“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness
strung together on necklace of despair?”
~ Marian Keyes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2019.
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Posts Tagged With: Solitude
dark nuances dance
“It is always a poet’s winter.”
~ Kate Braverman ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Black, Branches, Dark, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Light, Mists, Nuances, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Shadows, Solitude, Sun, White, Wind, Windows, Winter
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solitude descending
“Man loves company even if it is only
that of a small burning candle.”
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken sometime in 1989.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aging, Books, Brushes, Candlelight, Canvas, Colours, Digital Imagery, Imagination, Loneliness, Nothingness, Paint, Palette, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pores, Sadness, Shadows, Shelves, Shroud, Solitude, Spirit
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sing me a soft song of my childhood
“Childhood is a short season.”
~ Helen Hayes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2022.
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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
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silence
“The rest, is silence.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Vézère Valley, France in June 2006.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cocoon, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Listening, Lullaby, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, See, Silence, Sing, Solitude, Tastes, Touches
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TWILIGHT TIME
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose…”
~ Ecclesiastes 3 ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cold, Dance, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Illuminated, Jungle, Learned, Life, Night, Path, Photography, Poetry, Rebel, Shout, Silence, Sing, Solitude, Time, Torch, Twilight, Voice
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SOLITUDE
“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
~ e. e. cummings ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Forest, Haiku, Leaf, Listen, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Snow, Solitude
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THE RED ROOM
“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
~ Emile M. Cioran ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Abstract, Aksak Maboul, Amazement, Art Zoyd, Cadeau, Coda, Consciousness, Dada, Digital Imagery, Dissonant, Henry Cow, Hourglass, Lamp, Man Ray, Melodic, Music, Nothingness, Old Man, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Red, Resonance, Room, Sanctuary, Seclusion, Shadow, Shadows, Solitude, Speakers, Time, Turntable, Univers Zero
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NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
“The more powerful and original a mind,
the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
~ Aldous Huxley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bastille, Books, Bookshelves, Digital Imagery, Dust, Elysium, Future, Here, History, Hooks, Museum, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Poetry, Sanctuary, Skeletons, Solitude, There, Tomes
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ONE TWEET AT A TIME
“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities,
are incapable of self-government.”
~ Thomas Jefferson ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bent, Burning, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Hobbled, Insane, Isolation, Nation. World, Nightmares, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rot, Sculpture, Shadows, Silence, Sleep, Solitude, Streets, Tweet, Vaginas
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SILENCE
“The rest, is silence.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Vézère Valley, France in June 2006.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cocoon, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Listening, Lullaby, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, See, Silence, Sing, Solitude, Tastes, Touches
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FLEETING HEART…
“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness
strung together on necklace of despair?”
~ Marian Keyes ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in July 2019.
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PARIS: PLEASURES, PASSIONS AND PERAMBULATIONS – TEN
“The world is a book
and those who do not travel
read only one page.”
~ Saint Augustine ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a child’s lost companion taken in Paris in May 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anonymity, Desperation, Digital Imagery, Loneliness, Paris, Pedestrians, Photography, Poetry, Solitude, Streets
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SING A SONG OF SOLITUDE
“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.“
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.
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Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art
Tags: Celibacy, Digital Imagery, Do Re Mi, Dreaming, Harmony, Life, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Solitude, Song, Voice, Volume
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WITH WILLOWS WEEPING
“Solitude was my only consolation –
deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”
~ Mary Shelley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2016.
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Categories: Paris, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seclusion, Silence, Solitude, Walls, Weeping Willows
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NICHE
“A fine line separates the weary recluse
from the fearful hermit.
Finer still is the line between
hermit and bitter misanthrope.”
~ Dean Koontz ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a windowless niche high on the wall of an apartment building in Paris in June 2017.
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Categories: Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Hermit, Humanity, Life, Loner, Niche, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Recluse, Shadows, Solitude
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ALONE FOR THE HOLIDAYS
“I love to be alone.
I never found the companion
that was so companionable as solitude.”
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in December 2010.
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Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alone, Digital Imagery, Enjoyment, Holidays, Loneliness, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Solitude
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HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY
“…but these backwaters of existence sometimes breed,
in their sluggish depths, strange acuities of emotion…”
~ Edith Wharton ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Virginia in April 1992.
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Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Country, Digital Imagery, Farmhouse, Inspiration, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Solitude, Virginia
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SOLITUDE DESCENDING…
“Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken sometime in 1989.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aging, Digital Imagery, Loneliness, Nothingness, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Solitude
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SOLITAIRE
“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”
~ Franz Kafka ~
Original photo taken on the Rhine River in September 2016.
© 2016 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhine River, Solitaire, Solitude
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