Posts Tagged With: Hopes

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

the crystal ball

Posted on 13/09/2025 by Nightpoet

“Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.”

~ Roger von Oech ~

Photo taken in July 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abandoned, Amnesia, Colours, Crystal Ball, Darkness, Death, Desires, Dream, Emotions, Empty, Extinction, Forgotten, Freshness, Friends, Future, History, Hopes, Life, Nightmare, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Survivors, Time | 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

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

this too shall pass

Posted on 04/05/2025 by Nightpoet

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Dreams, Future, Haphazardly, Hopes, Horror, Knowledge, Life, Morass, Oblivion, Pain, Pass, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Sleep, Solace, Time, Tumble, Vicious Circle, Void, Womb | 3 Comments

bye bye baby

Posted on 14/02/2025 by Nightpoet

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

~ Tim Buckley ~

Photo created from a scan of an illustration drawn by Carol Carberry in 1969.

hollow spaces

Posted on 19/01/2025 by Nightpoet

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”

~ Raymond Chandler ~

Photo taken in La Gomera in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ghosts, Goats, Hollow Spaces, Hopes, Light, Notes, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Quotes, Warning, Whisper, Words | 1 Comment

missing piece

Posted on 20/12/2024 by Nightpoet

“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”

~ Miguel de Unamuno ~

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Photo of street art in Paris taken in August 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bargained, Bartered, Emotions, Fabrication, Heart, Hopes, Illusion, Lies, Life, Love, Missing Piece, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promises, Puzzle | 1 Comment

a lifetime yet to live

Posted on 27/09/2024 by Nightpoet

“Well done is better than well said.”

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

000 a lifetime yet to live 1

Photo taken in Fouras, France in June 2006.

how interesting

Posted on 25/08/2024 by Nightpoet

“A dream itself is but a shadow.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 how interesting 1

Photo taken in December 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Disappear, Dreams, Fade, Hopes, Interesting, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

bye, bye baby

Posted on 14/02/2024 by Nightpoet

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

~ Tim Buckley ~

000 bye bye baby 1

Photo created from an original scan of an illustration by Carol Carberry ca. 1969.

a silence in her eyes

Posted on 12/02/2024 by Nightpoet

“Eyes reveal what words hide.”

~ Soroosh Shahrivar ~

000 a silence in her eyes

Photo of street art taken in December 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breathing, Dreams, Eyes, Face, Fears, Gods, Growing, Hopes, Impunity, Impure, Life, Love, Mouth, Nightmares, Pablum, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Screaming, Shadow, Silence, Smile, Sneer, Stare, Stranger, Unbaptised | 1 Comment

how interesting

Posted on 06/12/2023 by Nightpoet

“A dream itself is but a shadow.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 how interesting

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in December 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Disappear, Dreams, Fade, Hopes, Interesting, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

mosaic

Posted on 29/08/2023 by Nightpoet

“We are mosaics – pieces of light, love, history,

stars glued together with magic and music and words.”

~ Anita Krishan ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aesthetic, Beauty, Consciousness, Desires, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Hopes, Legacy, Life, Memories, Moments, Moods, Mosaic, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Thoughts, Time, Ugliness | 1 Comment

pure, simple nothing

Posted on 22/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“I love to talk about nothing.

It’s the only thing I know anything about.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beliefs, Clueless, Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Egos, Future, Hopes, Imagination, Knowledge, Nothing, Nothingness, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Something, Time, Unknown | 1 Comment

this excrement unction

Posted on 14/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

~ T. S. Eliot ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bones, Darkness, Demons, Devil, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Empty, Excrement, Exhaustion, Exorcism, Forbidden, Heart, Hopes, Horizon, Lolita, Long, Memories, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sense, Short, Soul, Struggle, Unction | 1 Comment

the stolen years

Posted on 13/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

~ Christopher Paolini ~

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in December 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Breath, Creativity, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Gasp, Hopes, Impossibility, Lives, Oblivion, Paupers, Perspective, Photography, Plans, Poetry, Projects, Pyre, Routine, Stolen, Time, Wind, Years | 1 Comment

this too shall pass

Posted on 11/03/2022 by Nightpoet

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

000 this too shall pass 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in May 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Future, Haphazardly, Hopes, Horror, Knowledge, Life, Morass, Oblivion, Pain, Pass, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Sleep, Solace, Time, Tumble, Vicious Circle, Void, Womb | 1 Comment

mosaic

Posted on 31/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“We are mosaics – pieces of light, love, history,

stars glued together with magic and music and words.”

~ Anita Krishan ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in February 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aesthetic, Beauty, Consciousness, Desires, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Emotions, Hopes, Legacy, Life, Memories, Moments, Moods, Mosaic, Past, Photography, Poetry, Thoughts, Time, Ugliness | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Hopes

“Well done is better than well said.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Many talk as easily as they breathe,

and with quite as little thought.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Well done is better than well said.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“A dream itself is but a shadow.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Oblivion carries me on his shoulder…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Eyes reveal what words hide.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“A dream itself is but a shadow.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We are mosaics – pieces of light, love, history,

stars glued together with magic and music and words.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I love to talk about nothing.

It’s the only thing I know anything about.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We are mosaics – pieces of light, love, history,

stars glued together with magic and music and words.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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