Posts Tagged With: Stupidity

EMPIRES

Posted on 16/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage | 1 Comment

SO MUCH BETTER WITHOUT US

Posted on 09/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

~ Edward Abbey ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Animals, Beauty, Birds, Consequences, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, Ignorance, Isolation, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollution, Songs, Spring, Streets, Stupidity, Time, World | 1 Comment

CITADEL

Posted on 05/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are all born ignorant,

but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a hand painted tile taken in April 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Citadel, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fortress, Future, Heart, Hours, Ignorance, Life, Love, Peasants, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Safe, Shadows, Slaughter, Stupidity, Time, Weary | 1 Comment

APOCALYPSO

Posted on 20/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“This is the way the world ends,

not with a bang, but a whimper.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1999.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amusement, Apocalypse, Bastard, Brutish, Dance, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evil, Future, God, Ignorant, Image, Merciless, Narrow Minded, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Predator, Prey, Religion, Sadistic, Selfish, Shadows, Sins, Spiteful, Stupidity, Suffering, Vicious Circle | 1 Comment

LOOK BACK IN ANGER

Posted on 04/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“There is nothing so cruel in this world

as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”

~ Haruki Murakami ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in the late 1980’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anger, Apathy, Cluelessness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Empathy, Faceless, Fallacy, Friendships, Frustration, Future, Hopelessness, Ignorance, Life, Love, Memories, Narcissism, Nescience, Opportunities, Oppressors, Past, Peers, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Sins, Street Art, Stupidity, Time, Weep | 1 Comment

SHEEP

Posted on 13/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious,

and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.”

~ Moliere ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in December 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aristocrat, Bigots, Bleat, Bollocks, Capitalism, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Flock, Future, Gripe, Groan, Grumble, History, Ignorance, Intelligence, Lambs, Life, Mask, Misdeeds, Misnomers, Molotov Cocktail, Paris, Past, Photography, Pigs, Poetry, Politics, Revolution, Rich, Sheep, Shepherd, Slaughter, Snore, Street Art, Stupidity, Time | 1 Comment

BULBOUS MAXIMUS ~ A FAIRY TALE

Posted on 10/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“Nationalism is an infantile thing.

It is the measles of mankind.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ass, Balls, Bovid, Bribes, Caprice, Darkness, Death, Dick, Digital Imagery, Disgusting, Drawn and Quartered, Fairy Tale, Feces, Hate, Heads, History, Ignorance, Life, Nasty, Obnoxious, Odious, Paris, Photography, Pikes, Poetry, Politics, Prick, Propaganda, Rabble, Racist, Repugnant, Revolution, Shadows, Stupidity, Tweeting, Veremin | 1 Comment

THE FRAGMENT OF A TEAR

Posted on 29/08/2019 by Nightpoet

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apathy, Art, Cockroaches, Death, Digital Imagery, Dragonflies, Experiment, Extermination, Extinction, Future, Harmony, History, Hope, Humanity, Ignorance, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Memories, Music, Nature, Paris, Past, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Science, Stupidity, Tear, Time, Weep | 2 Comments

BRICK BY BRICK

Posted on 21/04/2019 by Nightpoet

“There is no darkness but ignorance.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beams, Beauty, Brainlessness, Bricks, Certitude, Charlatans, Clowns, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dogma, Dunces, Environment, Half-Timbered, Insight, Intellect, Intelligence, Knowledge, Life, Literature, Logic, Music, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Science, Stupidity, Time, Truth, Wisdom | 1 Comment

MISANTHROPE

Posted on 07/12/2018 by Nightpoet

“Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,

and I am not yet completely sure about the universe.”

~ quote attributed to Albert Einstein

by Frederick S. Perls ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Berlin in January 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Copulation, Digital Imagery, Extinction, History, Human Beings, Humankind, Intelligence, Life, Masses, Misanthrope, Past, Photography, Spawn, Species, Street Art, Stupidity, Survival, Unawareness, Universe | 1 Comment