Posts Tagged With: Understanding

advice for troubled times

Posted on 08/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that

within me there lay an invincible summer.”

~ Albert Camus ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Affectionate, Aware, Caring, Charitable, Comforting, Compassion, Concerned, Consideration, Digital Imagery, Empathetic, Giving, Good Natured, Gracious, Heart, Helpful, Kindness, Life, Love, Loving, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sensitive, Sympathetic, Understanding, Warm-Hearted | 1 Comment

all this paradise

Posted on 04/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Think of what a paradise this world would be

if men were kind and wise.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Compassion, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Ears, Emotions, Empathy, Eyes, Generosity, Heart, Kindness, Life, Love, Nightmare, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Trees, Understanding, Warmth | 1 Comment

for all our lives

Posted on 17/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“…she pulled apart roses to appreciate the thorns……”

~ nightpoet ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Fear, Fester, Fixation, Life, Lives, Morning, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rotting, Shadows, Street Art, Understanding | 1 Comment

trees talk

Posted on 15/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.”

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

000 trees talk 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a dendrochronological sample of a tree felled in the year 30 AD, taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Boughs, Branches, Compassion, Devotion, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotion, Grace, History, Leaves, Life, Love, Music, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Song, Trees, Understanding, Voices, Wind | 1 Comment

shadow and light

Posted on 01/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Beauty, Beginning, Bright, Canary Islands, Colours, Dark, Digital Imagery, End, Hope, La Palma, Light, Mood, Palette, Perspective, Poetry, Rainbows, Shadows, Stardust, Understanding, Void | 1 Comment

CASTING SHADOWS

Posted on 16/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Comprehension, Death, Digital Imagery, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sunlight, Understanding, Universe | 1 Comment

TOUR DE BABEL

Posted on 13/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel

where all are speakers and no hearers.”

~ Alexander Smith ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Babel, Benevolence, Chaos, Compassion, Digital Imagery, Empathy, Hubris, Language, Life, Love, Mercy, Paris, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Understanding, Weight | 1 Comment

HANDS

Posted on 12/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Hands have their own language.”

~ Simon Van Booy ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Comfort, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Friendship, Hands, Ideals, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Touch, Understanding, Warmth, Wisdom | 3 Comments

TRICKLE DOWN

Posted on 20/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“A nation will not survive morally or economically

when so few have so much and so many have so little.”

~ Bernie Sanders ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Asshole, Capitalism, Chicken, Civilization, Digital Imagery, Eat The Rich, Empathy, Horse Manure, Impiety, Injustice, Life, Opportunistic, Oppression, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Powerful, Raven, Revolution, Rich, Shit, Trickle Down, Understanding, Working Classes | 1 Comment

STARDUST

Posted on 25/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

~ Laini Taylor ~

000 stardust

Digitally enhanced image created from the photos of two small surface fragments from Mars (left fragment) and the Moon (right fragment), thrown into space by the impact of meteors, taken in October 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beginning, Digital Imagery, End, Hope, Mars, Moon, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stardust, Stars, Understanding | 1 Comment

THE TERPSICHORE OF TENDERNESS

Posted on 07/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“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.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anachronism, Archaic, Awareness, Choreographed, Deep, Digital Imagery, Emotion, Fervour, Molten, Passion, Path, Patience, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prehistoric, Primitive, Primordial, Retrogression, Smouldering, Tenderness, Terpsichore, Understanding | 1 Comment

FOR ALL OUR LIVES

Posted on 09/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“All that nothing causes all that pain…”

~ Chris Smither ~

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

RAVEN BLACK

Posted on 23/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.”

~ Joshua Winning ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absinthe, Belittle, Black, Compensate, Cure, Darkness, Destroy, Digital Imagery, Disease, Emotions, Fantasies, Feckless, Forgiveness, Hate, Heart, Hostility, Hurt, Kindness, Lash, Pain, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Raven, Revenge, Strike, Torment, Truth, Understanding, Vitriol, Wrongs | 1 Comment

THESE DARK DAYS

Posted on 01/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

~ Plato ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bounty, Care, Concern, Conscience, Darkness, Days, Death, Digital Imagery, Empathy, Fear, Future, Harvest, Hatred, Heart, Ignorance, Kindness, Life, Light, Limits, Love, Perspective, Photography, Plentiful, Poetry, Positive, Rich, Safe, Seeds, Shared, Sickness, Strong, Time, Understanding | 2 Comments

ADVICE FOR TROUBLED TIMES

Posted on 24/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that

within me there lay an invincible summer.”

~ Albert Camus ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

WAG THE DOG

Posted on 06/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Any man can make mistakes,

but only an idiot persists in his error.”

~Marcus Tullius Cicero ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Neolithic dog burial taken in February 1988.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ass, Awareness, Bimbo, Bitch, Compassion, Comprehension, Consequences, Corruption, Cult, Death, Depravity, Digital Imagery, Distraction, Empathy, Fascist Pig, Filth, Future, Hatred, History, Ignorance, Immorality, Intelligence, Photography, Pig, Poetry, Politics, Racism, Sense, Silicone, Teeny Weenie, Tiny Hands, Understanding, Worshipers | 1 Comment

A TIME THAT’S NEVER BEEN

Posted on 06/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“Fare thee well! and if for ever,

still for ever, fare thee well.”

~ Lord Byron ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Affection, Annihilation, Death, Decay, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Feelings, Friendship, Lies, Life, Love, Memories, Misconception, Mistrust, Paris, Past, Photography, Poetry, Promises, Shrivel, Suicide, Summer, Time, Understanding, Wings, Winter, Words, Wrinkle | 1 Comment

LIFE AS ART

Posted on 14/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Canvas, Clarity, Colours, Digital Imagery, Diversity, Emotions, Imagination, Landscapes, Life, Love, Mirror, Paintbrush, Painting, Palette, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Rainbow, Sentiment, Tenor, Understanding, Verisimilitude | 1 Comment

WAITINGS

Posted on 13/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.”

~ Walter Bargen ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in October 2019. Courtesy of VollMond GmbH.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acceptance, Affection, Birth, Death, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Future, Godot, Hatred, Life, Love, Maturity, Old, Peace, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Time, Touch, Understanding, Waiting | 1 Comment

NEXUS

Posted on 01/10/2019 by Nightpoet

“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

~ Khalil Gibran ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Body Language, Bond, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Encounters, Energy, Eyes, Face, Feelings, Joy, Life, Light, Love, Mind, Mystery, Nexus, Observation, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rendezvous, Strangers, Understanding, Warmth, Words | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Understanding

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that

within me there lay an invincible summer.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Think of what a paradise this world would be

if men were kind and wise.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…she pulled apart roses to appreciate the thorns……”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,

We fell them down and turn them into paper,

That we may record our emptiness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Wherever there is light, look for the shadow.

The shadow is me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We think not in words but in shadows of words.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel

where all are speakers and no hearers.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Hands have their own language.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A nation will not survive morally or economically

when so few have so much and so many have so little.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Tenderness is the rest of passion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All that nothing causes all that pain…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You answer to none but the whim of your own black heart.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that

within me there lay an invincible summer.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Any man can make mistakes,

but only an idiot persists in his error.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Fare thee well! and if for ever,

still for ever, fare thee well.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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