Posts Tagged With: Walls

sparkle

Posted on 27/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

000 sparkle 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Atoms, Digital Imagery, Electrons, Energy, Heart, Higgs Boson, Life, Love, Matter, Neutrons, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protons, Quarks, Stardust, Universe, Walls | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 10/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

jours étranges

Posted on 30/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled

to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

000 jours étranges 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ambience, Beauty, Ceiling, Curtain, Deception, Digital Imagery, Dissimulation, Emotions, Eyes, Fingers, Floor, Head, Hyperbole, Life, Love, Metaphor, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puffery, Satiation, Sex, Tapestry, Tenses, Tongue, Walls, Words | 1 Comment

empires

Posted on 10/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

000 empires 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage | 1 Comment

sitting be i here

Posted on 09/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe

about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Babbles, Beaver, Beehives, Bone, Bubbles, Bullets, Cloning, Cluster, Crime, Cuspid, Dancing, Delivered, Digital Imagery, Drink, Eyes, Fryer, Humming, Imagination, Knowledge, Liar, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pie, Pied Piper, Pin, Poetry, Prancers, Scholars, Sealed, Sex, Sitting, Skeleton, Slices, Street Art, Thigh, Time, Tongue, Vices, Walls, Wisdom | 1 Comment

mare nostrum

Posted on 13/11/2022 by Nightpoet

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

~ Sappho ~

000 mare nostrum 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Evening, Eyes, Iambic, Lesbos, Light, Mare Nostrum, Moon, Perspective, Philosophers, Photography, Poetry, Poets, Sappho, Shadow, Ulysses, Walls | 1 Comment

saxophones

Posted on 16/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

000 saxophones 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Beauty, Beeswax, Breath, Breeze, Carp, Cosmic Pie, Cuttlebone, Death, Digital Imagery, Down, Fading, Floor, Friends, Heavenly, Home, Horror, Life, Lips, Mica, Mind, Music, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Saxophones, Sky, Sound, Spiritual, Symphony, Trees, Up, Walls, Wild | 1 Comment

a place i called home

Posted on 22/05/2022 by Nightpoet

“There are places we fear, places we dream,

places whose exiles we became

and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

~Thomas Pynchon ~

000 a place i called home

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ambience, Atmosphere, Danced, Digital Imagery, Floor, Fluid, Ghosts, Home, Immersion, Life, Light, Lighting, Objects, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Place, Poetry, Pools, Secretions, Shadows, Silence, Sound, Street Art, Walls | 3 Comments

les pieds du pèlerin

Posted on 23/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“You never conquer a mountain.

You just stand on the top a few moments.

Then the wind blows your footprints away.”

~ Arlene Blum ~

000 les pieds du pèlerin 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dream, Feet, Future, Graffiti, Memories, Mirror, Paris, Photography, Pilgrim, Poetry, Shops, Sidewalks, Time, Walls | 1 Comment

sparkle

Posted on 12/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

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

HER BRIGHT EMBRACE

Posted on 22/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

~ Karl Marx ~

000 her bright embrace

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on September 21, 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Change, Death, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Face, Life, Lines, Memories, Moon, Moonlight, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Strange, Twilight, Walls | 1 Comment

WALLS

Posted on 12/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”

~ Eugene O’Neill ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2000.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blindness, Digital Imagery, Intent, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisons, Purpose, Walls | 2 Comments

DESPITE IT ALL

Posted on 16/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

~ William Wallace ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2005.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Canyon, Clouds, Colours, Demons, Digital Imagery, Door, Echoes, Gray, Kaleidoscope, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Room, Shooting Star, Street, Tongue, Trees, Walls, Words | 1 Comment

IN ANNE’S GARDEN

Posted on 21/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“A light wife doth make a heavy husband.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Anne Hathaway’s Cottage in Shottery, England taken in July 1975.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anne Hathaway, Bees, Brook, Cottage, Digital Imagery, England, Flowers, Garden, Half-Timbered, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stream, Thatch, Walls, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

STARING AT EMPTY PAGES

Posted on 15/02/2021 by Nightpoet

This was in September 1970…

and then, just six short years later, I was already

thinking back to those more innocent times…

and now today it is all so much more distant,

so very far away and yet still so very near…

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on Rivermont Avenue, Lynchburg, Virginia in September 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aphrodisiacs, Black Beauties, Coffee, Digital Imagery, Gun, House, Joints, Ladies, Mattress, Mescaline, Music, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Records, Sidewalks, Songs, Spaghetti, Streets, Sunrise, Tea, Traffic Jam, Turntable, Vapours, Walls, Windows, Đà Nẵng | 1 Comment

BRUSHED WITH A BLUSH

Posted on 19/11/2020 by Nightpoet

“A blush is no language; only a dubious flag – signal

which may mean either of two contradictories.”

~ George Eliot ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blush, Brush, Cheeks, Dancing, Digital Imagery, Faces, Paint, Parade, Paris, People, Perspective, Photography, Podiatrists, Poetry, Procession, Ravines, Slopes, Tears, Traces, Trauma, Walls, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

SITTING BE I HERE

Posted on 06/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe

about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

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

COURAGE MIRAGE

Posted on 12/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“…’twas where i met my wife

in another life, when i had one…”

~ Anonymous ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Courage, Digital Imagery, Love, Mattress, Memories, Mirage, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silver, Sings, Springs, Squeaks, Teeth, Walls, Wine, Wood, Words | 1 Comment

LINES FOR A LOVER NOT NEXT TO ME

Posted on 05/07/2020 by Nightpoet

“Absence – that common cure of love.”

~ Lord Byron ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in August 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anguish, Beauty, Breasts, Breath, Centuries, Darkness, Dawn, Death, Desperation, Devour, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Exist, Eyes, Feeling, Heart, Imagination, Imprisoned, Life, Love, Memories, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Season, Sleepless, Stars, Time, Walls, Wish, Worlds | 1 Comment

SAXOPHONES

Posted on 25/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Beauty, Beeswax, Breath, Carp, Cosmic Pie, Cuttlebone, Death, Digital Imagery, Down, Fading, Floor, Friends, Heavenly, Home, Horror, In, Life, Lips, Mica, Mind, Music, Out, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Saxophones, Sky, Sound, Spiritual, Symphony, Trees. Breeze, Up, Walls, Wild | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Walls

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled

to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe

about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“There are places we fear, places we dream,

places whose exiles we became

and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“You never conquer a mountain.

You just stand on the top a few moments.

Then the wind blows your footprints away.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Every man dies. Not every man lives.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A light wife doth make a heavy husband.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

This was in September 1970…

and then, just six short years later, I was already

thinking back to those more innocent times…

and now today it is all so much more distant,

so very far away and yet still so very near…

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A blush is no language; only a dubious flag – signal

which may mean either of two contradictories.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe

about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“…’twas where i met my wife

in another life, when i had one…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Absence – that common cure of love.”