Posts Tagged With: Dreams

windblown ashes

Posted on 08/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The past is a bucket of ashes.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

Photo of Edgar Maxence’s Portrait of a Young Girl taken in April 2026.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Benefaction, Curse, Dreams, Dust, Electricity, Love, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Silhouette, Smile, Windblown | 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

bye bye baby

Posted on 14/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

~ Tim Buckley ~

A scan of an illustration drawn by Carol Carberry in 1969.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Dreams, Emotions, Fantasies, Fears, Hearts, Hopes, Legacy, Life, Love, Memories, Music, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Souls, Starsailor, Tim Buckley, Vision | 2 Comments

impressions

Posted on 27/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Everything that we experience every day

leaves a long-lasting impression.”

~ Pharrell Williams ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Contemplations, Dreams, Fantasies, Hallucinations, Happenstances, Impressions, Memories, Nightmares, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Visions, Wine | 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

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

skeleton trees

Posted on 20/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“What a severe yet master artist old Winter is…

No longer the canvas and the pigments,

but the marble and the chisel.”

~ John Burroughs ~

Photo taken in November 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Corners, Death, Desolation, Dreams, Embrace, Emotions, Heart, Leaves, Life, Light, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Spirits, Summer, Trees, Warmth, Winter | 1 Comment

last summer’s leaves

Posted on 19/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”

~ William Wordsworth ~

Photo taken in October 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Blanket, Carpet, Dark, Dreams, Emptiness, Fetal, Frigidity, Hope, Joy, Leaves, Night, Patchwork, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Starless, Summer, Winter | Leave a comment

legacy

Posted on 18/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

~ Nelson Henderson ~

Photo taken in September 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Creativity, Dreams, Energy, Hope, Incentive, Kiss, Legacy, Life, Perspective, Photography, Plant, Poetry, Promise, Sun, Survival | 1 Comment

sans script

Posted on 13/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

~ Edgar Allen Poe ~

Photo taken in April 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adventures, Awaken, Cinema, Confusion, Consciousness, Dreams, Elements, Emotions, Familiarity, Hallucinogenic, Hours, Images, Minds, Nowhere, Patterns, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Productions, Roles, Script, Sleep, Somewhere, Subliminal, Surrealism, Whirlwind | 1 Comment

shine a light

Posted on 14/11/2025 by Nightpoet

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

~ Arlo Guthrie ~

Photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beacon, Brows, Burn, Candle, Clouds, Darkness, Dreams, Effulgence, Flame, Gloaming, Glower, Lambency, Life, Light, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Radiance, Residue, Shadows, Shroud, Summer | 1 Comment

dark nuances dance

Posted on 05/11/2025 by Nightpoet

“It is always a poet’s winter.”

~ Kate Braverman ~

Photo taken in December 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Branches, Dark, Dreams, Light, Mists, Nuances, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reflections, Shadows, Solitude, Sun, White, Wind, Windows, Winter | 1 Comment

unreality

Posted on 15/10/2025 by Nightpoet

“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing

is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awake, Circles, Confusion, Corridor, Door, Dreams, Dreamtime, Eyes, Frustrations, Imagination, Joys, Paris, Perception, Perspective, Phantasmagoria, Photography, Poetry, Portal, Resurrected, Sleep, Spiral, Street Art, Subconsciousness, Time, Unreality | 1 Comment

ecce

Posted on 02/09/2025 by Nightpoet

“I am invisible, understand,

simply because people refuse to see me.”

~ Ralph Ellison ~

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Dreams, Ecce, Invisible, Life, Lying, Mirror, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Radar, Shadows, Sheets, Silence, Stars, Window | 1 Comment

the fabric of our dreams

Posted on 16/07/2025 by Nightpoet

“We are woven from the fabric of which our dreams are made.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: August, Breath, Dreams, Fabric, Full Moon, Juices, Life, Love, Lover, Night, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Screams, Sighs, Sleep, Stain, Sweat, Tapestry, Thighs, Woven | 1 Comment

beautiful bitch

Posted on 29/06/2025 by Nightpoet

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

~ Dion Boucicault ~

Photo taken in September 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aspirations, Bitch, Circus, Death, Desires, Dreams, Event Horizon, Hopes, Illusions, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promises, Tent, Time, Visions | 2 Comments

time

Posted on 28/06/2025 by Nightpoet

“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong

about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly

taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

Photo taken in October 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dimension, Dreams, Forest, Future, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Present, Tick, Time, Wasted Time | 2 Comments

le rêveur

Posted on 06/06/2025 by Nightpoet

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

~ Edgar Allan Poe ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Birth, Camera, Contemplation, Dreams, Hallucinations, Humid, Imagination, Inspiration, Mind, Moist, Paper, Paris, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Sleep, Spring, Summer, Thick, Visions, Warm, Words | 1 Comment

soothe a savage breast

Posted on 05/06/2025 by Nightpoet

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

~ William Congreve ~

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breast, Chaos, Child, Dissonance, Dreams, Eternal, Harmony, Heart, Hidden, Instruments, Life, Limited, Mind, Music, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Spaces, Stars, Structure, Visions, Voices, Whisper, Wind | 2 Comments

talk talk

Posted on 03/06/2025 by Nightpoet

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

~ James Lendall Basford ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Art, Cars, Cats, Cinema, Dogs, Dreams, Emotions, Energy, Fantasies, Fears, Heart, Hopes, Jobs, Kids, Life, Literature, Memories, Music, Neighbours, Nonsense, Nothing, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Religion, Sex, Space, Street Art, Thoughts, Time | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Dreams

“The past is a bucket of ashes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Well done is better than well said.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Everything that we experience every day

leaves a long-lasting impression.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

“What a severe yet master artist old Winter is…

No longer the canvas and the pigments,

but the marble and the chisel.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“You can’t have a light without a dark to stick it in.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“It is always a poet’s winter.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing

is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I am invisible, understand,

simply because people refuse to see me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We are woven from the fabric of which our dreams are made.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong

about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly

taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast,

To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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