Posts Tagged With: Wind

FOUR BEFORE TWELVE

Posted on 18/11/2021 by Nightpoet

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apathy, Ashes, Blind, Burning, Carcass, Darkness, Deaf, Death, Digital Imagery, Dumb, Elephant, Embers, History, House, Humanity, Ignorance, Indifference, Legacy, Life, Overpopulation, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Time, Twelve O'Clock, Wind | 1 Comment

SOOTHE A SAVAGE BREAST

Posted on 17/10/2021 by Nightpoet

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

~ William Congreve ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dissonance, Dreams, Harmony, Heart, Instruments, Life, Music, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Visions, Voices, Wind | 1 Comment

LAST LEAF

Posted on 12/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Kite-Like, Labyrinths, Leaf, Leaves, Love, Mazes, Mouth, Netherland, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puzzles, Seasons, Voice, Wind, Winter, Words | 1 Comment

TÊTE-À-TÊTES

Posted on 05/09/2021 by Nightpoet

“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

~ French Proverb ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dream, Earthquakes, Fires, Leaves, Life, Loneliness, Love, Memories, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Seasons, Slaughter, Storms, Tête-À-Têtes, Tombs, Wind | 1 Comment

THE LAST LEAF

Posted on 31/08/2021 by Nightpoet

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

~ French Proverb ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Bees, Branches, Death, Digital Imagery, Gray, Leaves, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Trees, Wind, Winter | 1 Comment

WHEN THE SKIES WERE SUDDENLY SILENT

Posted on 21/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”

~ Robert Fripp ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in August 1989.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Airplane, Birds, Cacophony, Commerce, Digital Imagery, Leaves, Life, Lullabies, Perspective, Photography, Plague, Poetry, Silence, Skies, Songs, Turbines, Wind | 6 Comments

ONCE BROKEN

Posted on 11/07/2021 by Nightpoet

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

~ Madame de Stael ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chameleons, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Heart, Life, Love, Memories, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Salamanders, Scattered, Tattered, Time, Torn, Trust, Wind | 1 Comment

THE NECTAR OF NATURE’S BEAUTIFUL BOUNTY

Posted on 23/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world.”

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Bounty, Cancer, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Earth, Extinction, Harmony, Heritage, Humanity, Nature, Nectar, Organism, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ulcer, Wind | 1 Comment

SANDS

Posted on 21/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breeze, Death, Digital Imagery, Echoes, Ether, Everything, Fade, Forever, Life, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Silence, Storm, Time, Voices, Void, Waves, Wind | 1 Comment

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BETWEEN

Posted on 15/06/2021 by Nightpoet

“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”

~ Peter Sinfield ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cesspool, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Fairness, Greed, Justice, Nights, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sadness, Safety, Scales, Shadow, Slaughter, Whisper, Wind | 1 Comment

TONGUE OF THE NIGHT

Posted on 02/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

~ Anne Carson ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Digital Imagery, Eye, Love, Mouth, Night, Pearl, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Taste, Tear, Tongue, Wind | 1 Comment

WIND DIRECTION DETERMINED

Posted on 19/04/2021 by Nightpoet

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die

life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.”

~ Langston Hughes ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 2000.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Colour, Digital Imagery, Dirt, Doldrums, Fingers, Flight Of Fancy, Imagination, Inspiration, Light, Nose, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smoke, Wall, Wind | 1 Comment

A SPYDER IN THE NIGHT

Posted on 27/03/2021 by Nightpoet

“Normal is an illusion.

What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

~ Charles Addams ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 1983.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Eyes, Hinges, Night, Pastures, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Skin, Snake, Spider, Trust, Web, Wind | 1 Comment

ONE MORNING’S MOON

Posted on 18/02/2021 by Nightpoet

“And he beholds the moon;

like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”

~ Gustave Flaubert ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken circa 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Clef, Clouds, Dawn, Digital Imagery, Disc, Light, Moon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precision, Scaffolding, Sky, Stave, Wind | 1 Comment

RHYMES WRUNG

Posted on 02/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

~ Mark Twain ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Avenues, Boulevards, Broth, Cats, Cobblestones, Digital Imagery, Fingers, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Rhymes, Rues, Sigh, Skies, Song, Spats, Streets, Thimble, Time, Trees, Try, Wind | 1 Comment

THE STOLEN YEAR

Posted on 09/12/2020 by Nightpoet

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

~ Christopher Paolini ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Breath, Creativity, Death, Dreams, Emotions, Gasp, Hopes, Impossibility, Lives, Oblivion, Paupers, Perspective, Photography, Plans, Poetry, Projects, Pyre, Routine, Stolen, Time, Wind, Year | 1 Comment

PISSING INTO THE WIND

Posted on 10/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“The government of the United States is not,

in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

~ John Adams ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in May 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Banana Republic, Bigotry, Blasphemy, Christianity, Dark Ages, Democracy, Digital Imagery, Fascist, Flies, Founding Fathers, Ignorance, Patriarchal, Perspective, Photography, Pissing, Poetry, Posteriors, Respect, Servitude, Shit, Theocracy, Tub-Thunpers, Wind | 1 Comment

JUST A TRICKLE

Posted on 28/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in 1989.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blank, Clouds, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Dream, Fantasize, Flood, Ideas, Imagination, Life, Paper, Pencil, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ponder, Rant, Rave, Sails, Scream, Stories, Syndrome, Think, Thoughts, Time, Whisper, Wind, Words, Write, Writer's Block | 1 Comment

GRAY

Posted on 05/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“A gray day provides the best light.”

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Breezes, Colour, Darkness, Days, Digital Imagery, Gradients, Gravestone, Gray, Landscapes, Life, Mountains, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Shadows, Summer, Time, Vistas, Wind, Windows | 1 Comment

A NUMBNESS

Posted on 04/09/2020 by Nightpoet

“Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.”

~ David Whyte ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cold, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Fabric, Heart, Killers, Leaves, Life, Night, Numbness, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soul, Streets, Time, Wind | Leave a comment

Posts Tagged With: Wind

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,

watches beside me in this windy place.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“L’automne est le silence avant l’hiver.”

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Autumn is the hush before winter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Knowledge is a deadly friend if no one sets the rules…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Caught between the tongue and the taste.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die

life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Normal is an illusion.

What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“And he beholds the moon;

like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“The government of the United States is not,

in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“A gray day provides the best light.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

“Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Like this:

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