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The walks are all is left in London A world divided in essentials and expendables We push or pull our meek lives aimlessly Listening to the glistening on the telly Watching the web influencers flaunt their botox bodies As bubbles of champagne pop in the background Don’t worry, be happy… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates […]
Night is the realm of the dream The propitious escape from the straitjacket of reality Beyond the circles of light, darkness is the ultimate refuge Where the unknown, the unseen and the unmentionable Conspire about their next flight to the stars And in the distance, across the river and its drifting mists Lights and cranes […]
Stormy skies are a giant dramatic canvas Where the wind and rain paint the clouds in many shades of grey And in this open air museum of life, we must endure the drizzle To watch mesmerized the great artist that nature is, brush in hand An infinite canvas where planes strive to land their cargo […]
And the winner is… The marketing geniuses strike again More than we really wish to know Evian launches the recycled water From human containers ? All natural, I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin At Street Level Gallery
After premonition comes cognition We live through strange times indeed Where marketing geniuses show their talent We just wonder if this is a publicity or a warning… Photo Hugh Ardoin At Street Level Gallery
Marketing is the hungry predator Our locked lives cannot wait To go spend our last credit For the red-soled killer shoes Something to die for I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
Night does not erase the memories of the past It funnels them into our dreams Like the ice cubes in a shaker at a late bar At the hands of a dreamy barista beyond your reach The lights flicker in your newly acquired solitude Memories of those who jumped the parapet haunt you Photo Hugh […]
And the Thames it has flowed for aeons It saw the Fire and it slaked the Plague And weathered the Blitz wave after wave But in the history of the City of London Never was a healthy population quarantined All economic activity brought to a standstill Who is king in this realm of fears ? […]
No need to be a fashion guru to tell This is not London today Social distancing destroyed socializing For the many it was lockdown and curfews Except for the happy few Self-inflicted pain is the new standard Fear mongering does wonders Back in 2011 who would have imagined That it would be so easy to […]
On the musings of a confined soul The Millennium bridge is getting old Under the passerby feet all going nowhere And on the Southern shore stands a shadow The power station of the arts Also known as the Tate Modern Getting old and nothing to show And to reverse Churchill’s famous quote I wonder how […]