity, Consciousness, Creativity, Cusp, Digital Imagery, Distance, Ebony, Expressions, Honed, Imagination, Inspires, Intense, Language, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plunge, Poetry, Razor-Edged, Rivets, Sable, Salacious, Sensuous, Sentences, She, Silence, Starstuff, Tattoos, Tenaciousness, Vulvar, Whetted, Words | 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

the fabric of our souls

Posted on 03/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

~ Charles Ives ~

000 the fabric of our souls 1

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

the silence descends

Posted on 30/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

~ Wassily Kandinsky ~

000 the silence descends 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Blackness, Digital Imagery, Distance, Howl, Moon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Silence, Wolves | 1 Comment

skeletons

Posted on 23/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old,

Their beards of icicles and snow…”

~ Charles duc d’Orléans ~

000 skeletons 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 2002.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blanket, Crystal, Death, Digital Imagery, Forest, Ice, Meadows, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quietus, Resurrection, Shroud, Silence, Skeletons, Snow, Stillness, Trees, Winter | 1 Comment

gramophone

Posted on 02/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end

the milestones into headstones change,

neath every one a friend.”

~ James Russell Lowell ~

000 gramophone

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Au Revoir, Beard, Carrots, Child, Cucumbers, Death, Digital Imagery, Drowned, Echoes, Frigidity, Gramophone, Grandmother, Life, Lips, Love, Opera Glove, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Piano, Poetry, Room, Score, Screams, Silence, Silent Film, Slaughter, Sour Wine, Swaddled, Wide Eyed | 1 Comment

diving for pearls

Posted on 25/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“The drowning man is not troubled by the rain.”

~ Anonymous ~

000 diving for pearls 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bright, Calm, Death, Digital Imagery, Drowning, Ears, Edge, Embrace, Eyes, Light, Nothing, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Sings, Soft, Warm | 1 Comment

season of silence

Posted on 21/08/2022 by Nightpoet

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”

~ Haruki Murakami ~

000 season of silence 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 2002.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animosity, Carrion Crow, Cold, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Forgetfulness, Hapless, Helpless, Hopeless, Labyrinth, Laughter, Life, Loathing, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purgatory, Seasons, Shadows, Silence, Snow, Struggle, Summer, Survive, Time, Trust | 1 Comment

sing me a soft song of my childhood

Posted on 20/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

000 sing me a soft song of my childhood

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Childhood, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dungeon, Energy, Face, Freedom, Hands, Inspiration, Life, Love, Lullaby, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shroud, Silence, Solitude, Song, Spring, Summer, Veil, Withered, Wrinkled | 4 Comments

page three

Posted on 19/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

~ James Thurber ~

000 page three 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cheese, Cloak, Crotch, Digital Imagery, Egg, Eyes, Fantasies, Fingers, Invisibility, Invisible Ink, Life, Memories, Mind, Mineral, Mirror, Neck, Page, Perspective, Petticoat, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Silence, Sky, Smoke, Soundtrack, Time, Turntable, | Tags: Book | 1 Comment

nevereveragainland

Posted on 14/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,

more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

~ Roman Payne ~

000 nevereveragainland

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Lips, Love, Moist, Moments, Mouth, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Silence, Taste, Wine | 1 Comment

a place i called home

Posted on 22/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“There are places we fear, places we dream,

places whose exiles we became

and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

~Thomas Pynchon ~

000 a place i called home

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ambience, Atmosphere, Danced, Digital Imagery, Floor, Fluid, Ghosts, Home, Immersion, Life, Light, Lighting, Objects, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Place, Poetry, Pools, Secretions, Shadows, Silence, Sound, Street Art, Walls | 3 Comments

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

a face

Posted on 18/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“You use a glass mirror to see your face;

you use works of art to see your soul.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

000 a face 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Face, Feeling, Future, Life, Mouth, Name, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Street Art, Words | 1 Comment

mute

Posted on 30/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“I have no desires, save the desire to express myself

in defiance of all the world’s muteness.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

000 mute 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banter, Bare Bone, Barter, Corner, Digital Imagery, Dunce's Cap, Mumble Jumble, Mute, Occupied, Ossified, Ostracised, Perspective, Poetry, Silence, Talk | 1 Comment

silence

Posted on 23/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“The rest, is silence.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 silence 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Vézère Valley, France in June 2006.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cocoon, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Listening, Lullaby, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, See, Silence, Sing, Solitude, Tastes, Touches | 3 Comments

the great silence

Posted on 29/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

~ Markus Zusak ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Life, Love, Oblivion, Paris, Passion, Photography, Plea, Poetry, Shadows, Silence, Street Art, Time | 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

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

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

Posts Tagged With: Silence

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“At night all cats are grey.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old,

Their beards of icicles and snow…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“As life runs on, the road grows strange

with faces new – and near the end

the milestones into headstones change,

neath every one a friend.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The drowning man is not troubled by the rain.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge

of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“O, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,

more perfect than all that a man can invent.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are places we fear, places we dream,

places whose exiles we became

and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

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:

“You use a glass mirror to see your face;

you use works of art to see your soul.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have no desires, save the desire to express myself

in defiance of all the world’s muteness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The rest, is silence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

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:

“Night’s black Mantle covers all alike.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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