Posts Tagged With: Ocean

might have made a difference

Posted on 26/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

Photo taken in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Difference, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water | 2 Comments

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

might have made a difference

Posted on 04/11/2024 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

000 might have made a difference 2

Photo taken in November 1991.

float downstream

Posted on 01/10/2024 by Nightpoet

“Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.”

~ John Lennon ~

000 float downstream

Photo taken in September 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Current, Death, Depths, Disappeared, Dissipated, Downstream, Fate, Float, Flotsam, Jetsam, Journey, Life, Maze, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rain, River, Riverbank, Swamps, Water, Wetlands | 1 Comment

an uncertain eternity

Posted on 22/09/2024 by Nightpoet

“How could drops of water know themselves to be a river?

Yet the river flows on.”

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

000 an uncertain eternity

Photo taken in September 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Conclusion, Death, Different, Dissipate, Eternity, Evolving, Life, Navigate, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Regressing, River, Same, Time, Uncertain, Water | 1 Comment

sometimes (meee-ow, myself and i)

Posted on 28/08/2024 by Nightpoet

“The world of reality has its limits;

the world of imagination is boundless.”

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau ~

Photo taken in August 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Black, Brown, Carnal, Cats, Colons, Commotion, Courtyard, Deep Fried, Erection, Eyes, Feet, Gray, Imagination, Kitties, Life, Lust, Mind, Night, Ocean, Paws, Perspective, Photography, Pie, Poetry, Pudding, Purring, Salty, Seasoned, Sections, Sensation, Sentences, Sigh, Sin, Sometimes, Spiced, Team, Thumb, Titties, Twiddle, Twinkles, Watch, Waves, White | 1 Comment

my father’s ashes

Posted on 13/06/2024 by Nightpoet

“We are in the black theater of nonexistence.

In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze,

for the vast drama of ourselves.”

~ Herman Wouk ~

000 my father's ashes 1

Photo taken in November 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Death, Dust, Life, Non-existent, Nothingness, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sea, Soul, Waves | 1 Comment

bouillon

Posted on 03/06/2024 by Nightpoet

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

~ Moliere ~

000 bouillon 1

Photo taken in May 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boil, Bouillon, Circles, Eye, Fog, Nomads, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Salt, Sea, Ships, Sodium Chloride, Soup, Stew, Wings | 1 Comment

le petit poisson

Posted on 21/05/2024 by Nightpoet

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

000 le petit poisson 2

Photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bait, Bite, Death, Existence, Fish, Hook, Life, Meaninglessness, Oblivion, Ocean, Perspective, Petit Poisson, Photography, Poetry, Water, Worm | 1 Comment

sailor

Posted on 03/12/2023 by Nightpoet

“We sailed for parts unknown to man,

where ships come home to die…”

~ Keith Ried ~

000 sailor 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Corner, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Edge, Emotions, Eyes, Faces, Hold, Leather, Life, Love, Mornings, Night, Nightmare, Ocean, Parched, Passion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poison, Pulp, Reason, Sailor, Ship, Sky, Stars, Storm, Throat, Time, Word, World | 1 Comment

my turn to be forgotten

Posted on 24/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

~ Joni Mitchell ~

000 my turn to be forgotten 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Book, Colour, Covers, Day, Death, Digital Imagery, Fading, Father, Forgotten, Memories, Mother, Oblivion, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Questions, Spines, Sunlight, Thoughts, Time | 1 Comment

might have made a difference

Posted on 15/01/2022 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an analog photo taken in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Digital Imagery, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water | 1 Comment

THE DECEMBER DREAM

Posted on 22/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from a photo taken in October 2017, provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises. Used with permission.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Boat, Darkness, Digital Imagery, Dolphins, Dream, Emotions, Fantasy, Hair, Heart, Legends, Life, Lips, Love, Memories, Moon, Mystery, Night, Ocean, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Shoreline, Time, Wind | 1 Comment

LE PETIT POISSON

Posted on 11/12/2021 by Nightpoet

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bait, Bite, Death, Digital Imagery, Existence, Fish, Hook, Life, Meaninglessness, Oblivion, Ocean, Perspective, Petit Poisson, Photography, Poetry, Water, Worm | 1 Comment

BOUILLON

Posted on 31/05/2021 by Nightpoet

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

~ Moliere ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Boil, Bouillon, Circles, Digital Imagery, Eye, Fog, Nomads, Ocean, Photography, Poetry, Sailors, Salt, Sea, Ships, Sodium Chloride, Soup, Stew, Wings | 1 Comment

DUST BY THE SHOVEL

Posted on 27/02/2021 by Nightpoet

**“Sometimes she was fine when the moon would shine,**

unfortunately it was usually cloudy…”

~ nightpoet ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of Gerhard Marcks’ sculpture Spielende Hengste (Frolicking Stallions) (1962) taken in 1980..

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Drift, Dust, Fine, Hovel, Love, Moon, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shine, Shovel, Sift, Street, Years | 1 Comment

FROM THE STARS STRUNG

Posted on 27/01/2021 by Nightpoet

“Age does not protect you from love.

But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in the summer of 1985.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Barrows, Digital Imagery, Heart, Life, Love, Nipples, Ocean, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, River, Shadows, Sighs, Stars, Thighs, Valley, Youth | 1 Comment

MY TURN TO BE FORGOTTEN

Posted on 07/10/2020 by Nightpoet

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

~ Joni Mitchell ~

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

SAILOR

Posted on 09/06/2020 by Nightpoet

“We sailed for parts unknown to man,

where ships come home to die…”

~ Keith Reid ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2017.

THE DECEMBER DREAM

Posted on 24/02/2019 by Nightpoet

“In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret,

an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.”

~ Diego Marchi ~

Digitally enhanced image cropped and created from an original photo taken in October 2017, provided courtesy of Euterpe Enterprises. Used with permission.

Posts Tagged With: Ocean

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Who has believed in the world

and died with his name on his lips?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“How could drops of water know themselves to be a river?

Yet the river flows on.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The world of reality has its limits;

the world of imagination is boundless.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We are in the black theater of nonexistence.

In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze,

for the vast drama of ourselves.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We sailed for parts unknown to man,

where ships come home to die…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe

the air is sickening, you will realize, too late,

that wealth is not in bank accounts and that

you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The world itself is but a series of footnotes

to a vast unfinished masterpiece.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“To live is the rarest thing in the world.

Most people exist, that is all.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I live on good soup, not on fine words.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Sometimes she was fine when the moon would shine,

unfortunately it was usually cloudy…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Age does not protect you from love.

But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Don’t it always seem to go

that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We sailed for parts unknown to man,

where ships come home to die…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret,

an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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