Posts Tagged With: Walls

sparkle

Posted on 30/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

Photo taken in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Atoms, Electrons, Energy, Heart, Higgs Boson, Life, Love, Matter, Neutrons, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protons, Quarks, Stardust, Universe, Walls | 2 Comments

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 19/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

constant state of confusion

Posted on 11/08/2025 by Nightpoet

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Photo taken in August 2025.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ablaze, Bleeding, Cheeks, Cobbled, Cobwebs, Corner, Corners, Crawling, Darkness, Day, Dormouse, Fingers, Floor, Girl, Graffiti, Green, Grumble, Grumps, Hat, Jade, Jungle Fire, Nails, Normal, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Pleasure, Poetry, Rues, Sea, Sentience, Shadow, Simplicity, Snails, Stage, Stain, State Of Confusion, Time, Walls, Whiskers, Wrinkled | 1 Comment

blood’s gonna flow

Posted on 30/06/2025 by Nightpoet

“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood

it is hard to shake hands with her.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Photo taken in October 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blood, Flow, Hate, Ignorance, Ineptitude, Liberty, Masses, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Proletariat, Streets, Stupidity, Teeth, Voice, Walls | 1 Comment

le cœur sans chaînes

Posted on 12/06/2025 by Nightpoet

“A broken heart starts with a broken love.”

~ Anonymous ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bastille, Chains, Emotions, Happiness, Heart, Lies, Life, Love, Melody, Myths, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rhymes, Riddles, Sing, Solitary Confinement, Speak, Street Art, Tears, Time, Truth, Walls, Warmth, Weep, Whispers | 1 Comment

empires

Posted on 29/04/2025 by Nightpoet

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

Photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage | 1 Comment

sparkle

Posted on 17/11/2024 by Nightpoet

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

000 sparkle 3

Photo taken in May 2015.

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 13/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 the ghosts of things unremembered 2

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

les pieds du pèlerin

Posted on 07/03/2024 by Nightpoet

“You never conquer a mountain.

You just stand on the top a few moments.

Then the wind blows your footprints away.”

~ Arlene Blum ~

000 les pieds du pèlerin 2

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Dream, Feet, Future, Graffiti, Memories, Mirror, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pilgrim, Poetry, Shops, Sidewalks, Time, Walls | 1 Comment

a place i called home

Posted on 27/02/2024 by Nightpoet

“There are places we fear, places we dream,

places whose exiles we became

and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

~Thomas Pynchon ~

000 a place i called home 1

Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ambience, Atmosphere, Danced, Floor, Fluid, Ghosts, Home, Immersion, Life, Light, Lighting, Objects, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Place, Poetry, Pools, Secretions, Shadows, Silence, Sound, Street Art, Walls | 1 Comment

walls

Posted on 14/11/2023 by Nightpoet

“Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”

~ Eugene O’Neill ~

000 walls 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in November 2000.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blindness, Digital Imagery, Intent, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prisons, Purpose, Walls | 1 Comment

her bright embrace

Posted on 27/09/2023 by Nightpoet

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

~ Karl Marx ~

000 her bright embrace 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken on September 21, 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Change, Death, Digital Imagery, Embrace, Face, Life, Lines, Memories, Moon, Moonlight, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Shadows, Strange, Twilight, Walls | 1 Comment

no summer this year

Posted on 06/07/2023 by Nightpoet

“…but there is no joy in Mudville –

mighty Casey has struck out.”

~ Ernest Thayer ~

000 no summer this year

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beams, Ceiling, Change, Clocks, Courtyard, Death, Determination, Digital Imagery, Drywall, Heart, Life, Loneliness, Moisture, Mould, Night, Noises, Path, Perspective, Photography, Plan B, Poetry, Secrets, Silence, Strength, Time, Trains, Walls, Windows | 1 Comment

sparkle

Posted on 27/05/2023 by Nightpoet

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

~ Carl Sagan ~

000 sparkle 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Atoms, Digital Imagery, Electrons, Energy, Heart, Higgs Boson, Life, Love, Matter, Neutrons, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protons, Quarks, Stardust, Universe, Walls | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 10/02/2023 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 the ghosts of things unremembered 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Digital Imagery, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

jours étranges

Posted on 30/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled

to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

~ Simone de Beauvoir ~

000 jours étranges 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ambience, Beauty, Ceiling, Curtain, Deception, Digital Imagery, Dissimulation, Emotions, Eyes, Fingers, Floor, Head, Hyperbole, Life, Love, Metaphor, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Puffery, Satiation, Sex, Tapestry, Tenses, Tongue, Walls, Words | 1 Comment

empires

Posted on 10/01/2023 by Nightpoet

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

~ Kurt Vonnegut ~

000 empires 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage | 1 Comment

sitting be i here

Posted on 09/12/2022 by Nightpoet

“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe

about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

~ Samuel Beckett ~

000 sitting be i here 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art by Federici taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Babbles, Beaver, Beehives, Bone, Bubbles, Bullets, Cloning, Cluster, Crime, Cuspid, Dancing, Delivered, Digital Imagery, Drink, Eyes, Fryer, Humming, Imagination, Knowledge, Liar, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Pie, Pied Piper, Pin, Poetry, Prancers, Scholars, Sealed, Sex, Sitting, Skeleton, Slices, Street Art, Thigh, Time, Tongue, Vices, Walls, Wisdom | 1 Comment

mare nostrum

Posted on 13/11/2022 by Nightpoet

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

~ Sappho ~

000 mare nostrum 1

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken near the island of Thera (Santorini) in 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Digital Imagery, Dreams, Evening, Eyes, Iambic, Lesbos, Light, Mare Nostrum, Moon, Perspective, Philosophers, Photography, Poetry, Poets, Sappho, Shadow, Ulysses, Walls | 1 Comment

saxophones

Posted on 16/09/2022 by Nightpoet

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

~ Carl Sandburg ~

000 saxophones 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Beauty, Beeswax, Breath, Breeze, Carp, Cosmic Pie, Cuttlebone, Death, Digital Imagery, Down, Fading, Floor, Friends, Heavenly, Home, Horror, Life, Lips, Mica, Mind, Music, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Saxophones, Sky, Sound, Spiritual, Symphony, Trees, Up, Walls, Wild | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Walls

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood

it is hard to shake hands with her.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“A broken heart starts with a broken love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“You never conquer a mountain.

You just stand on the top a few moments.

Then the wind blows your footprints away.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“There are places we fear, places we dream,

places whose exiles we became

and never learned it until, sometimes, too late.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Landlords, like all other men,

love to reap where they never sowed.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“…but there is no joy in Mudville –

mighty Casey has struck out.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“For small creatures such as we,

the vastness is bearable only through love.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled

to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.

That’s what it is to be alive.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“That’s what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe

about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

Δέδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

καὶ Πληΐαδες, μέσαι δέ

νύκτες, πάρα δ’ ἔρχετ’ ὤρα,

ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω.

“The moon and the Pleiades have set,

it is midnight,

time is passing,

but I sleep alone.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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