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First Strike over Paddington station View from an empty hotel room The little bear has left in a hurry There’s only me to bear with me at the window sill And the planes drawing crazy runes in the darkening skies The blitz from the past is no match for today’s fears Probably because new generations […]
Deserted high streets at the low ebb of the tides of fear London Souvenirs of the Twenties are just garbled memories And the wry humor of Bowen and Blackmore May wrench a smile from the rare passerby Who dares to venture in the dangerous outdoors Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Summers of the past when buyers roamed the London streets free Two young shoppers out of steam but smoking Enjoy some respite for their sore feet in the shop till you drop frenzy Nowadays, masked fashion victims get sore fingers from web orders Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Young Black Beauty struts her strut along the Mayfair streets Armies at her command stand to attention in the windows Trooping the Color’s two hundred and sixty years are numbering A new parade is needed to make up for a lost Carnival Common wealth has long been hoarded by the few Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
We follow the prophets of our times But since men have been granted civilization Religion has passed through many different hands The same primeval mythology translated and adapted Let’s bring the accused at the trial of our faltering memory The spruce, pine or fir who masqueraded as the Christmas tree The plaintiff is the palm […]
Fate is just a prearranged coincidence Do not trust the writing on the road It has nothing to do with that one on the wall The red bus was looking for a wild target Maybe in today’s ephemeral language The red bus is about to cross the red line But the necromancers were too busy […]
Dreams always seem better than reality Like grass is always greener on the other side Sometimes words of past wisdom can be proven wrong On an early morning a decade away Young redhead beauty appears out of the blue Crossing the Rubicon I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Wanderings around London and suburbia Some places seem to be out of time’s reach Park View Dinos hairdressing for men Jurassic park haircut for all extinct species Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
The writing was on the wall in 2010 Life is too short for a bad shot But the meaning now jumps to the eye And from the eye to the brain Numb like needles and pains Wisdom is cheap since we have AI I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin At Street Level Gallery
The Christmas Spirit stroll on Piccadilly Where the endemic wildlife clambers down the Christmas tree We are children at heart but we hide our soft spot under a social armor Things would be better if we slowly opened- up like an advent calendar But the master-rattlers they ordered new sabres for Christmas Santa may deliver […]