Posts Tagged With: Sun

jesse / plain jane

Posted on 04/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.”

~ Robert Fripp ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Fringes, Hinges, Jane, Life, Love, Memories, Morning, Music, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rains, Skies, Stars, Sun, Thighs, Time, Tinsel, Tongues | 1 Comment

shroomagic

Posted on 10/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“…And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…”

~ Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2004.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Earth, Golden, Haiku, Life, Magic, Mushrooms, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sun | 1 Comment

slowly sinking into night

Posted on 02/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“We are made of starstuff.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in September 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Atoms, Cycle, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Night, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Rebirth, Star, Sun | 1 Comment

LEGACY

Posted on 04/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

~ Nelson Henderson ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Energy, Hope, Incentive, Kiss, Legacy, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plant, Poetry, Promise, Sun, Survival | 1 Comment

NO ONE LISTENING

Posted on 06/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Curtain, Digital Imagery, Gray, Listening, Memory, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purple, River, Song, Stillness, Sun, Trees | 1 Comment

NO REGRETS

Posted on 29/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Babies, Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Moon, Old Men, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Regrets, Sun, Today, Tomorrow, Truth, Yesterday | 1 Comment

VORTEX

Posted on 26/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“The Image is more than an idea.

It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas

and is endowed with energy.”

~ Ezra Pound ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a fossilized mollusk from the author’s collection taken in October 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, DNA, Existence, Galaxies, Hurricane, Life, Millenia, Mollusk, Orbits, Pattern, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Spiral, Sun, Truth, Universe, Vortex, Whirlpool | 1 Comment

JUST A FROWN

Posted on 17/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat,

let me be feverish and frowning.”

~ Anne Sexton ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1976.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Child, Crown, Digital Imagery, Earth, Feet, Frown, Head, Jewels, Life, Lines, Love, Patches, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quilts, Smile, Songs, Sun, Upside Down, Youth | 1 Comment

CANNABIC ODE

Posted on 25/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2004.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cannabis, Digital Imagery, Gods, Grow, Life, Mother Earth, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Seeds, Soil, Sun, Tomb, Trees, Weed, Womb | 1 Comment

DAUGHTER OF THE MOON

Posted on 11/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in her circled orb,

lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Cheek, Daughter, Hook, Labyrinth, Line, Moon, Night, Old, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Sun, Voice, Young | 1 Comment

ONE LONG LAST LOOK

Posted on 05/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

~ Donna Tartt ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balcony, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Forever, Gone, Haze, Horizon, Look, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Ship, Sun, Tears, Water | 1 Comment

I LOOKED UP

Posted on 30/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

~ Tim Buckley ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chain, Digital Imagery, Evening, Fire, Hands, Images, Jungle, Mind, Page, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remembrance, Savages, Street Art, Summer, Sun, Time, Up | 1 Comment

HORSEHEAD RHYTHMS

Posted on 28/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“The color of truth is gray.”

~ Andre Gide ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Branches, Cracks, Digital Imagery, Gables, Gray, Gutters, Horsehead, Patches, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rhythms, Ribbons, Sky, Sun, Thatches, Trees, Winds | 1 Comment

FROM THE ASHES

Posted on 22/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”

~ Octavia Butler ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Ashes, Atmosphere, Bleeding, Cerebral, Credentials, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Embers, Feathered, Feces, Fire, Flashes, Impressed, Life, Lightning, Night, Past, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Ribbons, Sashes, Smoked, Smouldered, Stars, Sun, Unblest, Undressed, Wings | 1 Comment

PHOENIX

Posted on 14/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”

~ Octavia Butler ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a Polaroid photo taken in the mid 1970’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Ashes, Atmosphere, Beast, Bird, Bleeding, Cerebral, Could, Couldn't, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Embers, Emotions, Feces, Fire, Further, Imagination, Life, Lightning, Love, Memories, Night, Past, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Remember, Ribbons, Sashes, Shadows, Smoked, Smouldered, Stars, Sun, Undressed | 1 Comment

BIRTHDATE, TO SOME DEGREE

Posted on 09/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“Memory, in widow’s weeds,

with naked feet stands on a tombstone.”

~ Aubrey de Vere ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Bristol, England in June 1980.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anthill, Ants, Bees, Birthday, Breath, Buttercups, Catseye, Colours, Death, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eyes, Fingers, Freedom, Grandmother, Grass, Gravestone, Graveyard, Greens, Hands, Hive, Lichens, Lips, Memories, Moss, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pollen, Rain, Scales, Seed, Shadows, Skin, Song, Stale, Sun, Tassels, Time, Toes, Withered, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

PROPHECY

Posted on 13/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

~ Charles Lamb ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of fifty years of hair (from 1970 and 2020) taken in June 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Change, Digital Imagery, Fast, Gray, Green, Life, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophecy, Rain, Slow, Sun, Time, Wind, Years | 1 Comment

SPANISH JUNE

Posted on 10/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

~ Traditional ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bed, Blood, Carrion, City, Cocaine, Days, Digital Imagery, Ears, Faces, Fading, Flags, Hot, Imagination, Insects, June. Spanish, Kings, Leaves, Naked, Perspective, Photography, Poet, Poetry, Pulse, River, Shoulders, Smile, Soft Machine, Streets, Summer, Sun, Thin, Thoughts, Trees, Vulture, Whispers, Windowsill, Witches, Words | 1 Comment

SHADOWS LAUGHING

Posted on 11/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”

~ Rumi ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Critic, Darkness, Dendritic, Digital Imagery, Future, Imagination, Life, Light, Mold, Moment, Mud, Palaver, Paris, Photograph, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Still Life, Stones, Stories, Sun, Wall | 1 Comment

ICARUS’ SISTER

Posted on 02/12/2019 by Nightpoet

“It was sad and fierce all at once,

alive with a lonely purity.”

~ Karen Russell ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Chatter, Colour, Cosmos, Dark Matter, Death, Digital Imagery, Einstein, Eyes, Future, Galaxies, Icarus, Imagination, Life, Light, Meteors, Moon, Night, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Quantum Theory, Sight, Sky, Sound, Stardust, Stars, Substance, Sun, Time, Universe | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Sun

“Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are made of starstuff.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It is the disease of not listening that I am troubled with.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The Image is more than an idea.

It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas

and is endowed with energy.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat,

let me be feverish and frowning.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What is a weed?

A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,

that monthly changes in her circled orb,

lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The color of truth is gray.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Memory, in widow’s weeds,

with naked feet stands on a tombstone.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Cocaine’s for horses, not for men,

they tell me it’ll kill me but they don’t say when,

cocaine run all ’round my brain…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It was sad and fierce all at once,

alive with a lonely purity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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