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Riders in a rainless storm Saturday Night Fever In Style The giant Trojan white trike With hundreds of horses within Gliding past a bemused crowd Photo Hugh Ardoin The Fast and Curious Gallery
We shed the feathers of our magic childhood Like molting birds now unable to fly Wingless grounded creatures walking the line We only cross the Rubicons we have Keeping clear of the pavement lines We are children locked in an ageing shell A beauty passes before our eyes Clocks will stop their race for a […]
A sunny summer day in Fitzrovia Watching eternity go by from the sidelines of life A bicycle passes slowly between past and future A pretty girl on the other shore ready to dive into her phone How deep is the sea and how cool is the water ? Some Leviathan sleeping below … Photo Hugh […]
The acronym is the secret enemy Where is the army and what are the submarines doing ? The learning curve going straight on Vauxhall Bridge Words have many meanings and driving under influence Under the very eyes of the Miss is an unforgivable offence The Tower of Babel is left fuming… Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
The fuzz waiting for the odd illegal cyclist and other wheeled blighters A bright new world is shining on the other side of a better tomorrow Our masters have set their priorities reading 1984 like it was a manual When will we trust citizens to be citizens and no longer treat them as underage adults […]
The beauty and the mini-beast I suppose they call it a lap dog of luxury Will get a raincoat from Burberry For the dog days of summer never last They say the winter will be cold… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
How long does it take to grow a heart of stone This is a matter for political science Our society is willfully failing itself As it seems that our beloved masters Who now vie for the highest armchair Only know how to beat the drums of war Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
A barge sleeps on the riverbed holding its secret load As the Thames slowly sheds the last drops of the night The morning is made of cold air and mist Winter still sits on the shores biding its time Birds call their bird names and the city stirs The beginning of a new day Rewinding […]
The Tower of Babel sits still on the other shore But as all the clocks now seem to run out of time We hear in the distance the rumble of war machines The echo of men’s folly leading their sheep to the slaughter Babel turns into Mordor in a bridge too far allegory And the […]
Self-defeating prophecies trending now As one fear gets bigger to chase the other Nemesis of the year is a crushed beer can Speaks more than a thousand tabloids The bigger the lie the sweeter the profit And jet-setters surf the waves they make As they conjure new stock market storms Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates […]