Posts Tagged With: Wonder

the next great adventure

Posted on 20/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

~ Timothy Leary ~

Photo taken in September 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adventure, Bummer, Chance, Death, Dice, Drugs, Hands, Life, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychedelic, Unknown, Wonder | 1 Comment

seeing is believing

Posted on 22/12/2025 by Nightpoet

“Perception is a clash of mind and eye,

the eye believing what it sees,

the mind seeing what it believes.”

~ Robert Breault ~

Photo of street art taken in February 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Believing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seeing, Strange, Street Art, Wonder | 1 Comment

blue silence

Posted on 26/11/2025 by Nightpoet

“To me, words are primarily things to do with your mouth.”

~ Robert Wyatt ~

Photo taken in May 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blue, Clock, Curtains, Death, Empty, Game, Godot, Head, Life, Old, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Silence, Stillness, Ticking, Tired, Vistas, Waiting, Windows, Wonder | 2 Comments

patiently embracing

Posted on 16/06/2025 by Nightpoet

“We waste days like mad blackbirds

and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk –

sick human smiles wrap around us

like somebody else’s confetti.”

~ Charles Bukowski ~

Photo taken in June 2025.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alone, Bliss, Darkness, Days, Death, Embracing, Exist, Fortune, Happiness, Life, Love, Message, Night, Perspective, Phase, Phone, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Time, Waiting, Woman, Wonder | 1 Comment

the land of make-believe

Posted on 30/04/2025 by Nightpoet

“After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery ~

Photo taken in May 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Americans, Ass, Bloated, Constitution, Dumb-Eyed, Dump, Fat, Fingers, Golden Throne, Grunt, Little Hands, Milk And Honey, Narcissistic, Nothing, Old Man, Orange Face, Perspective, Photography, Pig, Poetry, Politics, Pudgy, The Hill, Thumbs, Twiddle, White Mansion, Wonder | 3 Comments

flowed and filled

Posted on 01/04/2025 by Nightpoet

“I kept always two books in my pocket,

one to read, one to write in.”

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

Photo taken in January 2015.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Emotions, Eyes, Feelings, Fill, Flow, Imagination, Life, Observations, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Read, Speak, Waves, Wonder, Write | 1 Comment

wave goodbye

Posted on 26/02/2025 by Nightpoet

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”

~ Marianne Moore ~

Photo taken in September 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Avenues, Beauty, Blunt, Brief, Confusion, Faces, Fly, Goodbye, Heart, Horror, In Between, Laughing, Life, Love, Oblivion, Pain, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Pleasures, Poetry, Rose, Stumble, Thorns, Wave, Wonder | 1 Comment

a child’s mind is like clay

Posted on 28/01/2025 by Nightpoet

“To learn to read is to light a fire.”

~ Victor Hugo ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Books, Clay, Heart, Literature, Love, Memories, Mind, Mother, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reading, Wonder | 3 Comments

in the silence and wonder

Posted on 04/01/2025 by Nightpoet

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings,

there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”

~ Pythagoras ~

000 in the silence and wonder

Photo taken in Paris in December 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amazement, Ambience, Awareness, Brushstrokes, Candor, Clarity, Colours, Composes, Comprehension, Ether, Existence, Feel, Hallucinations, Harmonic, Hear, Life, Music Of The Spheres, Nothingness, Paint, Palette, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Reflection, Silence, Soundless, Stars, Symphony, Time, Understanding, Wonder | 1 Comment

sometimes

Posted on 26/12/2024 by Nightpoet

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

000 sometimes

Photo taken in Paris in April 2008.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blurry Eyed, Crazy, Cross Eyed, Fault, Life, Motion, Muse, Perpetually, Perspective, Photography, Poesy, Poetry, Salt, Scribble, Smiles, Wasteland, Wavy, Whistling, Wide Eyed, Wild, Wonder, Word, Wordless | 1 Comment

a piece of the puzzle

Posted on 30/11/2024 by Nightpoet

“I am a searcher…I always was…and I still am…

searching for the missing piece.”

~ Louise Bourgeois ~

000 a piece of the puzzle 1

Photo of street art taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Curves, Dreams, Embrace, Emotions, Face, Heart, Lines, Love, Lover, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pieces, Poetry, Puzzle, Sex, Street Art, Touch, Wonder | 1 Comment

inconsistent clandestinies

Posted on 16/10/2024 by Nightpoet

“Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.”

~ Julia Cameron ~

000 inconsistent clandestinies

Photo taken in September 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Asunder, Babble, Balloons, Belly Up, Bubble, Caring, Cat, Clandestinies, Cold, Dark, Energy, Ether, Fall, Fishes, Flat Faced, Float, Floor, Inconsistent, Legs, Meander, Miles, Mouth, Obscure, Odds, Old, Parade, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Pure, Ramble, Relax, Roam, Season, Slack, Slipped, Slithered, Somber, Tearing, Tedious, Time, Wait, Warm, Watch, Weaving, Wet, Whimsical, Wonder, Words, Worn | 1 Comment

the next great adventure

Posted on 16/09/2024 by Nightpoet

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

~ Timothy Leary ~

000 the next great adventure

Photo taken in September 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adventure, Bummer, Chance, Death, Dice, Drugs, Hands, Life, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychedelic, Unknown, Wonder | 1 Comment

seeing is believing

Posted on 02/04/2024 by Nightpoet

“Perception is a clash of mind and eye,

the eye believing what it sees,

the mind seeing what it believes.”

~ Robert Breault ~

000 seeing is believing 1

Photo of street art taken in February 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Believing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seeing, Strange, Street Art, Wonder | 1 Comment

full blood wolf moon

Posted on 25/01/2024 by Nightpoet

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.

The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

000 full blood wolf moon 2

Photo taken in January 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Alternative Facts, Beauty, Blood Moon, Blood Wolf Moon, Cellphone, Cheeks, Crimson, Fingers, Frozen, Imagination, Life, Magic, Moon, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Serfdom, Shadows, Slavery, Stars, Unreality, Vermilion, Wonder | 1 Comment

incendiary sparkle

Posted on 17/12/2023 by Nightpoet

“A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.”

~ Matshona Dhliwayo ~

Photo taken in Paris in July 2014.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Amusement, Brain, Directions, Games, Lion, Lord, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Silence, Sparkle, Star, Straw, Wizard, Wonder | 1 Comment

no finer magic

Posted on 04/12/2023 by Nightpoet

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

~ Standing Bear ~

000 no finer magic 2

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Glauberg, Germany in July 1986.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Beauty, Browns, Colour, Dark, Deep, Digital Imagery, Greens, Heart, Imagination, Life, Magic, Morning, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Valleys, Wonder | 1 Comment

the key of wonder

Posted on 01/11/2023 by Nightpoet

“The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly…

not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.”

~ Henry Miller ~

000 the key of wonder 1

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arias, Bed, Birds, Branches, Bucket, Digital Imagery, Faces, Feathers, Floor, Fringe, Honeypot, Imagination, Key, Lace, Life, Love, Mea Culpa, Nectar, Neighbours, Nipples, Perspective, Photography, Pieces, Pilgrims, Poetry, Prisons, Rosaries, Scrubbing, Shit, Smiling, Songs, Teats, Wonder | 1 Comment

blue silence

Posted on 20/08/2023 by Nightpoet

“To me, words are primarily things to do with your mouth.”

~ Robert Wyatt ~

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of the painting “Blue Pain” (2009) by M. Weller taken in May 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blue, Clock, Curtains, Death, Digital Imagery, Empty, Game, Godot, Head, Life, Old, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promise, Silence, Stillness, Ticking, Tired, Vistas, Waiting, Windows, Wonder | 1 Comment

silent movies

Posted on 22/06/2023 by Nightpoet

“The world is pressed against your fingers,

and you’re still looking for something to hold.”

~ Nitya Prakash ~

000 silent movies 2

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

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Answers, Bare Feet, Breath, Childhood, Dance, Die, Digital Imagery, Eyes, Lips, Live, Moments, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Questions, Shoes, Sidewalks, Silent Movies, Winds, Wonder, Words | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Wonder

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Perception is a clash of mind and eye,

the eye believing what it sees,

the mind seeing what it believes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“To me, words are primarily things to do with your mouth.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We waste days like mad blackbirds

and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk –

sick human smiles wrap around us

like somebody else’s confetti.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I kept always two books in my pocket,

one to read, one to write in.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Your thorns are the best part of you.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“To learn to read is to light a fire.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“There is geometry in the humming of the strings,

there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend

the brightest heaven of invention.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“I am a searcher…I always was…and I still am…

searching for the missing piece.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Creativity – like human life itself – begins in darkness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Perception is a clash of mind and eye,

the eye believing what it sees,

the mind seeing what it believes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow.

The very sun and moon seem taken from us.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly…

not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“To me, words are primarily things to do with your mouth.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The world is pressed against your fingers,

and you’re still looking for something to hold.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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