Posts Tagged With: Water

yawns back at me in yellow

Posted on 13/03/2023 by Nightpoet

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”

~ Bob Dylan ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bawl, Bellow, Bleat, Digital Imagery, Dream, Drink, Drown, Gutters, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Perspiration, Photography, Poetry, Precipitation, Rain, Roof, Salamander, Scream, Slime, Sweat, Water, Yellow | 1 Comment

the drowning man

Posted on 26/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.”

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Drowning, Futility, Life, Lungs, Mouth, Night, Paris, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Song, Sound, Street Art, Swimming, Tongue, Water | 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

fleeting heart

Posted on 26/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

~ Marian Keyes ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Alone, Child, Choice, Circumstance, Death, Digital Imagery, Edges, Feeble, Future, Gray, Heart, Life, Old, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polish, Solitude, Stones, Time, Tomb, Water | 1 Comment

thin around cause

Posted on 28/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altars, Breadth, Breath, Cause, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Effect, Eyes, Flame, Future, Length, Mountains, Paris, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ponder, Present, Reflect, Time, Universal Rhyme, Vision, Water, Windows | 1 Comment

autumnal reflections

Posted on 21/10/2022 by Nightpoet

“Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real,

and you’re just a reflection of him.”

~ Bill Watterson ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Bare, Branches, Bride, Chlorophyll, Digital Imagery, Leaves, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Shadows, Sky, Staircase, Stripped, Water, Wings, Winter | 1 Comment

bandora’s pox

Posted on 12/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!

What a monster…what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”

~ Blaise Pascal ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birds, Caskets, Confusion, Creativity, Death, Deathsong, Debate, Digital Imagery, Flame, Horizon, Illusion, Innuendo, Lanes, Life, Perspective, Persuasion, Photography, Pigskin, Poetry, Pox, Promise, Rhetoric, Seas, Songs, Water, Waves, Wood, Worm, Zodiac | 1 Comment

terpsichore

Posted on 29/04/2022 by Nightpoet

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

~ Corinna ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dance, Digital Imagery, Dream, Eyes, Goat-Footed, Kisses, Life, Long, Moon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sappho, Sleep, Star, Terpsichore, Water | 1 Comment

might have made a difference

Posted on 15/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water | 1 Comment

LE PETIT POISSON

Posted on 11/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bait, Bite, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Fish, Hook, Life, Meaninglessness, Oblivion, Ocean, Perspective, Petit Poisson, Photography, Poetry, Water, Worm | 1 Comment

YAWNS BACK AT ME IN YELLOW

Posted on 04/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”

~ Bob Dylan ~

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

WATCHING THE TREES DANCE

Posted on 08/08/2021 by Nightpoet

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 .

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Childhood, Curiosity, Dance, Digital Imagery, Evening, Fouras, France, Innocence, Life, Lips, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Terpsichore, Time, Trees, Truth, Water | 1 Comment

FLOW

Posted on 06/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Solitude is the place of purification.”

~ Martin Buber ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Baptize, Bones, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Fever, Flow, Melancholy, Photography, Poetry, Sorrow, Tears, Thirst, Water, Waxen, Woes, Worries | 1 Comment

TERPSICHORE

Posted on 17/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

~ Corinna ~

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

LEFT TO HER OWN DEVICES

Posted on 11/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

~ Anonymous ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2001.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Appetite, Breath, Curtain, Death, Devices, Digital Imagery, Hunger, Knots, Life, Mid-life Crisis, Mirror, Nectar, Old Man, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Smile, Steam, Taste, Water | 1 Comment

THIN AROUND CAUSE

Posted on 31/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

~ Nikolai Kozyrev ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altars, Breadth, Breath, Cause, Dreams, Effect, Eyes, Flame, Future, Length, Mountains, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ponder, Present, Reflect, Time, Universal Rhyme, Vision, Water, Windows | 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

NO QUARTER

Posted on 12/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Desert, Desolation, Digital Imagery, Life, Matchsticks, Memories, No Quarter, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Sands, Skeletons, Wastes, Water | 1 Comment

A YEAR OF RAIN

Posted on 11/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

~ John Steinbeck

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken at a Roman burial excavation in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Dancing, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Earth, Graves, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Sleep, Water, Year | 1 Comment

ONE LONG LAST LOOK

Posted on 05/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

~ Donna Tartt ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balcony, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Forever, Gone, Haze, Horizon, Look, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Ship, Sun, Tears, Water | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Water

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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“Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.”

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Like this:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

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Like this:

“What is life but fleeting moments of happiness

strung together on necklace of despair?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real,

and you’re just a reflection of him.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“What a chimera then is man. What a novelty!

What a monster…what a contradiction, what a prodigy.”

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Like this:

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

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Like this:

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past,

I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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.”

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Like this:

“Solitude is the place of purification.”

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Like this:

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

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Like this:

“To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We postulate that time is thin around the cause

and dense around the effect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“I had said goodbye to her once before, but it took everything

I had to say goodbye to her then, again, for the last time,

like poor Orpheus turning for a last backward glance at the ghost

of his only love and in the same heartbeat losing her forever:

hinc illae lacrimae, hence those tears.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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