Allegory
Haphazard encounter with Circumstantial Sisters of Carnival The allegory of Manichaeism and destruction thereof Young beauties profess smiles and inverted smiles The mystery is all yours… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2022 Carnival Gallery
Each gang is a gentlemen’s club in its own right Celebrate the casual dress day Come as you are is the best disguise Masquerade is about remembrance and allegory About the special hot place in hell Waiting for the once-beloved masters
A double allegory about our appetite for life We live inside our own fish-bowl looking out As we watch mesmerized the inescapable fate Of the other beings struggling in their purgatory While we believe that we enjoy our self-made hell Hope is a stone disguised as a lifebuoy… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Allegory of the Gates of Hell When our masters will of us dispose We shall be forthwith delivered With last rites and last ride By an appropriate hearse And our shards in a bin…. Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
The allegory of a greener other side The gates between Heaven and Hell Cherub standing guard in a portakabin Freedom could be on either side But most probably on none The illusion is where we live We are on probation for life… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Symbols of our modern age of pagan fears Allegory of the instruments of discipline The rubber gloves and the yellow lines We leave the red lines to the political high-flyers We commoners live next to the street The cup cap is the offspring of the hubcap An anticipation of a carless Amish-style world The confinement […]
Out of focus human life crossing the bridge at Westminster The allegory of democracy and its distant subject of humanity Bridges made of words and crystal towers Reality seen through a kaleidoscopic telescope They say you’ll find angel powder in the Parliament restrooms In the old days they used to say that London streets were […]
The premonitory lockdown allegory The window dressing of Poshland The Oracle of Delphi back in 2018 No chained nude necromancer In the Greek grotto of legendary fame But tidy rows of safe boxes so discreet Squeaky clean like a Swiss bank vault To stash the monies we never will have We need no Pythia to […]