Blackfriars Bridge
Double decker speeding over the river Time is always a matter of life and death We did away with the ferryman and the penny But the Styx and the Lethe still flow down below The Double Decker Fantasy Over Blackfriars Bridge Spellbound, I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Every day at the Southbank shores Andy comes to meet his feather’d flock He brings supper and his incredible warmth Food of choice for the hungry birds An encrypted conversation that needs no words The eyes do all the talk with a few occasional whispers Moments come and moments go With the river’s endless flow […]
The London Night Shift wanderings A bridge too far in allegorical meaning Blackfriars Bridge going South, literally Under the reflections of bright towers of night Sodium vapor lamps are no red lights The district is strict Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Freedom comes in many different shapes The one-way unipolar thought process Shall lead you from one fear to another To finally beg for any kind of slavery There is no light after the darkness The allegory of utopia Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Blackfriars Bridge by night Going purple with episcopal dreams A red double-decker hurries across the river Taking his load of dazed workers to distant Peckham And London slips into her evening gown To strut the streets in her tireless quest Luring the gawker she calls Milord To the luxury treat of a fish and chips […]
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
Lost my Ark on a rainy diluvian night Could not find the last couple of wild animals But the lights shone in the night from their high pedestals Like hungry gallows waiting for the wicked and the forlorn The green lights shone as a promise of a red light beyond The lonely hearts club band […]