Allegory
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 Banana Box the archive of staple Described as the expendable file cabinet Filing of the unforgettable into oblivion The X Files allegory as a fig-leaf for reality We have the era we deserve Karma may come later… Photo Hugh Ardoin At Street Level Gallery
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 […]