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The fun armies of the hen parties Double gin tees for everybody We would make peace with ourselves If it wasn’t for the lack of pens and paper Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Young Fashionista takes her latest style for a walk on the wild side As the bemused Christmas stars hang low over the yellow brick road The big city is paved with gold as much as hell with our good intentions But her graze is utterly fixed at some distant horizon Like the warning flash of […]
We carry our dreams in a cardboard box or a fishbowl As they cling to our arching backs in the early morning And in the eerie lights of dawn that is not day nor night Vauxhall Bridge appears in its gown of lights Reclining on its own reflection like a stranded starship Waiting to refuel […]
Young beauty in a hurry at Marble Arch Running the lights on designer jackboots A bright green Bottegga Veneta and cashmere coat Doesn’t compare to a dayglo vest and plastic bag For some of us the Sun still goes around the Earth Everyday we are told, from the edge to stay away … Photo Hugh […]
A bridge with a view at the Brolly Season From the Battersea arches under the Autumn squalls The colors are here but romanticism gone The purpose of the rain was to offer a shelter An arm to share and small talk or more Now we are all criminals in the waiting In a society that […]
A few steps away from Hyde Park’s Speakers Corner Under the august protection of Marble Arch A varied crowd sings and claims its many beliefs Staying Woke of professing love to New King Charles In rubber gloves and merchandising stuff Identity has become a vague word… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Early birds claim more than the worm Practicing on a cold early morning at Vauxhall Bridge Pigeons dream, as they fly in a Hitchcock remake, That one day soon they will rule While the last of the human breed Shall sit alone on the road in a pool of glue Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates […]
Sitting at the window sill of the passing seasons We see the wind chasing the rainy squalls Whirling up the dead leaves into funeral pyres Autumn soon will wave its goodbye clouds And winter will step on the barren lands in its icy boot Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Standing on his royal carriage The doggie has a field day Visiting London Chinatown From this vantage point Barking orders at his obedient servants To steer clear from those speciality restaurants Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Under the towering chimney of Tate Modern power station of arts The London beach appears at the River Thames’ low ebbs Aficionados gather here on Saturday nights to watch the fire-eaters Would-be daredevils provoking Saint Paul’s pregnant dome… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night-Shift Gallery