WATCHING THE TREES DANCE

 

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower,

hold infinity in the palm of your hand, an eternity in an hour.”

 

~ William Blake ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Fouras, France in May 1981 .

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

LEPIDOPTERA FANTASTIC

 

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2013.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

TERPSICHORE

 

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

 

~ Corinna ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Crete in October 1992.

---

© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved

---

TENDER TERPSICHORE

 

“Why was I the one who forgot what I thought I had known?

Tell me, and why am I the one who has seen Barcelona alone?”

 

~ Greg Copeland ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in France in June 2006.

---

© 2021 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

THE TERPSICHORE OF TENDERNESS

 

“Tenderness is the rest of passion.”

 

~ Joseph Joubert ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Mlle M. Rellew taken in February 2021.

---

© 2021 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

DESIRE

 

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

 

~ Robert Frost ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the sculpture “Le Désir” by Aristide Maillol taken in Paris in June 2019.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

THE SAME OLD STORY

 

“Ah, lord, it’s just the same old story,

something about love for glory…”

 

~ Tim Buckley ~

 

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

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

IN ALL THE SILENCE THAT IS SLEEP

 

“Silence is the speech of love.”

 

~ Richard Henry Stoddard ~

 

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

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

TEAT TIPIS

 

“Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen.

The majority of them weren’t even mammals.”

 

~ Robert Anton Wilson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image from a untitled illustration by Geoffrey Bartholomew created in 1980.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

BLACK BILE

 

“The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it.”

 

~ Israelmore Ayivor ~

 

continued

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

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

VIENS DANSER AVEC MOI

 

“We’re fools whether we dance or not,

so we might as well dance.”

 

~ Japanese Proverb ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original detail photo of the sculpture “La Danse” by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux taken in Paris in June 2019.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

WHORLS

 

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”

 

~ Carl Sandburg ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.

---

© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

ELLE DANSE AVEC DES MOTS

 

“I will have my serpent’s tongue –

my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice.

I will overcome the tradition of silence.”

 

~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa ~

 

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

---

© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

LUSH

 

“Savor with me the lushness of a lingering sleep…

and last night’s dream.”

 

~ Sanober Khan ~

 

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

---

© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

AMBER DANCE

 

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment.

There is no why.”

 

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2016.

---

© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

FLOWER CUNT WITH BEE

 

“The lovely flowers embarrass me,

They make me regret I am not a bee.”

 

~ Emily Dickinson ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

---

© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

IN THE KEY OF COME HITHER

 

“Come hither, come hither, come hither:

Here shall he see no enemy

but winter and rough weather.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

---

© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

COME DANCE WITH ME

 

“Dancing is silent poetry.”

 

~ Simonides ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in April 2008.

---

© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

LA PROCHAINE DANSE

 

“Dancing is like dreaming with your feet!”

 

~ Constanze Mozart ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

---

© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved

---

LE BALLET DE L’ÉQUILIBRE

 

“Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.”

 

~ Olen Steinhauer ~

 

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in Köln, Germany in September 2016.

---

© 2018 nightpoet all rights reserved

---