Posts Tagged With: Sleep

a new abnormal

Posted on 10/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“Living is abnormal.”

~ Eugene Ionesco ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary island of La Gomera in 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abnormal, Breath, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Future, Human Race, Life, Old World, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Sanity, Shadows, Shroud, Sleep, Time | 1 Comment

terpsichore

Posted on 29/04/2022 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 | 1 Comment

cobweb strange

Posted on 22/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bats, Beauty, Bleached, Bones, Chamber, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Energy, Grit, Heavens, Life, Memories, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Persona, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleep, Spirits, Time, Wind, Worms | 1 Comment

time of in between

Posted on 09/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“the sweet small clumsy feet of april came

into the ragged meadow of my soul.”

~ e. e. cummings ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in April 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arms, Cloud, Desperation, Digital Imagery, Dream, Fingers, Gloom, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Praise, Sleep, Spring, Time, Trees, Winter | 1 Comment

when the owls awaken

Posted on 08/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

~ Vincent van Gogh ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Glauberg, Germany in August 1986.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ballet, Crickets, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eyes, Fireflies, Forest, Germany, Glauberg, Mountains, Night, Owls, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sleep, Stars, Sunset, Symphony | 1 Comment

this too shall pass

Posted on 11/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Future, Haphazardly, Hopes, Horror, Knowledge, Life, Morass, Oblivion, Pain, Pass, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Sleep, Solace, Time, Tumble, Vicious Circle, Void, Womb | 1 Comment

l’extase de l’insomnie

Posted on 06/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“Sleeping is no mean art:

for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Ecstasy, Insomnia, Inspiration, Night, Nightmare, Photography, Poetry, Psychosomatic, Sleep, Somnambulism | 1 Comment

la vie

Posted on 25/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

~ Tom Hiddleston ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Dead, Digital Imagery, Eat, Emotions, Feelings, La Vie, Life, Nonexistence, Nothing, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Shit, Sleep, Space, Street Art, Time | 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

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 MOON STARES DOWN

Posted on 19/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Before the winter fire,

I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

~ Sandy Denny ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Fingers, Goddess, Life, Moon, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sleep, Time, Tomorrow, Window | 1 Comment

SCREAM

Posted on 25/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

~ Francisco Goya ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Demons, Deviltry, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Fate, Folly, Nightmares, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Scream, Sleep | 1 Comment

I’LL WAIT

Posted on 11/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in England in June 1979.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Down, Face, Fate, Late, Life, Parties, Perspective, Photography, Pilgrim, Poetry, Sleep, Space, Time, Topsy-Turvy, Up, Wait | 1 Comment

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 ~

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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.

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

Posts Tagged With: Sleep

“Living is abnormal.”

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“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

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“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men,

and outcasts always mourn.”

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“the sweet small clumsy feet of april came

into the ragged meadow of my soul.”

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“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

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“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

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“Sleeping is no mean art:

for its sake one must stay awake all day.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We all have two lives. The second one starts

when we realize we only have one.”

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:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Before the winter fire,

I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The sleep of reason produces monsters.”

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“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

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“The colour of my soul is iron-grey

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

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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.”

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