“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the early 1980’s.
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Posts Tagged With: Wisdom
sitting be i here
“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.
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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
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le penseur
“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Absurdity, Art, Avarice, Awareness, Beauty, Compassion, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Enlightenment, Fools, Future, History, Idiots, Ignorance, Knowledge, Lemmings, Life, Literature, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Progress, Propaganda, Science, Shadows, Stupidity, Thinking, Time, Transition, Wisdom
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le cadeau
“We are always the same age inside.”
~ Gertrude Stein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2016.
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tree of life
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
that we may record our emptiness.”
~ Khalil Gibran ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in January 2020 of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ancient, Beauty, Calm, Caress, Certainty, Child, Confidants, Conspirators, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fabric, Fantasy, Fires, Friends, Gnarled, Heart, Imagination, Life, Magic, Mentors, Mind, Muses, Passion, Past, Pataphysical, Patience, Perspective, Philosophers, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Thought, Tide, Time, Touch, Trees, Truth, Weaving, Wisdom, Wise, Woods
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immortality
“A book is the only immortality.”
~ Rufus Choate ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Black Magic, Books, Darkness, Death, Elixirs, Future, Heart, History, Immortality, Incantations, Life, Literature, Love, Memory, Minds, Pages, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potions, Spells, Time, Treasure, Wisdom
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HANDS
“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.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Comfort, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Friendship, Hands, Ideals, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Touch, Understanding, Warmth, Wisdom
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LA FEMME QUI LIT
“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
~ Lisa Kleypas ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alluring, Beauty, Books, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Heart, Intelligence, Learning, Life, Literature, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Read, Seductive, Wisdom, Woman
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WORDSMITH
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say,
but what we are unable to say.”
~ Anaïs Nin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alliteration, Beauty, Bellows, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Elucidation, Forge, Hammer, Imagination, Ingot, Innovation, Inspiration, Intrinsic, Life, Linguistic, Literature, Music, Nuance, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Semantics, Tongs, Wisdom, Wordsmith
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NEW SPRING FLOWERS
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
~ Rumi ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Spring 2002.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Colour, Digital Imagery, Flowers, Hunter, Learning, Meaning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prey, Sentences, Spring, Vine, Wisdom
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DO YOU READ
“nothing special about this easter,
bach weaving chorales with delicate fingers,
nimble notes bouncing off walls and windows,
resounding soundly through the floor…”
~ nightpoet ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2021.
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BRIDGE THIS SCHISM
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth,
but delicious in the years of maturity.”
~ Albert Einstein ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Communication, Curse, Days, Digital Imagery, Distance, Fabrication, Myth, Nights, Perspective, Phone, Photography, Poetry, Prison, Schism, Sing, Song, Wisdom
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SITTING BE I HERE
“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.
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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
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ELECTRICITY
“Mysterious affair, electricity.”
~ Samuel Beckett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a sculpture by Aldo Vitalen taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alluring, Beauty, Breadth, Breath, Compositions, Digital Imagery, Elaborate, Electricity, Emotions, Experiences, Faces, Felicity, Grace, Historical, Length, Life, Lines, Long-Winded, Love, Lyrical, Meaning, Memories, Music, Night, Oral, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Positions, Renditions, Rhymes, Sensuous, Song, Sprinkles, Traces, Traditions, Wisdom, Wit, Words, Wrinkles
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TREE OF LIFE
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
that we may record our emptiness.”
~ Khalil Gibran ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Batik, made by a Finnish artist named Riita in 1980, taken in January 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ancient, Beauty, Calm, Caress, Certainty, Child, Confidants, Conspirators, Creativity, Digital Imagery, Emotions, Fabric, Fantasy, Fires, Friends, Gnarled, Heart, Imagination, Life, Magic, Mentors, Mind, Muses, Passion, Past, Pataphysical, Patience, Philosophers, Photography, Poetry, Rhythm, Thought, Tide, Time, Touch, Trees, Truth, Weaving, Wisdom, Wise, Woods
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THE DRAGON IS DANCING
“Never laugh at live dragons.”
~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of embroidery by my friend Randy Hase taken in December 2019.
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THE GOLDEN SHAFT
“He who climbs upon the highest mountains
laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original Polaroid photo taken at the Peaks Of Otter, Virginia in Spring 1978 .
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Forever, Gibberish, God, Golden Calf, Hands, Lies, Life, Misspellings, Mistakes, Moses, Mountain, Never, Pants, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sand, Shaft, Song And Dance, Tablets, Time, Truth, Wisdom
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ANNE MARIE
“I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing.”
~ Vincent van Gogh ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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LA FEMME QUI LIT
“A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.”
~ Lisa Kleypas ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
© 2019 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alluring, Beauty, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Heart, Intelligence, Learning, Life, Literature, Love, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seductive, Wisdom, Woman
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IMMORTALITY
“A book is the only immortality.”
~ Rufus Choate ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Black Magic, Books, Darkness, Death, Elixirs, Future, Heart, History, Immortality, Incantations, Life, Literature, Love, Memory, Minds, Pages, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potions, Spells, Time, Treasure, Wisdom
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