Posts Tagged With: Sleep

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 ~

000 i'll wait

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 ~

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

Posts Tagged With: Sleep

“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.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“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:

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