“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;
and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”
~ Rumi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.
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Posts Tagged With: Thistles
thistles and thorns
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Song, Sublime, Thistles, Thorns
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immediate curtain
“Life is a cosmic joke.”
~ Robert Wyatt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Brushes, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Immediate, Life, Love, Memories, Music, Needles, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Thimbles, Thistles
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an absence of luminosity
“I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight.”
~ Louis Daguerre ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Ballerina, Bile, Blood, Blue, Canvas, Clouds, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Encore, Hi-Fi, Lilac, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pointed Shoes, Sketched, Smile, Soliloquy, Stereophonic, Storms, Tears, Thistles, Thorns
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window boxes
“…and had a face like a bulldog licking vinegar off a thistle…”
~ Terry Pratchett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bobby Sox, Clocks, Digital Imagery, Hair, Hollycocks, Locks, Obnoxious, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Roots, Teats, Thistles, Whistles, Window Boxes
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IMMEDIATE CURTAIN
“Life is a cosmic joke.”
~ Robert Wyatt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019. Poem title borrowed from Robert Wyatt’s song “Immediate Curtain” from the album ‘Matching Mole.’
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Brushes, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Immediate, Life, Love, Matching Mole, Memories, Music, Needles, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Robert Wyatt, Thimbles, Thistles
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THISTLES AND THORNS
“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;
and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”
~ Rumi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.
© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Life, Light, Love, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Silence, Song, Sublime, Thistles, Thorns
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THE HUMAN GARDEN
“I have no regrets,
I only think that I should have
liberally applied the weed killer more often…”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bouquet, Digital Imagery, Flowers, Garden, Human, Life, Lifetime, Madness, Normalcy, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shade, Thistles, Thorns, Weeds
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MATTER DANCE
“Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”
~ Bill Hicks ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken of a cave in the Vézère Valley, Dordogne, France in June 2006.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Chance, Clay, Clown, Dance, Digital Imagery, Dreamland, Fire, Joker, Life, Matter, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poker, Strangeness, Thistles, Toes, Tongues, Trance, Whistles, Words
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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.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afternoons, Digital Imagery, Evenings, Glistens, Glory, Life, Love, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Story, Street Art, Suffer, Terpsichore, Thistles, Transitions, Trauma
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WINDOW BOXES
“…and had a face like a bulldog licking vinegar off a thistle…”
~ Terry Pratchett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bobby Sox, Clocks, Digital Imagery, Hair, Hollycocks, Locks, Obnoxious, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Roots, Teats, Thistles, Whistles, Window Boxes
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IMMEDIATE CURTAIN
“Life is a cosmic joke.”
~ Robert Wyatt ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in December 2019. Poem title borrowed from Robert Wyatt’s song “Immediate Curtain.”
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Brushes, Curtain, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Immediate, Life, Love, Memories, Music, Needles, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Robert Wyatt, Thimbles, Thistles
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DISROBED
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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THISTLES AND THORNS
“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;
and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”
~ Rumi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Magdeburg, Germany in July 2017.
© 2017 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Perspective, Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Light, Love, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Thistles, Thorns
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