Posts Tagged With: Silence

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 ~

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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 ~

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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 ~

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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 ~

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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 ~

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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 ~

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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

THISTLES AND THORNS

Posted on 17/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

~ Rumi ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Song, Sublime, Thistles, Thorns | 1 Comment

THE MOVEMENT OF AIR

Posted on 06/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“A painter paints pictures on canvas.

But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

~ Leopold Stokowski ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Breath, Emotions, Images, Instrument, Life, Lungs, Magic, Music, Mystery, Notes, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reed, Silence, Sound, Valves | 1 Comment

TICK…TICK…TICK

Posted on 16/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.”

~ Dante Alighieri ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clocks, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Nothingness, Patience, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Seconds, Silence, Teeth, Ticking, Time | 1 Comment

FREE FALL FLOW

Posted on 26/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.”

~ William Hazlitt ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Fade, Flickers, Flow, Forever, Free Fall, Future, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Uncertainty, Waiting | 1 Comment

WHEN THE SKIES WERE SUDDENLY SILENT

Posted on 21/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”

~ Robert Fripp ~

000 when the skies were suddenly silent

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in August 1989.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Airplane, Birds, Cacophony, Commerce, Digital Imagery, Leaves, Life, Lullabies, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Silence, Skies, Songs, Turbines, Wind | 6 Comments

SANDS

Posted on 21/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breeze, Death, Digital Imagery, Echoes, Ether, Everything, Fade, Forever, Life, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Silence, Storm, Time, Voices, Void, Waves, Wind | 1 Comment

INTO THE SILENCE

Posted on 13/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”

~ Mary Oliver ~

000 into the silence

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Destination, Digital Imagery, Imagination, Life, Linger, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quietly, River, Silence, Source | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Silence

“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:

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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:

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;

and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A painter paints pictures on canvas.

But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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