Posts Tagged With: Moon

april paris moon

Posted on 21/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The last time I saw Paris, her trees were dressed for spring…”

~ Oscar Hammerstein II ~

Photo taken in Paris in April 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: April, Blinded, Bridges, Emotions, Heart, Lies, Love, Lovers, Moon, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poems, Poetry, Promises, Songs, Spring, Tides | 1 Comment

a basket of plenty

Posted on 06/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.”

~ Thomas Gray ~

Photo of a Roman wall painting in Herculaneum taken in August 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Apogee, Basket, Bliss, Breath, Darkness, Decibels, Dirges, Dogma, Heart, Ignorance, Incantations, Magician, Moon, Necromancer, Night, Painting, Past, Perigee, Perihelion, Perspective, Photography, Plenty, Poetry, Shadows, Spells, Stars | 1 Comment

obscured by clouds

Posted on 21/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.”

~ A.E. Housman ~

Photo taken in November 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Cross Eyed, Ground, Half Note, Hands, Ironies, Knees, Laughter, Litanies, Moon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Selene, Sky | 1 Comment

lunasee

Posted on 08/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense

of those that think they talk sense.”

~ Robert Frost ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blossoms, Death, Frown, Life, Love, Moon, Night, Opium, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pilgrim, Poetry, Rain, Sandals, Smoke, Spring | 2 Comments

wordless

Posted on 09/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“I have no words for my reality.”

~ Max Frisch ~

Photo taken in Paris in May and June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breathing, Bucket, Christ, Clouds, Cosmos, Crutch, Darkness, Dogma, Door, Earned, Edge, Feeble Minded, Gills, Hair, Learned, Lesson, Life, Lips, Liquid, Lungs, Maw, Moon, Mouth, Night, Opposition, Penny, Perspective, Photography, Planets, Poetry, Prison, Respect, Seed, Shadows, Soul, Sponge, Spores, Stars, Stolen, Tongue, Van Gogh, Window, Winds, Wordless | 1 Comment

no regrets

Posted on 16/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Photo taken in August 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Babies, Death, Life, Moon, Old Men, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Regrets, Sun, Today, Tomorrow, Truth, Yesterday | 1 Comment

the moon shines down

Posted on 11/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“Pain is universal, even the stars weep…”

~ Anonymous ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Misery, Moon, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reflects, Sadness, Share, Shines, Shroud | 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

the moon stares down

Posted on 28/11/2025 by Nightpoet

“Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

~ Sandy Denny ~

Photo taken in October 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Dance, Death, Dream, Fingers, Goddess, Laughing, Life, Moon, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sleep, Time, Tomorrow, Wake Up | 1 Comment

the silence descends

Posted on 11/11/2025 by Nightpoet

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

~ Wassily Kandinsky ~

Photo taken in March 1982.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Blackness, Distance, Howl, Moon, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reason, Silence, Wolves | 1 Comment

terpsichore

Posted on 27/10/2025 by Nightpoet

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

~ Corinna ~

Photo taken in Crete in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dance, Dream, Eyes, Goat-Footed, Kisses, Life, Long, Moon, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sappho, Sleep, Star, Terpsichore, Water | 1 Comment

with a fork

Posted on 11/10/2025 by Nightpoet

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Burn, Cinders, Dish, Embers, Fire, Fork, Fossils, Life, Moon, Music, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sentences, Skeleton, Spoon, Street Art, Tide, Tune | 1 Comment

dance on a dime

Posted on 10/10/2025 by Nightpoet

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

Photo taken in June 2025.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Audience, Blanks, Bob Dylan, Clocks, Dance, Dime, Life, Moon, Noses, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Roses, Socks, Songs, Suspenders, Wind | 1 Comment

like the moon

Posted on 30/05/2025 by Nightpoet

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

~ Gregory Maguire ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dark Side, Darkness, Labyrinth, Life, Moon, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Street Art | 2 Comments

moonchild

Posted on 25/05/2025 by Nightpoet

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

~ A.J. Lawless ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Coyotes, Darkness, Eyes, Fingers, Imagination, Interstellar, Life, Light Years, Moon, Moonchild, Moonlight, Music, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Secrets, Smile, Soliloquy, Sonatas, Stars, Time, Trouble, Wolves | 1 Comment

lunacy

Posted on 21/05/2025 by Nightpoet

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

~ Adelaide Crapsey ~

Photo taken in April 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cadence, Counterpoint, Darkness, Dissonance, Emotions, Howl, Leash, Life, Love, Lunacy, Memories, Moon, Music, Notes, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polyphony, Pother, Shadows, Songs, Wilderness | 1 Comment

same ol’ moon

Posted on 19/05/2025 by Nightpoet

“Lend me thy pen to write a word in the moonlight…”

~ from a French folk song ~

Photo taken in January 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Branches, Clouds, Curtains, Darkness, Face, Imagination, Life, Light, Moon, Old Paint, Perspective, Photography, Pieces, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Smile, Spell, Time, Windows, Words | 1 Comment

blabberwocky

Posted on 08/05/2025 by Nightpoet

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

~ Lewis Carroll ~

Photo taken in February 2020 of a chondrite meteorite that was found in Morocco in 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Buddha, Cappuccino, Cats, Concentric Circles, Creativity, Darkness, Eternal, Exquisite, Eyes, Farting, Fish, Galaxies, Imagination, Infinity, Jade, Kings, Light, Meteorites, Moon, Night, Obscurity, Obsolescence, Orbits, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Posteriors, Salacious, Spangles, Stars, Tail, Time | 1 Comment

one evening’s moon

Posted on 21/04/2025 by Nightpoet

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

~ Robert Frost ~

Photo taken in November 2003.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alive, Darkness, Disc, Evening, Life, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precision, Scaffolding, Silently, Sky, Slowly, Softly, Song, Stars, Surprise | 1 Comment

ladder to the moon

Posted on 16/04/2025 by Nightpoet

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.

And draw the ladder after me.”

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

Photo taken in February 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aerosol, Ancient God, Beauty, Bucket, Colour, Craters, Creativity, Darkness, Emotions, Imagination, Ladder, Landscape, Moon, Mountains, Music, Night, Painting, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pigments, Poetry, Prisms, Rainbows, Shadows, Sound, World | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Moon

“The last time I saw Paris, her trees were dressed for spring…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense

of those that think they talk sense.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I have no words for my reality.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Pain is universal, even the stars weep…”

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:

“Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming,

I have no thought of time.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Everything has a secret soul,

which is silent more often than it speaks.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Terpsikhore summons me to sing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The eye is always caught by light,

but shadows have more to say.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“She and the moon could always be found playing in the darkness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Dost thou not feel them slip, how cold! how cold!

The moon’s thin wavering finger-tips, along thy throat?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Lend me thy pen to write a word in the moonlight…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“It seems to fill my head with ideas –

only I don’t know exactly what they are.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“That I could clamber to the frozen moon.

And draw the ladder after me.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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