Posts Tagged With: Poetry

the sex of writing

Posted on 02/05/2026 by Nightpoet

“My language is the common prostitute

that I turn into a virgin.”

~ Karl Kraus ~

Photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ejaculation, Emotions, Fornication, Haikus, Life, Literature, Love, Masturbation, Pages, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prose, Semen, Sex, Syntax, Whores, Writing | 1 Comment

bagages

Posted on 01/05/2026 by Nightpoet

“Never be a prisoner of your past,

it was just a lesson, not a life sentence…”

~ Anonymous ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bagages, Baggage, Childhood, Dirty Laundry, Emotions, Heart, Life, Love, Memories, Opportunity, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Relationships | 1 Comment

gee twenty

Posted on 30/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The sin of silence when they should protest

makes cowards of men.”

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

Photo of street art taken on the Rue Broca in Paris in May 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clowns, Crowns, Death, Demons, Dictators, Graffiti, Monsters, Napoleon, Oppression, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plutocracy, Poetry, Political Correctness, Politics, Psychopaths, Sexist Pigs, Soul, Street Art, Subdued, Sweat, Toil, Whores | 1 Comment

eternal life

Posted on 29/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“As yourselves your empires fall,

and every kingdom hath a grave.”

~ William Habington ~

Photo taken in Cimetière Père Lachaise, Paris in June 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Angels, Cadillac, Death, Eternal Life, God, Heaven, Holy Sea, Humanity, Life, Paris, Pearly Gates, Pensioner, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time, Waterbed, World's End | 1 Comment

past future tense

Posted on 28/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence;

the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”

~ Roy T. Bennett ~

Photo taken in April 2026.

Categories: Poetry, Photography | Tags: Future, Life, No Future, Past, Photography, Poetry, Tense, Time | 1 Comment

panorama

Posted on 27/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“I don’t do drugs, I am drugs.”

~ Salvador Dali ~

Photo taken in Orléans, France in April 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Colours, Drugs, Filter, Fragrances, Hues, Landscapes, Memories, Mushrooms, Panorama, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psilocybin, Psychedelics, Salvador Dali, Spring, Sun, Surreal, Timepieces, Windows | 1 Comment

girl with a rose

Posted on 26/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Love is like a rose. When pressed between

two lifetimes, it will last forever.”

~ Anonymous ~

Photo taken in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Girl, Heart, Joy, Life, Love, Lovers, Moonlight, Painting, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Roses, Seas, Thorns, Tide, Wind | 1 Comment

the nirvana of dizzy

Posted on 25/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“I was poised on its dizzy summit.”

~ Marcel Proust ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bottom, Circle, Dizzy, Down, Evolve, Nirvana, Nowhere, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Revolve, Round, Spiral, Staircase | 2 Comments

ship of state

Posted on 24/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible

will make violent revolution inevitable.”

~ John F. Kennedy ~

Photo taken in April 1990.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beheading, Captain, Crew, Hell, History, Mutiny, Passengers, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Pollution, S.S. United States, Ship Of State, Wet Dream | 1 Comment

the concept of glass

Posted on 23/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

~ Robertson Davies ~

Photo taken in May 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Aperture, Comprehension, Concept, Evolving, Fly, Freedom, Glass, Ignorance, Knowledge, Learning, Mysteries, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Room, Universe, Window | 1 Comment

trümmer

Posted on 22/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;

but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

~ Comte de Lautréamont ~

Photo taken in June 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cycle, Death, Debris, Debt, Dust, Human Folly, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Ruins, Shroud, Silence, Wind | 1 Comment

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

the event horizon

Posted on 20/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

~ Charles Bukowski ~

Photo taken in May 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Being, Breath, Deleted, Event Horizon, Farewell, Nothingness, Oblivion, Perspective, Philosophy, Poetry, Portal | 1 Comment

my wooden face

Posted on 19/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Photo taken in April 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blackness, Clueless, Confused, Death, Face, Flames, Future, Heart, Lies, Life, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Truth, Wood | 1 Comment

no room for rainbows

Posted on 18/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The colour of truth is gray.”

~ Andre Gide ~

Photo taken in May 2010.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clothes, Clouds, Coffee, Future, Gray, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbows, Room, Sky, Steam, Window | 1 Comment

castles of sand

Posted on 17/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Even castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually…”

~ Jimi Hendrix ~

Photo taken in Virginia Beach, Virginia in October 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Castles, Evolving, Game, King, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Revolving, Sand, Sand Castles, Tide, Time, Water, Wind | 1 Comment

rainbow

Posted on 16/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“…she comes in colours…”

~ Mick Jagger – Keith Richards ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Poetry, Photography | Tags: Beautiful, Illusion, Painted, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rainbow, Sky, There | 1 Comment

cornu copiae

Posted on 15/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“All animals are equal,

but some animals are more equal than others.”

~ George Orwell ~

Photo of a fragment of painted Roman wall plaster depicting what is possibly an empty cornucopia taken in January 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cancer, Cornucopia, Disease, Greed, Humanity, Hunger, Ideology, Ignorance, Inequality, Life, Lords, Masters, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Privilege, Religion, Slaughter | 1 Comment

changes

Posted on 14/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Well, my mind is going through them changes…”

~ Buddy Miles ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Poetry, Photography, Perspective, Life, Nothing, Upside Down, Changes, Was, Wasn't | 2 Comments

raven night

Posted on 13/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.”

~ Anna Letitia Barbault ~

Photo taken in Wells, England in June 2007.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clouds, Darkness, Eyes, Flame, Hope, Lamp, New Moon, Night, Nightmare, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Raven, Starless, Tongues, Warmth, Wings | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Poetry

“My language is the common prostitute

that I turn into a virgin.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Never be a prisoner of your past,

it was just a lesson, not a life sentence…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The sin of silence when they should protest

makes cowards of men.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“As yourselves your empires fall,

and every kingdom hath a grave.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence;

the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I don’t do drugs, I am drugs.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Love is like a rose. When pressed between

two lifetimes, it will last forever.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I was poised on its dizzy summit.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible

will make violent revolution inevitable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;

but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The colour of truth is gray.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Even castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“…she comes in colours…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“All animals are equal,

but some animals are more equal than others.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Well, my mind is going through them changes…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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