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Punk is not dead and nelson stands on his column Two worlds meet with the cry of an electric guitar Talent must be heard on the street theaters are bedrooms Revolution may grow old but it never sleeps Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
All that glitters is not gold Shall we settle for platinum or diamonds In the metoo woke world of nowadays I imagine wolf-skinned lawyers hunting in packs Fifty years from now when embers will have all died Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
A bridge is the beginning of a journey Over a river bigger than the Rubicon But it is the symbol that matters not the water The early morning on Chelsea Bridge Watching the commuters hauled in The joggers running like zombies Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
All we need to kick-start this dead-looking New Year Is a young rebel’s smile and twinkling eyes To make the Molotov, first you empty the bottles We are all here today, with a passionate headache Now we have to find the good cause to rock the year… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
The dire times our brave leaders have steered us in From one fear of Charybdis to that of Scylla Social distancing in a double decker society Down to the festive menu distance keeps its values So we are deemed jolly and spoilt Caviar and lobster can wait… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
The busy Knightsbridge winter nights Double deckers like big Santas delivering his presents Or giant aquariums on wheels taking fish for one tank to another While a young passerby flaunts her colorful beauty and freedom Life is a psychedelic postcard the trip starts with the stamp Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Every morning is a new beginning We do not need to wait for a whole year to start again A symbolic early morning view of London from Battersea Park Looking East to see the rising sun in a palette of pinks and purple Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
A prayer, a riddle, a warning or a resolution Or just a wish to keep this New Year clean It evokes the hopes we entrust to the new Pretending to ignore the burdens of our past Progress comes from acknowledgement of our past mistakes Wallowing in the laurels of our Pyrrhic victories is the other […]
I wish you all viewers and friends a Happy New Year A new year would not be complete without the good resolutions I found the 2022 motto at the back of the statue’s pedestal Of the Bomber Command Monument in Green Park Words of Pericles (495 – 429 BC) about Freedom Bombing may not seem the […]
The last Notting Hill Carnival cherished memories of 2019 In the wake of the Grenfell tragedy and the Windrush shame There are no restrictions for Winter Wonderland and pay as go festivals The racist murder of Kelso Cochrane is segregated from the collective memory And Oswald Mosley is not only confined to the Point Counterpoint […]