Posts Tagged With: Violence

america hurts

Posted on 25/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“As I say, it is perhaps easier to love America passionately,

when you look at it through the wrong end of a

telescope than when you are right there.

When you are actually in America, America hurts.”

~ D.H. Lawrence ~

000 america hurts

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: America, Brave, Death, Digital Imagery, Firearm, Free, Hate, Helpless, Injustice, Insanity, Life, Madness, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sorrow, Violence | 6 Comments

the weight

Posted on 18/11/2022 by Nightpoet

“Man’s inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

000 the weight 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aggression, Awareness, Carpe Diem, Digital Imagery, Inhumanity, Life, Mortal Coil, Paradox, Perspective, Photography, Pipe Dream, Poetry, Seize The Day, Stage, Survival, Universe, Violence | 1 Comment

child

Posted on 28/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”

~ Margaret Mead ~

000 child 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the Rue Mouffetard in Paris in November 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Catastrophe, Children, Creative Expression, Digital Imagery, Environment, Freedom Of Speech, Future, Hate, Innocence, Intolerance, Legacy, Nightmare, No Future, Oligarchic, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plutocratic, Poetry, Racism, Servitude, Theocratic, Trust, Violence, Wonder | 1 Comment

life’s blood

Posted on 23/07/2022 by Nightpoet

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

~ Alison Prince ~

000 life's blood

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Air, Alive, Blood, Chaos, Consequences, Creativity, Darkness, Death, Desires, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Hate, Heart, High Tide, Imagination, Inhumanity, Inspiration, Life, Love, Old Age, Old Man, Page, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Shadow, Slings And Arrows, Time, Vibrant, Violence, War | 1 Comment

la malédiction

Posted on 26/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

~ Anton Szandor LaVey ~

000 la malédiction 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barbarians, Civilised, Compassion, Creation, Cultured, Cursed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Discarded, Environment, Experiment, Future, History, Humans, Kindness, Life, Mayhem, Murder, No Deposit No Return, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Time, Violence | 1 Comment

war

Posted on 04/06/2022 by Nightpoet

“Violence completes the partial mind.”

~ Peter Blegvad ~

000 war

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of ants at war taken in June 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ant Hills, Ants, Beautiful, Black Holes, Competition, Curse, Death, Digital Imagery, Fabric, Fantasy, Fodder, Harmonious, Life, Maniacs, Nature, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Stars, Universe, Violence, Weapons, Wet Dream | 1 Comment

a sea of humanity

Posted on 27/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

000 a sea of humanity 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Berlin, Cesspool, Compassion, Copulation, Death, Digital Imagery, Environment, Future, Greed, History, Hubris, Humanity, Ignorance, Intelligence, Life, Obsession, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Science, Sex, Violence | 1 Comment

the inheritors

Posted on 26/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

000 the inheritors 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art in Paris taken in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apathetic, Balance, Birth, Clueless, Consequences, Death, Digital Imagery, Evolution, Existence, Harmony, Hatred, History, Ignorance, Inheritors, Injustice, Life, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Selfishness, Shortsightedness, Street Art, Stupidity, Unaware, Violence, War | 1 Comment

americans love their guns

Posted on 25/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“Guns don’t kill people. They just make it easier.”

~ Anonymous ~

000 americans love their guns 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Americans, Apple Pie, Assault Weapons, Childrern, Death, Digital Imagery, Freedom, Guns, Murder, Photography, Poetry, Violence | 1 Comment

woman

Posted on 08/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“You had the power all along my dear.”

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

000 woman 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Gregos taken in Paris in May 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acumen, Affection, Ardour, Beauty, Cold, Compassion, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Drab, Emotions, Empathetic, Equals, Fair, Future, Gray, Heart, Hope, Imagination, Intelligence, Intuition, Just, Life, Love, Men, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Reason, Sensitivity, Sex, Sexuality, Sin, Sincerity, Subjugation, Violence, Woman, Women | 1 Comment

peace on earth

Posted on 27/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love,

while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

~ John Lennon ~

000 peace on earth 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in New York City, printed from an original negative and taken as Lennon sat in an automobile in front of The Dakota Building sometime in the mid to late 1970’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dreamers, Earth, Hatred, John Lennon, Killing, Love, Paradox, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Revolution, Violence, War | 1 Comment

love your world

Posted on 04/02/2022 by Nightpoet

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

000 love your world 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Arrogance, Bigotry, Copulation, Corruption, Darkness, Death, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Distrust, Extinction, Fear, Future, Greed, Hate, History, Humanity, Ignorance, Inequality, Intolerance, Irrationality, Laceration, Lies, Life, Love, Manipulation, Paris, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Slaughter, Street Art, Time, Violence, War | 1 Comment

AMERICANS LOVE

Posted on 05/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“Guns don’t kill people. Gun owners kill people.”

~ Oliver Markus Malloy ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Americans, Apple Pie, Assault Weapons, Cars, Childrern, Death, Digital Imagery, Fourth Of July, Freedom, Guns, History, Hollywood, Inventiveness, Movies, Murder, Myths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Violence | 1 Comment

TETHYS

Posted on 05/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems,

involves the whole human race.”

~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the Aegean Sea between Thera (Santorini) and Crete in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aegean, Conflict, Dark, Death, Digital Imagery, Empty, Greed, Ignorance, Life, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Silent, Storms, Tethys, Violence, Waters | 1 Comment

COLOSSEUM

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

~ Tacitus ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at the Colosseum in Rome in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arena, Bloodlust, Book, Bread And Circuses, Carnival, Colosseum, Cum, Curtain, Desire, Digital Imagery, Finger, Folly, Fun, Hunger, Loaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Sawdust, Slaughter, Thumb, Violence, Water, Women | 1 Comment

TELL ME

Posted on 15/08/2020 by Nightpoet

“Hatred is something peculiar.

You will always find it strongest and most violent

where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bigotry, Christianity, Compassion, Contrived, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dunning-Kruger, Empathy, Fascist, Gays, Guns, Hate, Honesty, Hunger, Immigrants, Intelligence, Libido, Lust, Mentality, Minorities, Night, Paris, Passion, Penis, Perspective, Perversion, Phony Patriotism, Photography, Pillow, Pistol, Poetry, Posturing, Premature Ejaculation, Pussy, Self-Aggrandizement, Shadows, Sleep, Violence, Wet Dreams | 1 Comment

AN ILL CONCEIVED UNNATURAL BLASPHEMY

Posted on 30/05/2020 by Nightpoet

“The world Is not dangerous become of those who do harm

but because of those who look at it without doing anything.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on the island of Santorini in 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blasphemy, Bodies, Bones, Civilisatiion, Creepers, Crumbles, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Experiment, Failure, Future, Grass, Hatred, Humanity, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plunder, Poetry, Resources, Rusts, Shadows, Sigh, Technology, Time, Trees, Unnatural, Vines, Violence, Waste | 1 Comment

WOMAN

Posted on 08/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“You had the power all along my dear.”

~ Glinda the Good Witch (The Wizard of Oz ~ L. Frank Baum) ~

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

LA MALÉDICTION

Posted on 05/11/2019 by Nightpoet

“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barbarians, Civilised, Compassion, Creation, Cultured, Cursed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Environment, Experiment, Future, History, Humans, Kindness, Life, Mayhem, Murder, Past, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Time, Violence | 1 Comment

LOVE YOUR WORLD

Posted on 13/03/2019 by Nightpoet

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

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

Posts Tagged With: Violence

“As I say, it is perhaps easier to love America passionately,

when you look at it through the wrong end of a

telescope than when you are right there.

When you are actually in America, America hurts.”

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“Man’s inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.”

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Like this:

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think…”

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Like this:

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

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Like this:

~ Peter Blegvad ~

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Like this:

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Guns don’t kill people. They just make it easier.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You had the power all along my dear.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love,

while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Guns don’t kill people. Gun owners kill people.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every human endeavor, however singular it seems,

involves the whole human race.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Hatred is something peculiar.

You will always find it strongest and most violent

where there is the lowest degree of culture.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The world Is not dangerous become of those who do harm

but because of those who look at it without doing anything.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You had the power all along my dear.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Reality is merely an illusion,

albeit a very persistent one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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