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From my new Londoners Un-Portrait Gallery The rear-view mirror looking forward Getting used to the regression In the dull post Christmas days Observing the proud Londoners Parading their Christmas presents King’s Road is no match to the Emperor’s Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
The buzzing London Nightlife now reduced to a trickle Taking the Chanel for a night ride in the city A young Asian couple enjoys the quiet Saturday evening Soho is but a shadow of itself under the boot of the fear-mongers Slow death is now the new normal according to the woke jargon Photo Hugh […]
The Great Reset of all defundings New military police inspired Red Caps Patrolling under the alias of ‘My Local Bobby’ The question is where have the real bobbies gone And to whom this new privatized police answers beyond the purpose of taxes the pay as you go security Consequences of austerity from NHS to Police […]
Sunrise over the City of London City Skyline As much as the Tarpeian rock lies next to the Capitol The morning lights shine like a funeral pyre A graveyard of towers raised to the vanity of temporal fortunes Rulers of our times are dinosaurs of the future But what bones do the Tyrannosaurus Rex in […]
There is no bridge too far And no distance too long To tie the knot over the troubled waters The Millennium Bridge is the minimal symbol Of a longevity that love always bestow at the beginning May the happiness of that moment outlast the yellowing of a photograph Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
A cult of wheeled angels to replace the winged ones Rebellion needs knuckleheads and symbols of an inglorious past Lest we forget what the torches and black white red flags parades brought No harm is meant by the many, but ignorance of history is a slippery slope When Ministers of state in Germany hold torch-lit […]
Like a David Bowie crash-landed from his starship The redhead man who fell to Earth Standing by the corner poised for his next move The sign in the window says Hello Holborn But falls short of saying welcome A world frozen in the fears of its time Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Beyond the mysterious, evolution has meandering ways Since the Swedish born Majbritt Morrison incident back in 1958 When an mixed couple stirred the mainstream white gangs She was arrested for standing her ground against teddy boy mob attack Author of best seller “Jungle West 11” married to Raymond Morrisson Jamaican artist painter who later became […]
We need wheels to go back in time Walking over a sunbeam along the avenues The tightrope of our wavering memories Young beauties looking for an electric adventure Time now runs faster than our lives We need machines to catch-up Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Early morning is for aficionados only Whatever your attire who cares ? Joggers check their heartbeat Cyclists bend over the handlebars Dog walkers bribe their pets with treats And for a minute the originals own the world Until the ambulance comes to take them away Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery