Posts Tagged With: Horizon

on breath borrowed

Posted on 02/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”

~ D. H. Lawrence ~

Photo taken in Santorini in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Breath, Death, Fall, Fallacy, Fingers, Haze, Horizon, Jump, Life, Mystery, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precipice, Promise, Pushed, Tapestry, Whispers, Windy | 1 Comment

just as quickly forgotten

Posted on 26/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“They don’t keep their promises in the promised land,

its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.”

~ Don McLean ~

Photo taken in July 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breezes, Caress, Forbidden Fruit, Forgotten, Fragrances, Freedom, Fresh Air, Horizon, Life, Love, Mountains, Paradise, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Promised Land, Time, Valleys | 1 Comment

sand

Posted on 12/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“Who has believed in the world

and died with his name on his lips?”

~ Jack Kerouac ~

Photo taken in Virginia Beach, Virginia in November 2004.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beach, Children, Clouds, Future, Horizon, Imagination, Innocence, Kingdom, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ripples, Sand, Seasons, Youth | 1 Comment

never looked back

Posted on 01/10/2025 by Nightpoet

“Walk ahead, because if you look back, you will go back.”

~ Dragos Bratasanu ~

Photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Back, Black, Darkness, Death, Fire, Flames, Future, Horizon, Lick, Life, Looking Back, Memories, Night, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pitch, Poetry, Shroud, Sky, Smoke, Starless, Thirst, Time, Tongues | 1 Comment

the ghosts of my life

Posted on 31/08/2025 by Nightpoet

“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

~ Lauren Oliver ~

A scan of a Polaroid negative taken sometime around 1970.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Edge, Faces, Faux Pas, Ghosts, Haunt, Horizon, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Past, Patience, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Stone, Time | 1 Comment

a nice ending

Posted on 03/07/2025 by Nightpoet

“This man lies as other men breathe…”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Meme created in 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beacon, Blood Red, Darkness, Ending, Fascism, Horizon, Nation, Nice, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Revolution, Torch | 1 Comment

float away

Posted on 27/04/2025 by Nightpoet

“As they expect to see you drowning, keep on floating.”

~ Gift Gugu Mona ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boat, Calm, Clear, Float, Horizon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pondering, Sea, Storm, Wait | 1 Comment

last pages

Posted on 11/03/2025 by Nightpoet

“Ah, but I was so much older than, I’m younger than that now…”

~ Bob Dylan ~

Photo taken in in October 2006.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Book, Caves, Chances, Chapter, Days, Death, Glances, Horizon, Life, Nights, Pages, Perspective, Photography, Plains, Poetry, Sands, Shores, Stages, Time, Waves, Wind, Write | 1 Comment

who wouldn’t

Posted on 24/01/2025 by Nightpoet

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized

for a crime you haven’t committed.”

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~

Photo taken in January 2025.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cancer, Clouds, Death, Distant, Doubts, Horizon, Humanity, Life, Old Age, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Safe, Thinking, Time | 1 Comment

on breath borrowed

Posted on 13/12/2024 by Nightpoet

“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”

~ D. H. Lawrence

000 on breath borrowed

Photo taken in Santorini in October 1992.

long hard cold dark lonely winter

Posted on 21/11/2024 by Nightpoet

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

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

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 long hard cold dark lonely winter 2

Photo taken in Paris in September 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, Black, Candle, Colour, Dancing, Dreams, Eyes, Gray, Hills, Hope, Horizon, Life, Light, Nights, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, River, Seasons, Shadows, Shroud, Storm Clouds, Valleys, Winter | 2 Comments

a man without a country

Posted on 01/11/2024 by Nightpoet

“You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies.

You must learn to live alone in silence.”

~ William S. Burroughs ~

000 a man without a country

Photo taken in the Summer of 1978.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Apathy, Ashamed, Cesspool, Country, Decency, Democracy, Destroy, Fascists, Flame, Hatred, Heritage, Homophobia, Hope, Horizon, Ignorance, Intolerance, Liberty, Life, Misogyny, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Power, Putrid, Racism, Time, Violence | 1 Comment

one small dark cloud

Posted on 15/07/2024 by Nightpoet

“I keep the wind in the folds of my dress,

the rain on my hair, and light in my eyes.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

000 one small dark cloud 1

Photo taken in July 1986.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Anticipation, Clouds, Companion, Dancing, Exaltation, Frustration, Generously, Gently, Germany, Gradually, Horizon, Moisture, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, Sky | 1 Comment

sing a song of solitude

Posted on 26/06/2024 by Nightpoet

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”

~ Voltaire ~

000 sing a song of solitude 1

Photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Celibacy, Children, Do Re Mi, Dreaming, Drowning, Eye, Harmony, Hope, Horizon, Life, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Scheming, Silence, Sing, Solitude, Song, Stage, Time, Voice, Volume, Wife | 2 Comments

just as quickly forgotten

Posted on 18/05/2024 by Nightpoet

“They don’t keep their promises in the promised land,

its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.”

~ Don McLean ~

000 just as quickly forgotten

Photo taken in July 2023.

earth day

Posted on 22/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together… all things connect.”

~ Chief Seattle ~

000 earth day 1

Photo taken somewhere in northern France in May 2013.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Animals, Beauty, Clouds, Death, Earth, Earth Day, Environment, Extermination, Extinction, Fauna, Flora, France, Future, History, Horizon, Humanity, Life, Nature, Past, Photography, Plants, Poetry | 1 Comment

dances i never danced

Posted on 07/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

~ James Richardson ~

000 dances i never danced 2

Photo taken in June 2012.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Chances, Clouds, Dances, Fingers, Game, Hope, Horizon, Perspective, Photography, Play, Poetry, Puppet, Strings, Time, Winds | 1 Comment

safely sacred

Posted on 19/11/2023 by Nightpoet

“…it begins with isolation –

demons always inhabit desolate places…”

~ John Geddes ~

000 safely sacred 1

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken at Matala, Crete in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bats, Beach, Caves, Childhood, Crete, Digital Imagery, Father, Horizon, Isolation, Mother, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pure, Redemption, Rhythm, Sacred, Salvation, Secrets, Tides, Unblemished, Winds | 1 Comment

redolence

Posted on 03/11/2023 by Nightpoet

“Ah, but I was so much older then,

I’m younger than that now…”

~ Bob Dylan ~

000 redolence 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Digital Imagery, Distance, Dream, Embrace, Horizon, Love, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pillow, Poetry, Promise, Scent, Silent, Soft | 1 Comment

never looked back

Posted on 18/10/2023 by Nightpoet

“Walk ahead, because if you look back, you will go back.”

~ Dragos Bratasanu ~

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Back, Black, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fire, Flames, Future, Horizon, Lick, Life, Looking Back, Memories, Night, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pitch, Poetry, Shroud, Sky, Smoke, Starless, Thirst, Time, Tongues | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Horizon

“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“They don’t keep their promises in the promised land,

its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Who has believed in the world

and died with his name on his lips?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Walk ahead, because if you look back, you will go back.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“This man lies as other men breathe…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“As they expect to see you drowning, keep on floating.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Ah, but I was so much older than, I’m younger than that now…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized

for a crime you haven’t committed.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

“You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies.

You must learn to live alone in silence.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I keep the wind in the folds of my dress,

the rain on my hair, and light in my eyes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“They don’t keep their promises in the promised land,

its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Humankind has not woven the web of life.

We are but one thread within it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

All things are bound together… all things connect.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Though now, of all that could have been, there is nothing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“…it begins with isolation –

demons always inhabit desolate places…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Ah, but I was so much older then,

I’m younger than that now…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Walk ahead, because if you look back, you will go back.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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