dreams
In the very early hours before morning The night shift rides back home And the next one is on its way As birds fly above in a Hitchcock mare style Human of the cattle kind sit on a red bus Crushed between tedious chores and worries Their dreams tucked in pocket under a handkerchief Photo […]
All you need is open your eyes Get up early and walk along the path of dawn Bring along your dreams and your hopes Let them rise and drift away on a purple cloud As a passing plane leaves its signature in the sky A threat or a love message Maybe both… Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
A prototype in disguise crossing the bridge We all have dreams hanging above our heads Some will fall and some will survive They are our life-vests when storms come down on us Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
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 […]
Amazing Halloween costumes and makeup in Chinatown The pagan morality of this all We have dreams and we have prayers But at the end of the road All we have is a broken body Lying on the riverside Begging for a penny The Styx is not the Rubicon… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
One step way from virtual reality Young beauty, influencer to be Aspiring climber of the social media ladder Wooing Instagram for a few grams of fame A kingdom where dreams are measured by the pixel We all look for happiness But we call it by its other names… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners […]
Night does not erase the memories of the past It funnels them into our dreams Like the ice cubes in a shaker at a late bar At the hands of a dreamy barista beyond your reach The lights flicker in your newly acquired solitude Memories of those who jumped the parapet haunt you Photo Hugh […]
Two pretty young ones sitting tight on the kerb Watching the tide of revelers go by wave after wave Laying long lifelines to snag a passing Prince Charming Bring your dreams to Carnival, they are your best disguise Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2011 Carnival Gallery
Shapely shapes flow like water in the rivers of your dreams Still the sun shines over the roofs as the valley of the street goes dimmer Dazed by the rhythm of the drums and hazed by vapors of the alcohols We sink like Spanish galleons with the bullion still sparkling in our eyes Photo Hugh […]
Two young black beauties put on a show for the cameras Instant of fun and fame when spirits and hopes run high We fly from dream to dream, and sometimes they crash But we will get up and start again, we never really look down the road Keep a penny for the ferryman… Photo Hugh […]