Posts Tagged With: Chance

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

vanishing footprints

Posted on 04/11/2025 by Nightpoet

“I dwell in a lonely house I know

that vanished many a summer ago.”

~ Robert Frost ~

Photo taken in May 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Brimful, Chance, Circumstance, Creativity, Death, Energy, Footprints, Giving, Inspiration, Legacy, Life, Losing, Love, Overflowing, Overwhelming, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shared, Taking, Tide, Time, Winning | 1 Comment

private hell

Posted on 30/01/2025 by Nightpoet

“Aequat omnes cinis.”

~ Seneca ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Absurdity, Ashes, Burning, Cards, Chance, Coal, Darkness, Dealer, Death, Fire, Hell, Ignorance, Intensity, Lies, Life, Looking Glass, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Piper, Poetry, Reflections, Shadows, Truth | 1 Comment

holey heavens

Posted on 06/12/2024 by Nightpoet

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

~ Judy Garland ~

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Photo taken in April 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chance, Clouds, Escape, Fate, Gray, Heavens, Hole, Imagination, Ladder, Life, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Think | 1 Comment

the next great adventure

Posted on 16/09/2024 by Nightpoet

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

~ Timothy Leary ~

000 the next great adventure

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

no future

Posted on 11/07/2024 by Nightpoet

“I believe the future is only the past again,

entered through another gate.”

~ Arthur Wing Pinero ~

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Photo of art by César Olhagaray on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Berlin, Carrot And Stick, Chance, Corporations, Freedom, Future, History, Life, Love, Masses, No Future, Opportunity, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Power, Rabble, Time, Wealth | 1 Comment

ambience

Posted on 01/07/2024 by Nightpoet

“Those who are finer and nobler are always alone

and necessarily so and that because of this

they can enjoy the purity of their own atmosphere.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

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Photo taken in Paris in May 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ambience, Atmosphere, Chance, Dance, Deep, Dense, Farce, Imagery, Kissed, Minimalist, Mystery, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Radical, Sense, Sleep, Song, Sound, Theatrics | 1 Comment

petals plucked

Posted on 06/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Life is a stream on which we strew

petal by petal the flower of our heart.”

~ Amy Lowell ~

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Photo taken in June 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Certainty, Chance, Death, Exist, Fate, Future, Gods, Insect, Life, Love, Pages, Perspective, Petals, Photography, Poetry, Prayer, Prophesize, Winds | 1 Comment

sacrilege

Posted on 11/01/2024 by Nightpoet

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

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Photo taken in April 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Balance, Chance, Circumstance, Create, Creativity, Darkness, Death, Enlighten, Fate, Fragile, Future, Heart, Heartbeat, Inspire, Learn, Life, Love, Memories, Opportunity, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potential, Sacrilege, Thread, Time, Wasted Time | 1 Comment

fragility

Posted on 01/12/2023 by Nightpoet

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world

equals the power of your intense fragility.”

~ e. e. cummings ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo, taken in April 2020, of thin 2000 year old pieces of birch bark that were preserved in a layer of sand, mud and loam below the level of the ground water table.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Archaeology, Birch Bark, Chance, Dance, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Fate, Fragility, Gate, Life, Luck, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plan, Poetry, Purpose, Sand, Shuffle, Thread, Time | 1 Comment

la roue de la vie

Posted on 08/09/2023 by Nightpoet

“The wheel of a man’s life. No mercy. No pity.”

~ Robert Jordan ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chance, Circles, Death, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Fate, Journey, Life, Path, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Spinning, Time, Wagon, Wheel, Wheel Of Life | 1 Comment

one chance

Posted on 04/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”

~ Terry Pratchett ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chance, Death, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

petals plucked

Posted on 14/04/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is a stream on which we strew

petal by petal the flower of our heart.”

~ Amy Lowell ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Certainty, Chance, Death, Digital Imagery, Exist, Fate, Future, Gods, Insect, Life, Love, Pages, Perspective, Petals, Photography, Poetry, Prayer, Prophesize, Winds | 1 Comment

wasted space

Posted on 04/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“ ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take

your dreams to the grave with you.”

~ Timothy Ferriss ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Bleed, Chance, Circumstance, Digital Imagery, Empty, Heed, Initiative, Insignificance, Life, Opportunity, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Space, Unnoticed, Wasted | 1 Comment

holey heavens

Posted on 04/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“Behind every cloud is another cloud.”

~ Judy Garland ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chance, Clouds, Digital Imagery, Escape, Fate, Gray, Heavens, Hole, Imagination, Ladder, Life, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

que sais-je?

Posted on 04/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

~ René Descartes ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a statue of the essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne located at the Square Paul-Painlevé in Paris, taken in June 2019.