Posts Tagged With: Compassion

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

one heart shared

Posted on 05/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

~ Lord Byron ~

Photo taken in October 2021.

Categories: Poetry, Photography | Tags: Poetry, Photography, Perspective, Love, Heart, Life, Compassion, Words, Passion, Kindness, Entwined, Fair, Shared | 1 Comment

peace

Posted on 24/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

~ George Carlin ~

Photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Avarice, Awareness, Compassion, Death, Emotions, Fanatics, Future, Greed, History, Life, Love, Mercy, Nightmare, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Self-Aggrandizement, Selfishness, War, Wealth, Weapons | 1 Comment

hamster wheel

Posted on 20/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

~ Bob Dylan ~

Photo of street art by Kai taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Circles, Compassion, Creativity, Death, Gears, Hamster Wheel, Human, Life, Money, Morality, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Profit, Prosperity, Rat Race, Street Art, The Running Man, Time, Wheels | 1 Comment

the street to nowhere

Posted on 10/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”

~ Raymond Chandler ~

Photo taken in the Rue d’Ecosse in Paris in September 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Compassion, Conflict, Consequences, Death, Denial, Destiny, Environment, Extinction, Footsteps, Greed, Ignorance, Impasse, Intolerance, Life, No Future, Nowhere, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Respect, Responsibility, Self-Destruction, Street, Suffering, Violence, Vision | 1 Comment

heart

Posted on 06/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“The human heart is a strange vessel.

Love and hatred can exist side by side.”

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Compassion, Emotions, Empathy, Hate, Heart, Humanity, Life, Love, Monsters, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Self, Selfishness, Souls, Street Art | 1 Comment

le cœur d’arlequin

Posted on 07/11/2025 by Nightpoet

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

~ Blaise Pascal ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Actor, Circus, Clowns, Compassion, Harlequin, Heart, Hologram, Life, Love, Mayhem, Murder, Pantomime, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Play, Poetry, Punch And Judy, Puppet Show, Street Art | 1 Comment

the pen

Posted on 26/08/2025 by Nightpoet

“Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills.”

~William Shakespeare ~

Photo of street art taken in the Rue Champollion in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Compassion, Fair, Freedom Of Expression, Freedom Of Opinion, Freedom Of Speech, Fundamentalism, Heart, Intellect, Just, Paris, Pen, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Right, Street Art, Sword, Tyranny | 1 Comment

french

Posted on 27/06/2025 by Nightpoet

“French is a language that makes those

who speak it both calm and dynamic.”

~ Bernard Pivot ~

Photo (cropped) taken by Bernd Deutschmann in October 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chanson, Charm, Colour, Compassion, Creative Expression, Emotions, Empathy, Erotic, France, French, Grace, Heart, Imagery, Intuition, Language, Laughter, Life, Literature, Love, Mouth, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prose, Pure, Romance, Song, Understanding | 5 Comments

a dead rose

Posted on 22/05/2025 by Nightpoet

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a-flying:

and this same flower that smiles to-day, to-morrow will be dying.”

~ Robert Herrick ~

Photo taken in November 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Belief, Compassion, Darkness, Death, Emotions, Favour, Forgiveness, Friendship, Hate, Kindness, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resentment, Rose, Shadows, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

la malédiction

Posted on 15/02/2025 by Nightpoet

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

~ Anton Szandor LaVey ~

Photo of of a World War II bullet dredged out of the Rhine River taken in May 1981.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barbarians, Civilised, Compassion, Creation, Cultured, Cursed, Darkness, Death, Discarded, Environment, Experiment, Future, History, Humans, Kindness, Life, Mayhem, Murder, No Deposit No Return, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stars, Time, Violence | 1 Comment

ces vieilles mains

Posted on 15/01/2025 by Nightpoet

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

~ William S. Burroughs ~

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Photo taken in March 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Compassion, Death, Fate, Goodbyes, Grasp, Hands, Jungles, Kindness, Memories, Nothingness, Oblivion, Palms, Passion, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Scarred, Thorns, Time, Worn, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

a sea of humanity

Posted on 28/12/2024 by Nightpoet

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

000 a sea of humanity 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Berlin, Cesspool, Compassion, Copulation, Death, Environment, Fucking, Future, Greed, History, Hubris, Humanity, Ignorance, Intelligence, Life, Obsession, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Science, Sex, Violence | 1 Comment

a time for mourning

Posted on 18/11/2024 by Nightpoet

“Fascism is Capitalism in decay.”

~ Vladimir Lenin ~

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Photo taken in France in April 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Compassion, Conflict, Death, Dream, Greed, Hate, Heart, History, Hull, Inequality, Mourning, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Profit, Shore, Skeleton, War | 1 Comment

one last lonely lamp

Posted on 09/11/2024 by Nightpoet

“I said to my soul, be still…

So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

~ T.S. Eliot ~

000 one last lonely lamp 1

Photo taken in Wells, England in June 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alleys, Canceled, Compassion, Curtain, Darkness, Deaf, Death, Discontent, Future, Gloom, God, Grim Reaper, Heart, Hope, Lamp, Life, Light, Love, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Spigot, Time, Tragicomedy, Winter, Year | 1 Comment

might have made a difference

Posted on 04/11/2024 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 ~

000 might have made a difference 2

Photo taken in November 1991.

the street to nowhere

Posted on 29/09/2024 by Nightpoet

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”

~ Raymond Chandler ~

000 the street to nowhere 1

Photo taken in the Rue d’Ecosse in Paris in September 2015.

advice for troubled times

Posted on 01/09/2024 by Nightpoet

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that

within me there lay an invincible summer.”

~ Albert Camus ~

000 advice for troubled times 2

Photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Affectionate, Aware, Caring, Charitable, Comforting, Compassion, Concerned, Consideration, Empathetic, Giving, Good Natured, Gracious, Heart, Helpful, Kindness, Life, Love, Loving, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sensitive, Sympathetic, Understanding, Warm-Hearted | 1 Comment

already there

Posted on 27/06/2024 by Nightpoet

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 already there 1

Photo of street art by ‘Kai‘ taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Compassion, Cursive Writing, Death, Dogma, Empathy, Family Values, Future, Hatred, Intolerance, Lobbyists, Mobile Phone, New Black, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politicians, Politics, President, Pussy Grabber, Racism, Religion, Religious Bigots, Respect, Science, Sex, Sexism, Sheep, Street Art | 1 Comment

only one question

Posted on 21/06/2024 by Nightpoet

“In the light of all the gun violence in the USA,

I’d prefer my democracy unleaded.”

~ Jayseth Guberman ~

000 only one question

Photo of street art by ‘arsene‘ taken in Paris in June 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abused Wives, Children, Common Sense, Compassion, Cops, Culture, Death, Empathy, Fear, Firearm, Graffiti, Guns, Homeless, Life, Morality, Paranoia, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politicians, Politics, Poor, Question, Slaughter, Society, Street Art, The Elderly, Veterans, Violence, Why, Women | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Compassion

“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:

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The human heart is a strange vessel.

Love and hatred can exist side by side.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goosequills.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“French is a language that makes those

who speak it both calm and dynamic.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a-flying:

and this same flower that smiles to-day, to-morrow will be dying.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Last night I woke up with someone squeezing my hand.

It was my other hand.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever

in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Fascism is Capitalism in decay.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I said to my soul, be still…

So the darkness shall be the light,

and the stillness the dancing.”

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:

“The streets were dark with something more than night.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that

within me there lay an invincible summer.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“In the light of all the gun violence in the USA,

I’d prefer my democracy unleaded.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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