“Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.”
~ Gilles Deleuze ~
Photo taken in July 2024.
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Posts Tagged With: Dancing
delirium dancing
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Brink, Carousel, Confusion, Consciousness, Dancing, Death, Delirium, Drifting, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Swirling, Twirling
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fraise
“Strawberry fields forever…”
~ John Lennon ~
Photo taken in October 2018.
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pilgrim
“All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I have even heard it said
that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.”
~ Maxim Gorky ~
Photo taken in Paris in May 2018.
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the last rose of summer
“What a lovely thing a rose is!”
~ Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Photo taken in October 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ballerinas, Beauty, Bliss, Bow, Colour, Dancing, Death, Earth, Ghost, Life, Perspective, Petal, Photography, Poetry, Rose, Spirals, Wind
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the dancing man
“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”
~ Samuel Beckett ~
Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cacophony, Cadence, Change, Dancing, Free Verse, Hexameters, Life, Motion, Movement, Paris, Passion, Pentameters, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Tetrameters, Time
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butterfly days
“To everything there is a season…”
~ Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 ~
Photo taken in July 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Butterfly, Come Hither, Dancing, Faeries, Harlot, Lace Winged, Nectar, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smile, Thistledown
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double vision
“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool,
a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
~ Sholem Aleichem ~
Photo of street art taken Germany in September 2009.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Baffle, Belfry, Dancing, Deereyed, Double Vision, Dreamlike, Lark's Tongue, Life, Naughty, Nightness, Perception, Perspective, Philtre, Photography, Plaster, Pleasure, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art, Truffle
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long hard cold dark lonely winter
“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,
Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Photo taken in Paris in September 2016.
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nightempty streets
“There is a certain unique and strange delight
about walking down an empty street alone.”
~ Sylvia Plath ~
Photo taken in Paris in August 2017.
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the last rose of summer
“What a lovely thing a rose is!”
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Photo taken in October 2014.
© 2024 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ballerinas, Beauty, Bliss, Bow, Colour, Dancing, Death, Earth, Ghost, Life, Perspective, Petal, Photography, Poetry, Rose, Spirals, Wind
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delirium dancing
“Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.”
~ Gilles Deleuze ~
Photo taken in July 2024.
© 2024 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Brink, Carousel, Confusion, Consciousness, Dancing, Death, Delirium, Drifting, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Swirling, Twirling
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one small dark cloud
“I keep the wind in the folds of my dress,
the rain on my hair, and light in my eyes.”
~ Anaïs Nin ~
Photo taken in July 1986.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anticipation, Clouds, Companion, Dancing, Exaltation, Frustration, Generously, Gently, Germany, Gradually, Horizon, Moisture, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Sky
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the summer of discontent
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out
than it would have been if it had never shone.”
~ John Steinbeck ~
Photo taken in July 2021.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cadaver, Dancing, Discontent, Discrimination, Further, Ken Kesey, Life, Manna, Merry Pranksters, Money, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puppet, Soul, Stages, Summer, Tenure, Twilight, Wheels
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butterfly days
“To everything there is a season…”
~ Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8 ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2010.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Butterfly, Come Hither, Dancing, Digital Imagery, Faeries, Harlot, Lace Winged, Nectar, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smile, Thistledown
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the dancing man
“Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”
~ Samuel Beckett ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cacophony, Cadence, Change, Dancing, Digital Imagery, Free Verse, Hexameters, Life, Motion, Movement, Paris, Passion, Pentameters, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Tetrameters, Time
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scripture
“The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles.
Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
~ Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Avenues, Blood, Breezes, Cement, Cobbles, Cold, Corners, Cracks, Dancing, Darkness, Death, Demons, Digital Imagery, Document, Ice, Leaves, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Preserve, Resurrection, Rooftop, Rumours, Scripture, Season, Semen, Shadows, Sisters, Slime, Snow, Spice, Stars, Streets, Tea, Towels, Trowels, Vowels, Wine
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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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this foul thing
“Friends may come, friends may go, enemies are always faithful.”
~ Terrence Davies ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Anal, Arachnid, Cortex, Cusp, Dancing, Digital Imagery, Dilly-Dally, Dreamtime, Entwined, Foul, Interwoven, Ledge, Licentuous, Liquidity, Lisp, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silken, Slathered, Slithered, Spasms, Tango, Tepid, Thing, Tickle, Tubercle, Unconsciousness, Untethered
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the last rose of summer
“What a lovely thing a rose is!”
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in October 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ballerinas, Beauty, Bliss, Bow, Colour, Dancing, Death, Digital Imagery, Earth, Ghost, Life, Perspective, Petal, Photography, Poetry, Rose, Spirals, Wind
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shadowdancer
“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 May 2022.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breakfast, Dancing, Death, Digital Imagery, Leaf, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Silence, Spider, Venation, Web
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