Posts Tagged With: Darkness

raven night

Posted on 13/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.”

~ Anna Letitia Barbault ~

Photo taken in Wells, England in June 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Darkness, Eyes, Flame, Hope, Lamp, New Moon, Night, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Raven, Starless, Tongues, Warmth, Wings | 1 Comment

sands of time

Posted on 09/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

Photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cobwebbed, Corroded, Darkness, Death, Eyes, Grief, Hour Glass, Life, Memories, Mirror, Pain, Paris, Past, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sands, Shadows, Song, Time | 1 Comment

a basket of plenty

Posted on 06/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.”

~ Thomas Gray ~

Photo of a Roman wall painting in Herculaneum taken in August 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Apogee, Basket, Bliss, Breath, Darkness, Decibels, Dirges, Dogma, Heart, Ignorance, Incantations, Magician, Moon, Necromancer, Night, Painting, Past, Perigee, Perihelion, Perspective, Photography, Plenty, Poetry, Shadows, Spells, Stars | 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

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 19/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

catshadow

Posted on 16/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“At night all cats are grey.”

~ French proverb ~

Photo taken in May 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Back, Bristled, Cat, Clawed, Comfort, Corners, Darkness, Familiarity, Life, Night, Padded, Paws, Perception, Perfection, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadow, Silence, Street, Twisted, Whisker | 1 Comment

eternal night

Posted on 10/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“We live along the shores of night,

at the edge of the eternal sea.”

~ Jack McDevitt ~

Photo taken in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Eternal, Fight, Life, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

wordless

Posted on 09/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“I have no words for my reality.”

~ Max Frisch ~

Photo taken in Paris in May and June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breathing, Bucket, Christ, Clouds, Cosmos, Crutch, Darkness, Dogma, Door, Earned, Edge, Feeble Minded, Gills, Hair, Learned, Lesson, Life, Lips, Liquid, Lungs, Maw, Moon, Mouth, Night, Opposition, Penny, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Prison, Respect, Seed, Shadows, Soul, Sponge, Spores, Stars, Stolen, Tongue, Van Gogh, Window, Winds, Wordless | 1 Comment

halcyon

Posted on 07/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blemish, Certitude, Darkness, Future, Halcyon, Illusions, Images, Life, Light, Mask, Memories, Mummery, Now, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Shadows, Silence, Silhouette, Taciturnity, Time, Truth | 1 Comment

light shines down

Posted on 23/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Photo taken in February 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Christening, Darkness, Dreams, Glistening, Hide, Horrors, Light, Lips, Listening, Lovers, Passions, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophesied, Screams, Shine | 1 Comment

dessama

Posted on 19/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Photo taken in Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Body, Darkness, Death, Embrace, Forgotten, Infirm, Kiss, Life, Old, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shroud, Suffering, Time | 1 Comment

the great silence

Posted on 18/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

~ Marcus Zusak ~

Photo of street art by HeartCraft taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Emotions, Heart, Life, Love, Oblivion, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Plea, Poetry, Shadows, Silence, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

as civilization crumbles

Posted on 16/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

~ Livy ~

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Annihilation, Change, Civilization, Crumble, Darkness, Death, Decay, Dust, Future, History, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Self-Aggrandizement, Shadows, Time, Weeds | 1 Comment

white snow

Posted on 15/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Photo taken in the mid 1980’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Black, Darkness, Death, Dreams, Eyes, Onyx, Photography, Poetry, Port, Sailors, Ships, Skies, Snow, Stars, White | 1 Comment

in the key of come hither

Posted on 12/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

~ Vironika Tugaleva ~

Photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Body, Chord, Come Hither, Dance, Darkness, Desire, Emotions, Erotica, Fingers, Flesh, Heart, Key, Love, Music, Pantomime, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Risqué, Sex, Soul, Symphony, Terpsichore, Tongue, Winter | 1 Comment

season of silence

Posted on 08/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips

along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness

that had been left inside me.”

~ Haruki Murakami ~

Photo taken in Winter 2002.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animosity, Carrion Crow, Cold, Darkness, Death, Emotions, Forgetfulness, Hapless, Helpless, Hopeless, Labyrinth, Laughter, Life, Loathing, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Purgatory, Seasons, Shadows, Silence, Snow, Struggle, Summer, Survive, Time, Trust | 1 Comment

immortality

Posted on 05/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“A book is the only immortality.”

~ Rufus Choate ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

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 | 2 Comments

la chambre rouge

Posted on 01/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Stronger than alcohol, faster than poetry,

ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!”

~ Arthur Rimbaud ~

Photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Cunt, Darkness, Emotions, Erotica, Eyes, Fibers, Heart, Life, Lolita, Love, Maidenhead, Nectar, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Red, Room, Sex, Shadows, Soul, Thigh, Throat, Virgin | 1 Comment

sacrificed

Posted on 31/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw

on a bank where they have no account.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Photo taken in July 1987.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Altar, Darkness, Death, Despondency, Flame, Future, Gloom, Hope, Life, Light, Memories, Months, Pain, Past, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Sacrifice, Shadows, Slaughter, Time, Year | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Darkness

“The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.”

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:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“At night all cats are grey.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We live along the shores of night,

at the edge of the eternal sea.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I have no words for my reality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips

along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness

that had been left inside me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“A book is the only immortality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Stronger than alcohol, faster than poetry,

ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw

on a bank where they have no account.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

SPREAD THE WORD:

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