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not quite mouthfuls

Posted on 31/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“And I thought to myself how those fast little articles

forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers,

treasure every inch of their nymphancy.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breasts, Choirs, Copses, Creeks, Demoiselles, Fabric, Forests, Lullabies, Moths, Mouthfuls, Nipples, Nymphs, Onanistic, Orgasms, Paris, Patterns, Photography, Pirouettes, Poetry, Ravens, Spiders, Street Art, Sylphs, Webs, Woods | 1 Comment

corner

Posted on 30/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“There is only one corner of the universe you can

be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

~ Aldous Huxley ~

Photo of a ceramic creation by Thierry Basile taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Arc, Area, Bend, Control, Corner, Cranny, Curve, District, Dominate, Escape, Kick, Monopolize, Nook, Painted, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Plight, Poetry, Predicament, Region, Tight Spot | 1 Comment

innocence

Posted on 29/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Innocence crafts its own demise.”

~ F.T. McKinstry ~

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Innocence, Life, Night, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry | 1 Comment

through the looking glass

Posted on 28/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as

six impossible things before breakfast.”

~ Lewis Carroll ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alice, Digital Imagery, Distortions, Face, Inaccuracies, Looking Glass, Mirror, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Reality, Truth | 1 Comment

impressions

Posted on 27/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Everything that we experience every day

leaves a long-lasting impression.”

~ Pharrell Williams ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Contemplations, Dreams, Fantasies, Hallucinations, Happenstances, Impressions, Memories, Nightmares, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Visions, Wine | 1 Comment

le ballet de l’équilibre

Posted on 26/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.”

~ Olen Steinhauer ~

Photo taken in September 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acrobatics, Balance, Ballet, Cerebral, Dance, Equilibrium, Life, Net, Opposites, Perspective, Photography, Pirouette, Poetry, Stage, Terpsichore, Tip Toe | 2 Comments

cages

Posted on 25/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

~ Virginia Woolf ~

Photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Addictions, Cages, Death, Deception, Delusion, Emotions, Freedom, Hunger, Imperfection, Irrationality, Labyrinth, Life, Logic, Obsessions, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Promises, Truths | 1 Comment

peace

Posted on 24/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

~ George Carlin ~

Photo taken in March 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Avarice, Awareness, Compassion, Death, Emotions, Fanatics, Future, Greed, History, Life, Love, Mercy, Nightmare, Past, Peace, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Self-Aggrandizement, Selfishness, War, Wealth, Weapons | 1 Comment

light shines down

Posted on 23/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”

~ Anaïs Nin ~

Photo taken in February 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Christening, Darkness, Dreams, Glistening, Hide, Horrors, Light, Lips, Listening, Lovers, Passions, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Prophesied, Screams, Shine | 1 Comment

hamster wheel

Posted on 20/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

~ Bob Dylan ~

Photo of street art by Kai taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Awareness, Circles, Compassion, Creativity, Death, Gears, Hamster Wheel, Human, Life, Money, Morality, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Profit, Prosperity, Rat Race, Street Art, The Running Man, Time, Wheels | 1 Comment

dessama

Posted on 19/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

Photo taken in Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Body, Darkness, Death, Embrace, Forgotten, Infirm, Kiss, Life, Old, Pain, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shroud, Suffering, Time | 1 Comment

the great silence

Posted on 18/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

~ Marcus Zusak ~

Photo of street art by HeartCraft taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Darkness, Death, Emotions, Heart, Life, Love, Oblivion, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Plea, Poetry, Shadows, Silence, Street Art, Time | 1 Comment

fraise

Posted on 17/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Strawberry fields forever…”

~ John Lennon ~

Photo taken in October 2018.

Categories: Philosophy, Photography | Tags: Beauty, Breasts, Cheeks, Crimson, Dancing, Desire, Emotions, Erotica, Eyes, Fingers, Fire, Fountain, Fraise, Heart, Lea, Lips, Love, Nectar, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Rosy, Secrets, Sex, Stomach, Strawberry, Thirst, Valley | 1 Comment

as civilization crumbles

Posted on 16/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

~ Livy ~

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Annihilation, Change, Civilization, Crumble, Darkness, Death, Decay, Dust, Future, History, Life, Memories, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ruins, Self-Aggrandizement, Shadows, Time, Weeds | 1 Comment

white snow

Posted on 15/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Photo taken in the mid 1980’s.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Black, Darkness, Death, Dreams, Eyes, Onyx, Photography, Poetry, Port, Sailors, Ships, Skies, Snow, Stars, White | 1 Comment

seven deadly sins

Posted on 14/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes

but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth,

poetry might never have been born.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

Photo taken January 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bed, Emotions, Eyes, Fingers, Grass, Green, Life, Love, Lust, Morning, Nights, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sex, Sins, Smiles | 1 Comment

in awe of science

Posted on 13/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Science has made us gods

even before we are worthy of being men.”

~ Jean Rostand ~

Photo taken in March 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Acid Rain, Carrots, Door, Edge, Evidence, Hat, Keys, Life, Photography, Pocket, Poetry, Rabbit, Rain, Science, Scissors, Shining, Smiling, Stars | 1 Comment

in the key of come hither

Posted on 12/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

~ Vironika Tugaleva ~

Photo taken in Paris in September 2017.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Body, Chord, Come Hither, Dance, Darkness, Desire, Emotions, Erotica, Fingers, Flesh, Heart, Key, Love, Music, Pantomime, Paris, Passion, Photography, Poetry, Risqué, Sex, Soul, Symphony, Terpsichore, Tongue, Winter | 1 Comment

flou

Posted on 11/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“Don’t lose who you are in the blur of the stars.

Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing.”

~ Jessie J. ~

Photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blink, Blur, Death, Drown, Eyes, Life, Paris, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Ride, Roller Rink, Rollercoaster, Shoulder, Sink, Speed Of Life, Street Art, Swim, Think | 1 Comment

wooden heart

Posted on 10/01/2026 by Nightpoet

“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Photo taken in October 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Broken, Curse, Emotion, Heart, History, Life, Love, Memories, Passion, Past, Photography, Poetry, Talisman, Tattered, Time, Token, Torn, Trees, Wooden Heart | 2 Comments

“And I thought to myself how those fast little articles

forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers,

treasure every inch of their nymphancy.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“There is only one corner of the universe you can

be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Innocence crafts its own demise.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as

six impossible things before breakfast.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Everything that we experience every day

leaves a long-lasting impression.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“When you possess light within, you see it externally.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“They said, congratulations you got what it takes.

They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Strawberry fields forever…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“We can endure neither our vices

nor the remedies needed to cure them.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Blow, blow, thou Winter Wind,

Thou art not so unkind, as Man’s Ingratitude…”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes

but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth,

poetry might never have been born.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Science has made us gods

even before we are worthy of being men.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Our work is not to become unique. We are unique.

Our work is to unleash our sense of adventure

and to allow the inner whisper that says

“come hither” to be reason enough to go.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Don’t lose who you are in the blur of the stars.

Seeing is deceiving, dreaming is believing.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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