Posts Tagged With: Energy

sparkle

Posted on 30/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

Photo taken in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Atoms, Electrons, Energy, Heart, Higgs Boson, Life, Love, Matter, Neutrons, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protons, Quarks, Stardust, Universe, Walls | 2 Comments

why?

Posted on 22/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman,

war remains with us and within us,

impossible to forget but difficult to remember.”

~ Viet Thanh Nguyen ~

Photo taken in 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Corners, Death, Dying, Energy, Falsehoods, Ghosts, Hate, Immoral, Jungles, Lies, Life, Memory, Old Men, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sacrifice, Sadness, Shadows, Souls, Suffering, Survive, Swamps, Talents, Vietnam, War, Why, Youth | 2 Comments

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

stardust

Posted on 30/11/2025 by Nightpoet

“I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be

other things someday and I will be free.”

~ Laini Taylor ~

Photo of two small surface fragments from Mars (left) and the Moon (right), thrown into space by the impact of meteors, taken in October 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beginning, End, Energy, Hope, Mars, Moon, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stardust, Stars, Understanding | 3 Comments

sing me a soft song of my childhood

Posted on 09/11/2025 by Nightpoet

“Childhood is a short season.”

~ Helen Hayes ~

Photo taken in May 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Childhood, Darkness, Death, Dungeon, Energy, Face, Freedom, Hands, Inspiration, Life, Love, Lullaby, Memory, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shroud, Silence, Solitude, Song, Spring, Summer, Veil, Withered, Wrinkled | 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

towards the light

Posted on 26/09/2025 by Nightpoet

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

~ Hasidic Proverb ~

Photo taken in March 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Age, Clouds, Creativity, Death, Energy, Fate, Future, Imagination, Insight, Inspiration, Ironic, Life, Light, Memories, Old, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sagacity, Satisfaction, Sentience, Thirst, Time, Vision, Young, Youth | 1 Comment

timeless tomes

Posted on 27/08/2025 by Nightpoet

“So many books, so little time.”

~ Frank Zappa ~

Photo taken in February 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Beauty, Books, Bookshelves, Candles, Daylight, Electricity, Energy, Evolution, Existence, Future, Human Endeavor, Ideas, Knowledge, Lifeblood, Literature, Music, Opinions, Past, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Technology, Time Machines | 1 Comment

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

such a damn shame

Posted on 06/05/2025 by Nightpoet

“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”

~ Jack Kerouac ~

Photo taken in September 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Burns, Cause, Cigarette, Consumed, Death, Disappear, Effect, Energy, Existence, Flawed, Ghost, Glass, Life, Matter, Miracle, Painful, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Realities, Space, Stupidity, Swirl, Time, Transformation, Vacuity, Web, Wine | 1 Comment

things to look forward to

Posted on 02/04/2025 by Nightpoet

“Old age is a shipwreck.”

~ Charles de Gaulle ~

Photo taken in Paris in July 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ache, Breath, Check Engine Light, Death, Empty, Energy, Forgetfulness, Kneeling, Life, Memories, Muscles, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Senses, Sight, Sleep, Smell, Sound, Steps, Taste, Time, Wake Up | 1 Comment

electric eclectic

Posted on 26/03/2025 by Nightpoet

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

Photo taken in April 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Desires, Dreams, Eclectic, Egg, Electric, Emotion, Energy, Expression, Fertile, Influences, Inspirations, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Semen, Stimulation, Substance, Thoughts, Thrust | 1 Comment

one question

Posted on 21/02/2025 by Nightpoet

“Elvis has left the building.”

~ Horace Logan ~

Photo taken in February 2025.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bus, Curtain, Death, Door, Empty, Energy, Faces, Filtered, Floating, Forgotten, Life, Memory, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Question, Time, Vanish | 1 Comment

cobweb strange

Posted on 25/01/2025 by Nightpoet

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2019

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bats, Beauty, Bleached, Bones, Chamber, Cobwebs, Darkness, Death, Dust, Energy, Grit, Heavens, Life, Memories, Night, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Persona, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Sleep, Spirits, Time, Wind, Worms | 1 Comment

memories

Posted on 03/12/2024 by Nightpoet

“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.”

~ Deborah Kerr ~

000 memories 2

Photo taken in December 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Affection, Bones, Branches, Cheeks, Corpses, Darkness, Death, Disappointment, Energy, Fingertips, Ghosts, Heartbreak, Libations, Life, Light, Love, Memories, Offerings, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prayers, Sacrifices, Seasons, Spring, Summer, Time, Warmth | 1 Comment

sparkle

Posted on 17/11/2024 by Nightpoet

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

000 sparkle 3

Photo taken in May 2015.

a simple truth

Posted on 20/10/2024 by Nightpoet

“Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.”

~ Kedar Joshi ~

Photo taken on the Canary Island of La Palma in May 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Change, Create, Develop, Energy, Expand, Immortality, Light, Matter, Nature, Particles, Perspective, Phoenix, Photography, Physics, Poetry, Power, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Science, Stardust, Transform, Truth | 1 Comment

inconsistent clandestinies

Posted on 16/10/2024 by Nightpoet

“Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.”

~ Julia Cameron ~

000 inconsistent clandestinies

Photo taken in September 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Asunder, Babble, Balloons, Belly Up, Bubble, Caring, Cat, Clandestinies, Cold, Dark, Energy, Ether, Fall, Fishes, Flat Faced, Float, Floor, Inconsistent, Legs, Meander, Miles, Mouth, Obscure, Odds, Old, Parade, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pure, Ramble, Relax, Roam, Season, Slack, Slipped, Slithered, Somber, Tearing, Tedious, Time, Wait, Warm, Watch, Weaving, Wet, Whimsical, Wonder, Words, Worn | 1 Comment

stardust

Posted on 22/08/2024 by Nightpoet

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

~ Laini Taylor ~

000 stardust 2

Photo of two small surface fragments from Mars (left) and the Moon (right), thrown into space by the impact of meteors, taken in October 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beginning, End, Energy, Hope, Mars, Moon, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Stardust, Stars, Understanding | 1 Comment

the greatest gift

Posted on 12/06/2024 by Nightpoet

“Better than a thousand days of diligent study

is one day with a great teacher.”

~ Japanese Proverb ~

000 the greatest gift

Photo taken in June 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Birth, Blackness, Breath, Cells, Conception, Cunt, DNA, Ecstasy, Emotion, Energy, Experience, Fantasy, Feel, Genes, Gift, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Teachers, Warm, Wet, Womb | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Energy

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman,

war remains with us and within us,

impossible to forget but difficult to remember.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees,

under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be

other things someday and I will be free.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Childhood is a short season.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I dwell in a lonely house I know

that vanished many a summer ago.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“For the unlearned, old age is winter;

for the learned, it is the season of the harvest.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“So many books, so little time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Old age is a shipwreck.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Mysterious affair, electricity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Elvis has left the building.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“And alien tears will fill for him pity’s long broken urn,

for his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I am one of billions.

I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form.

I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on

to be other things someday and I will be free.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Better than a thousand days of diligent study

is one day with a great teacher.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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