“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Photo taken in England in June 2007.
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Posts Tagged With: Fiction
the corridor
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bigotry, Blind Belief, Blind Faith, Blindfold, Corridor, Delusion, Fabrication, Factual, Falsehoods, Fantasy, Fear, Fiction, Gag, Hatred, Ignorance, Illusion, Intolerance, Lies, Myth, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Propaganda, Reality, Religion, Science, Superstition, Truth, Universe, Verifiable, Violence
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what we want to see
“We are always remaking history. Our memory is always
an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.”
~ Umberto Eco ~
Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
© 2025 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Events, Eyes, Fiction, Imagination, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street Art, Two Way Street, Writers, Years
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the corridor
“The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”
~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Photo taken in England in June 2007.
© 2024 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bigotry, Blind Belief, Blind Faith, Blindfold, Corridor, Delusion, Fabrication, Factual, Falsehoods, Fantasy, Fear, Fiction, Gag, Hatred, Ignorance, Illusion, Intolerance, Lies, Myth, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Propaganda, Reality, Religion, Science, Superstition, Truth, Universe, Verifiable, Violence
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forgetting truth
“Memories are like forgotten melodies that are best left
to sing their songs in the silent places of one’s heart.”
~ Basil Rathbone ~
Photo taken in March 2021.
© 2024 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Cherry Picked, Discarded, Embellished, Fantasy, Fiction, Filtered, Forgetting, Lesson, Life, Memories, Photography, Poetry, Reimagined, Remember, Time, Transformed, Truth
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the world we live in
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
~ Marcus Aurelius ~
Photo taken in December 2023.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Blind Belief, Earned, Fact, Fantasy, Fiction, Future, Glasses, Half Full, Ignorance, Intelligence, Knowledge, Lies, Life, Miracles, Morality, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promised, Right, Sadness, Science, Sin, Stupidity, Truth, Wickedness, Wisdom, Wrong
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view from a distant star
“Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.”
~ Mason Cooley ~
Photo taken in April 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Astronomy, Blind Belief, Charlatans, Death, Egos, Fables, Facts, Falsehoods, Fantasy, Fiction, Gene Pool, Logic, Myth, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Scientific Reasoning, Snake Oil Sellers, Superstition, Truth
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schadenfreude
“Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.”
~ George Orwell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
© 2023 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Benightedness, Blindness, Denial, Digital Imagery, Egotistical, Embellishment, Fact, Fiction, Forgotten, History, Ignored, Insensitivity, Lessons, Opportunities, Pain, Pathological, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Schadenfreude, Shards, Suffering
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what we want to see
“We are always remaking history. Our memory is always
an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.”
~ Umberto Eco ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
© 2022 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Events, Eyes, Fiction, Imagination, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Two Way Street, Writers, Years
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SCHADENFREUDE
“Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.”
~ George Orwell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
© 2021 nightpoet – all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Benightedness, Blindness, Denial, Digital Imagery, Egotistical, Embellishment, Fact, Fiction, Forgotten, History, Ignored, Insensitivity, Lessons, Opportunities, Pain, Pathological, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Schadenfreude, Shards, Suffering
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WHAT WE WANT TO SEE
“We are always remaking history.
Our memory is always
an interpretive reconstruction of the past,
so is perspective.”
~ Umberto Eco ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Events, Eyes, Fiction, Imagination, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Street, Writers, Year
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TRUTH
” ‘Tis strange – but true;
for truth is always strange;
stranger than fiction…”
~ Lord Byron ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of an etching made from a painting by G. Sanders, done in 1807, taken from the The Poetical Works Of Lord Byron published by J. & J. L. Gihon, Philadelphia 1852. From the author’s personal collection.
© 2020 nightpoet all rights reserved
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Digital Imagery, Fiction, Lord Byron, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prediction, Stranger, Truth
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