Posts Tagged With: Sleep

BATS

Posted on 25/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“The colour of my soul is iron-grey

and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

~ Claude Debussy ~

000 bats

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of stenciled street art taken in Paris in May 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bats, Daylight, Digital Imagery, Hours, Musicians, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Playing, Poetry, Sleep | 1 Comment

THE DISTANCE OF MYTH

Posted on 28/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken from the summit of one of the Peaks Of Otter in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the summer of 1977.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Distance, Dreams, Emotions, Faces, Gravity, Life, Love, Moons, Mountains, Myth, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puzzle, Roads, Sheets, Sleep, Stained, Stars, Starstuff, Time, Traces, Valleys, Words | 1 Comment

SANS SCRIPT

Posted on 26/05/2021 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 April 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cinema, Confusion, Consciousness, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Hallucinogenic, Images, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Script, Sleep, Subliminal, Surrealism, Whirlwind | 2 Comments

TERPSICHORE

Posted on 17/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

~ Corinna ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Crete in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dance, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eyes, Goat-Footed, Kisses, Life, Long, Moon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sappho, Sleep, Star, Terpsichore, Water | 3 Comments

ROSY CRUCIFIXIONS

Posted on 03/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“My life was one long rosy crucifixion.”

~ Henry Miller ~

Digitally enhanced image created in February 2002.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beast With Two Backs, Bedsprings, Belly, Black Dog, Blood, Certainty, Cleavage, Colander, Crucifixion, Digital Imagery, Dirge, Dreaming, Eye, Hiss, Landscape, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Semen, Sleep, Tear, Virgin, Visions | 1 Comment

THIS ONE SIDE OF SLUMBER

Posted on 31/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

~ Friedrich Schiller ~

Digitally enhanced image created in March 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Give, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, River, Secrets, Skin, Sleep, Slumber, Smile, Smoke, Thatch, Thunder | 1 Comment

SLEEP

Posted on 21/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Bristol, England in June 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breathing, Death, Digital Imagery, Forever, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sleep, Time | 1 Comment

O HOW

Posted on 13/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

~ James Dean ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Breathing, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreaming, Earth, Ladder, Lungs, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sleep, Steps | 1 Comment

A YEAR OF RAIN

Posted on 11/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

~ John Steinbeck

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at a Roman burial excavation in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Dancing, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Earth, Graves, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Sleep, Water, Year | 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

UNREALITY

Posted on 22/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“I like the unreality of your mind;

the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awake, Circles, Confusion, Corridor, Digital Imagery, Door, Dreams, Dreamtime, Eyes, Frustrations, Imagination, Joys, Paris, Perception, Perspective, Phantasmagoria, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Resurrected, Sleep, Spiral, Street Art, Subconsciousness, Time, Unreality | 1 Comment

WHAT IT COST ME

Posted on 21/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

~ Janet Todd ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barrows, Book, Calm, Cost, Digital Imagery, Feet, Fingers, Lost, Mounds, Nectar, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pore, Quiet, Rainbow, Ribbons, Sedate, Sheets, Sighs, Sin, Sleep, Sound, Tongue, Triangles, Valley, Warm, Web | 1 Comment

IN ALL THE SILENCE THAT IS SLEEP

Posted on 06/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“Silence is the speech of love.”

~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dancing, Death, Deepness, Digital Imagery, Disks, Dream, Faces, Fluctuation, Insanity, Memories, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Places, Poetry, Real, Shadows, Silence, Sleep, Terpsichore | 1 Comment

ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE

Posted on 03/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,
Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,
Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,
The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.”

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~

Digitally enhanced image created in November 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balled, Beauty, Breasts, Cheek, Digital Imagery, Morning, Mouth, Nipples, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Roses, Sheets, Sleep, Summer | 1 Comment

THAT ONCE CAST HER SHADOW

Posted on 31/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

~ Jack Lemmon ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the excavation of a Roman cremation burial taken in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Body, Bones, Cinders, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreamtime, Embers, Journey, Oblivion, Offerings, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pyre, Shadow, Sleep, Underworld, Urn | 1 Comment

GREENWORDS

Posted on 22/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dice, Digital Imagery, Life, Lines, Onomatopoeia, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhymes, Root, Shadows, Sleep, Soil, Soul, Vines, Words | 1 Comment

THE PRICE PAID

Posted on 16/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Every luxury must be paid for,

and everything is a luxury,

starting with being in this world.”

~ Cesare Pavese ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blue, Brown, Coffee Grounds, Digital Imagery, Freedom, Knees, Morning, Music, Paris, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Price, Reality, Room, Sleep, Steam, Streets, Treaties, Warm | 1 Comment

TELL ME

Posted on 15/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Hatred is something peculiar.

You will always find it strongest and most violent

where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bigotry, Christianity, Compassion, Contrived, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dunning-Kruger, Empathy, Fascist, Gays, Guns, Hate, Honesty, Hunger, Immigrants, Intelligence, Libido, Lust, Mentality, Minorities, Night, Paris, Passion, Penis, Perspective, Perversion, Phony Patriotism, Photography, Pillow, Pistol, Poetry, Posturing, Premature Ejaculation, Pussy, Self-Aggrandizement, Shadows, Sleep, Violence, Wet Dreams | 1 Comment

ONE NIGHTMORE

Posted on 07/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“If songs were lines in a conversation,

the situation would be fine…”

~ Nick Drake ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barren, Bedlands, Blend, Bowl, Corners, Counterpoint, Delirium, Digital Imagery, Dimensions, Divisions, Dream, Electricity, Essence, Groggy, Harmony, Life, Love, Magic, Memories, Music, Mystery, Night, Past, Perform, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polyphony, Scenario, Sensual, Shapes, Sing, Sizes, Sleep, Symphonic, Troubadours, Unborn, Unshaven, Unshorn, Visions | 1 Comment

THUMPER

Posted on 27/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Enhanced image developed from a digital painting created in Spring 2000.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bait, Beauty, Bones, Breasts, Cheeks, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dream, Emotions, Fishing, Gasping, Gills, Hands, Kisses, Lean, Light, Limbs, Lines, Love, Lungs, Moon, Moonlight, Night, Nipples, Opiate, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Ribs, Sex, Sigh, Skin, Sleep, Squirm, Time, Touch, Worm | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Sleep

“The colour of my soul is iron-grey

and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“My life was one long rosy crucifixion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

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:

“I like the unreality of your mind;

the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Passion pursues; love surrenders.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Silence is the speech of love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest,Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast,Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air,The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every luxury must be paid for,

and everything is a luxury,

starting with being in this world.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Hatred is something peculiar.

You will always find it strongest and most violent

where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If songs were lines in a conversation,

the situation would be fine…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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The soul of her beauty and love lay bare.”