Destiny
The receiving end of society Get your tickets and passes ready Come aboard the bus of your dim destiny Riding to toil and back to sleep The digging machine of time Cuts long deep furrows in our life line Everyday somebody will get on the wrong bus Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
The 2021 Christmas Eve Mood Sabre rattling and lockdown shouting We are the sitting ducks of destiny Next step is armored face masks In a world of virtual reality Real immunity is a shot of hot espresso coffee Photo Hugh Ardoin The Street Level Gallery
Before the night closes shop It has so many errands to run To arrange for lovers to meet And dig the despair of the lonely ever deeper Sleepless Saturday NIghts are for the wanderers Cameras around the neck like the noose of an abrupt end Following the footsteps of this clueless destiny Who follows us […]
Wisdom in the litter of the demonstrations Evolution of humanity into a sheepish herd Extinction shall hit us like the lemmings But who will witness the transformation As we hide our faces and fears under paper bags That we call masks… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
As the pandemic masquerade goes on The waltz of masks and death Rising from the underworld As the IQ-gifted of the world Profess about the unknown And offer immunity if not immortality As destiny dances away The clock ticks and tok’s Pet Hates Toys rests in the window Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
The long African journeys start at dusk Taking advantage of cooler yet still hot times Dimly lit machines hit the road in a flurry Destiny stands on the roadside to hike a ride It will leave you at a crossing or in a bend Or it will follow you to your destination Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Young black beauty eager to learn the mystery of her life reading The fascination that prescience exerts like the oracles of old The urge to learn what is written on the wall of our destiny What it does not tell is how to navigate the shoals of the rivers of life Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
A pretty young thing smiles with her eyes Staring into the cold mirror of the lens As if there was some kind of soul inside But it is just an arresting net for fragments of time Meanwhile, her friend looks intently at the girl behind Emotions dance like fireflies in the air, almost tangible While […]
The crowd is like the sea in its changing tides The sidelines of the show are like the shores Where jetsam and flotsam meet in their haphazard destiny Whales and whitebait become beached at some point in time Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Smartphone zombies flow in and out of Tottenham Court Station A cool hipster posing and puffing on a designer scooter All dressed up, waiting for nothing but to be noticed Time and fame are fickle while we are swept away by our destiny Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery