Posts Tagged With: Stars

a colour of dust

Posted on 21/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

~ Omar Khayyam ~

000 a colour of dust 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Curtain, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Life, Night, Nightmare, Perspective, Plague, Poetry, Room, Sins, Smell, Sound, Stars, Vision, Voice, Wall, Whispering, Winds, Wine, Woman | 1 Comment

on the cusp

Posted on 15/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

~ Audre Lorde ~

000 on the cusp

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bleeping, Bone, Boogie, Cows, Cusp, Cuspid, Digital Imagery, Dish, Dog, Dreams, High, History, Life, Love, Moon, Night, Pale Face, Perspective, Photography, Pirate, Poetry, Sky, Spoon, Stars, Thighs, Thrust, Trace, Wife | 3 Comments

soothe a savage breast

Posted on 10/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

~ William Congreve ~

000 soothe a savage breast 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breast, Digital Imagery, Dissonance, Dreams, Harmony, Heart, Instruments, Life, Music, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Visions, Voices, Wind | 1 Comment

the distance of myth

Posted on 15/04/2023 by Nightpoet

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

~ Tennessee Williams ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken 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

bicycle

Posted on 07/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.”

~ Tennessee Williams ~

000 bicycle 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Bicycle, Digital Imagery, Hair, Harvest, Hounds, Howl, Hunt, Leaves, Moon, October, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Street, Wheels | 1 Comment

she smiled

Posted on 02/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile.”

~ Bob Marley ~

000 she smiled

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dark, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fire, Life, Love, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisms, Rainbows, Shadow, Sky, Smile, Stars, Tiptoeing | 1 Comment

moonchild

Posted on 28/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

~ A.J. Lawless ~

000 moonchild 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Coyotes, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fingers, Imagination, Interstellar, Life, Light Years, Moon, Moonchild, Moonlight, Music, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Secrets, Smile, Soliloquy, Sonatas, Stars, Time, Trouble, Wolves | 1 Comment

a gravity of language

Posted on 14/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

~ Tim O’Brien ~

000 a gravity of language 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Attraction, Centuries, Communication, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dust, Galaxies, Gravity, History, Imagination, Life, Literature, Magic, Memories, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Stars, Time, Time Machine, Words | 1 Comment

one thin wire

Posted on 08/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

~ Simon Van Booy ~

000 one thin wire 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Fate, Life, Moment, Night, Nothingness, Now, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Stars, Sunset, Windows | 1 Comment

dusted with stars

Posted on 01/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”

~ Neil Gaiman ~

000 dusted with stars 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of La Palma, the Canary Islands, in November 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banana Trees, Carpet, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Eyes, La Palma, Light, Moon, Palm Tree, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stars, Valley | 1 Comment

full blood wolf moon

Posted on 12/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.

The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

000 full blood wolf moon 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Alternative Facts, Beauty, Blood Moon, Blood Wolf Moon, Cellphone, Cheeks, Crimson, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Frozen, Imagination, Life, Magic, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Serfdom, Shadows, Slavery, Stars, Unreality, Vermilion, Wonder | 1 Comment

scripture

Posted on 10/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

000 scripture 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Avenues, Blood, Breezes, Cement, Cobbles, Cold, Corners, Cracks, Dancing, Darkness, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Document, Ice, Leaves, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preserve, Resurrection, Rooftop, Rumours, Scripture, Season, Semen, Shadows, Sisters, Slime, Snow, Spice, Stars, Streets, Tea, Towels, Trowels, Vowels, Wine | 1 Comment

paradox three – excerpt

Posted on 26/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Winter 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Astronomy, Black, Breath, Clouds, Dark, Digital Imagery, Heal, Hope, Life, Moon, Nights, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pitch, Poetry, Sleep, Sore, Stars | 1 Comment

the milk of human kindness

Posted on 06/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“The universe is a pretty big place.

If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

000 the milk of human kindness 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a natural calcite formation taken in the Musée de Minéralogie in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Civilization, Cosmos, Death, Digital Imagery, Galaxies, Humanity, Intelligence, Mineralology, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Science, Sirius, Space, Stars, The Milk Of Human Kindness, Universe, Void, Voyager I, Voyager II, Worth | 1 Comment

rainbows

Posted on 10/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

~ Anonymous ~

000 rainbows 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Biting, Bitter, Breath, Clouds, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Life, Light, Lonely, Long, Love, Night, Overwhelmed, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rainbows, Shadows, Sigh, Sour, Stars, Storm, Taste | 1 Comment

only ever now

Posted on 01/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”

~ James Clavell ~

000 only ever now 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Consequences, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dream, Existence, Fate, Future, Generations, History, Imagination, Life, Light, Memories, Night, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Stars, Time, Truth, Universe | 1 Comment

howl moonwards

Posted on 13/08/2022 by Nightpoet

“Be again, be again. (Pause.)

All that old misery. (Pause.)

Once wasn’t enough for you.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

000 howl moonwards

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Emotional, Eternal, Ether, Eyes, Galaxies, Heart, Howl, Life, Love, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars | 1 Comment

wordless

Posted on 20/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“I have no words for my reality.”

~ Max Frisch ~

000 wordless 1

Digitally enhanced image created from photos taken in Paris in May and June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breathing, Bucket, Christ, Clouds, Cosmos, Crutch, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Door, Earned, Edge, Feeble Minded, Gills, Hair, Learned, Lesson, Life, Lips, Liquid, Lungs, Maw, Moon, Mouth, Night, Opposition, Paris, Penny, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Prison, Respect, Seed, Shadows, Soul, Sponge, Spores, Stars, Stolen, Tongue, Van Gogh, Window, Winds, Wordless | 1 Comment

étoiles

Posted on 09/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

000 étoiles 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Beauty, Brightly, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Eyes, Flowers, Heart, Heavens, Life, Love, Microscopic, Minerals, Perspective, Photography, Plants, Poetry, Shimering, Shining, Sparkle, Stars, Time | 1 Comment

la malédiction

Posted on 26/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

~ Anton Szandor LaVey ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barbarians, Civilised, Compassion, Creation, Cultured, Cursed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Discarded, Environment, Experiment, Future, History, Humans, Kindness, Life, Mayhem, Murder, No Deposit No Return, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Time, Violence | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Stars

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,

sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The most beautiful curve on a woman’s body is her smile.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Words, too, have genuine substance –

mass and weight and specific gravity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Are we human because we gaze at the stars

or do we gaze at the stars because we are human.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.

The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.

Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The universe is a pretty big place.

If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Friendship is like a rainbow between two hearts.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Be again, be again. (Pause.)

All that old misery. (Pause.)

Once wasn’t enough for you.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I have no words for my reality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“From which stars have we fallen to meet each other here?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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