Chelsea Bridge
Continental breakfast at Chelsea Bridge Morning comes under a sunset disguise Such are plays of words and the twist of history The power station is left without power To house the last London glitterati Tarpeian rock and Capitol meet By the cats and dogs shelter… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
Early morning in a red sunset disguise We come to greet the sun at the top of a bridge Or spill our bile at the runaway time The greater picture of life comes without caption And the human tide takes its daily migration To appease the gods, masters, or both… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban […]
Surrealist pink and blue dawn at Chelsea Bridge The sun has been playing with fire and set the clouds aflame A pink airplane prepares the skies for a bright new day Brave new world full of words ensconced between closed pages While the commuters of the morning shift stay glued to their screens Writing essentially […]
The rising sun hazy moment on Chelsea Bridge The commuter tide is just rising And the sun, almost palpable yet so distant red globe Slowly rises like a lantern in the morning mist Iron beanstalks grow from their reflection in the water Towers standing erect in their wanton nakedness To celebrate their master’s ephemeral might […]
Stormy morning on Chelsea Bridge The odd lost cloud chased away from the pack Beautiful differences will lead to our exclusion The river lays its silver bed for the fish and mermaid Locked in a distant tower a sad Princess watches from a window As wanton winds rise and scatter her fairy daydream Photo Hugh […]
The fading day hangs to the lazy clouds Mesmerized by their reflection in the river Time lies still in a narcissistic spell Looking into the water you may see a smile Like the welcome call from a watery grave But ripples change the smile into a sneer You wake from the daydream As time quickly […]
A bridge is the beginning of a journey Over a river bigger than the Rubicon But it is the symbol that matters not the water The early morning on Chelsea Bridge Watching the commuters hauled in The joggers running like zombies Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
Winter wanderings on the bridges over River Thames In a cold golden sky, planes wage imaginary wars Following the adage that departure is a lesser form of death We have been slammed with departure restrictions until further notice Under a threat of something worse than death Human imagination is fathomless In its obsessive quest for […]
Buses with numbers unload the anonymous masses Workers going to work in the early morning And they will toil away until the evening Commuting back and forth Like the tides that move the River Thames The masters say bots will bring freedom It sounds like ugly slogans of a not so distant past We tend […]
Cold and Crisp early morning View from the Chelsea Bridge The Battersea Power Station In its new luxury livery And glass and steel vanity towers Make up for the gold and blue skyline While cranes attend the newborn babies Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery