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shitshow

Posted on 05/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“I used to think I had some control over my life.

Now, I just pull up a chair and watch

the shit show unfold before me.”

~ Anonymous ~

Photo of street art taken in October 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blues, Brown Boots, Cankers, Carbuncle, Consonants, Drool, Eyes, Fart, Goose Steps, Horseshoe Crab, Life, Manure, Oompah Band, Orangutang, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Seaweed, Shit Show, Snakes, Starfish, Vowels, Waves | 1 Comment

same desolate destination

Posted on 04/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Life is a dead-end street.”

~ H. L. Mencken ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alternative Realities, Ambience, Breath, Cloak, Darkness, Dead End Street, Death, Deception, Desolate, Destination, Dogmatic, Heartbeat, Hell, Life, Mantled, Matte, Obstruction, Paris, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potholes, Road, Scars, Softens, Stretches, Time, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

meandering

Posted on 03/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“I am a fart in a gale of wind,

a humble violet under a cow pat.”

~ Djuna Barnes ~

Photo taken in March 2026.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abandon, Bliss, Clue, Confusion, Darkness, Delusion, Diversion, Dream, Everything, Illusion, Innocence, Life, Map, Meandering, Nothing, Perdurable, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Spark, Streets, Sword, Time, Youth | 1 Comment

on breath borrowed

Posted on 02/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”

~ D. H. Lawrence ~

Photo taken in Santorini in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Breath, Death, Fall, Fallacy, Fingers, Haze, Horizon, Jump, Life, Mystery, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precipice, Promise, Pushed, Tapestry, Whispers, Windy | 1 Comment

bees knees

Posted on 01/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer;

you may want to visit the bee’s house some day.”

~ Proverb from the Congo ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apes, Bees, Capes, Cats, Dr. Seuss, Flowers, Happiness, Hats, Honey, Knees, Life, Love, Nature, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slapp Happy, Street Art | 1 Comment

unremembered things

Posted on 31/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.”

~ Romare Bearden ~

Photo taken in July 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Confusion, Forgetfulness, Life, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Remember, Thought, Unremembered Things | 1 Comment

sparkle

Posted on 30/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

Photo taken in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Atoms, Electrons, Energy, Heart, Higgs Boson, Life, Love, Matter, Neutrons, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protons, Quarks, Stardust, Universe, Walls | 2 Comments

a series of successive changes

Posted on 29/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Nothing in the world is permanent,

and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last,

but surely we’re still more foolish

not to take delight in it while we have it.”

~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2016.

(“I am only a series of successive changes.”)

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Change, Cheshire Cat, Fade, Lewis Carroll, Life, Motion, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slowly, Street Art, Successive, Transformation | 1 Comment

la rose des vents

Posted on 28/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“You were the poem I never knew how to write because

no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.”

~ Shannon L. Alder ~

Photo taken in France in June 2006.

Categories: Poetry | 1 Comment

the corridor

Posted on 27/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Photo taken in England in June 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bigotry, Blind Belief, Blind Faith, Blindfold, Corridor, Delusion, Fabrication, Factual, Falsehoods, Fantasy, Fear, Fiction, Gag, Hatred, Ignorance, Illusion, Intolerance, Lies, Myth, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Propaganda, Reality, Religion, Science, Superstition, Truth, Universe, Verifiable, Violence | 1 Comment

might have made a difference

Posted on 26/03/2026 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 ~

Photo taken in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Difference, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water | 2 Comments

clouds

Posted on 25/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare

at it long enough, it evaporates.”

~ Sarah McLachlan ~

Photo taken in October 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Above, Below, Clouds, Dubious, Essence, Ethereal, Life, Nebulous, Not There, Obscure, Opaque, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Soul, Substance, There, Within, Without | 1 Comment

a lifetime yet to live

Posted on 24/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Well done is better than well said.”

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bay Of Biscay, Dreams, France, Free, Future, Hopes, Innocent, Lifetime, Mud, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Senses, Smell, Spirit, Stranger In A Strange Land, Sunsets, Tide, Young | 2 Comments

floret

Posted on 23/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in –

what more could he ask? A few flowers

at his feet and above him the stars.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Photo taken in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Bounty, Colours, Eyes, Flowers, Heart, Life, Pastel, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sad, Sky, Sun, Truth, Warmth | 2 Comments

microchiroptera

Posted on 22/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“The color of my soul is iron gray and sad bats

wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

~ Claude Debussy ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bats, Beady Eyes, Daylight, Harvest Moon, Hours, Light, Musicians, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Playing, Poetry, Shadow, Sleep, Street Art, Wings | 1 Comment

obscured by clouds

Posted on 21/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.”

~ A.E. Housman ~

Photo taken in November 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Cross Eyed, Ground, Half Note, Hands, Ironies, Knees, Laughter, Litanies, Moon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Selene, Sky | 1 Comment

the next great adventure

Posted on 20/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

~ Timothy Leary ~

Photo taken in September 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adventure, Bummer, Chance, Death, Dice, Drugs, Hands, Life, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychedelic, Unknown, Wonder | 1 Comment

delirium dancing

Posted on 19/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.”

~ Gilles Deleuze ~

Photo taken in July 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Brink, Carousel, Confusion, Consciousness, Dancing, Death, Delirium, Drifting, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Swirling, Twirling | 1 Comment

but she didn’t

Posted on 18/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Most people never listen.”

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

Photo taken in March 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Breathe, Forever, Life, Listen, Love, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Raven, Shroud, Song, Spirits, Water, Whispered, Wind, Wisdom, Words | 2 Comments

only silence

Posted on 17/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive

makes me realize that silence has a sound.”

~ Jodi Picoult ~

Photo of street art taken in June 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Broken Heart, Echoes, Life, Love, Memory, Nothingness, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sense, Sensitivity, Silence, Street Art, Time, Voice | 1 Comment

“I used to think I had some control over my life.

Now, I just pull up a chair and watch

the shit show unfold before me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Life is a dead-end street.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I am a fart in a gale of wind,

a humble violet under a cow pat.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer;

you may want to visit the bee’s house some day.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Nothing in the world is permanent,

and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last,

but surely we’re still more foolish

not to take delight in it while we have it.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“You were the poem I never knew how to write because

no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“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:

“Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare

at it long enough, it evaporates.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Well done is better than well said.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in –

what more could he ask? A few flowers

at his feet and above him the stars.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The color of my soul is iron gray and sad bats

wheel about the steeple of my dreams.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Most people never listen.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive

makes me realize that silence has a sound.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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