Estates of Emergency
Every street tells a story The chasm grows wider by the day From fear to hunger and back While the silver spoons are busy Feeding the cannons Until you can’t tell heads from tails Flipside only… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Early birds claim more than the worm Practicing on a cold early morning at Vauxhall Bridge Pigeons dream, as they fly in a Hitchcock remake, That one day soon they will rule While the last of the human breed Shall sit alone on the road in a pool of glue Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates […]
A poet’s wandering wonders in London’s Autumn scapes The wonderful decay of the dying leaves on the pavement A doe-eyed beauty strolling on long legs along the kerb Homeless left for dead on the sidelines Whether you are spreading fears, self-glued on the street Or lighter than air, running free from the stalkers The one-eyed […]
It is said that future and past shall never meet Like one generation watches the other fall From the top of the high cliff of hopes Read and write speed is the essence of the digital realm All things virtual offer a solution in some parallel world Yet it is the bridge that is missing […]
Early morning between fog and storm The commuters follow their master’s orders Like lemmings rushing to their inescapable fate Crossing the Grosvenor Bridge in the wee hours Over the River Thames and the less known Bourne To disgorge into the hungry underground or the fire-red buses Everyday is an emergency… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates […]
The Tooth Fairy strives on the Sweet American Dream Business open 24/7 at the state sponsored candy shop Making sure that your smile shall decay while you sleep Such is the painful allegory of our modern times Yet no Chaplin in sight to show the flaws of our Great Reset Dictators Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
Skimming over the lazy River Thames A police patrol boat rushes to an emergency Blue lights in the night At the wail of a siren The iron mermaid to the rescue Of a man overboard Or some hapless drunken sailor Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Westminster to Whitehall and back The Naughty Bus takes you to the underworld tour Walking distance for the proles, but sleaze needs ease Not the same league Yet makers and breakers meet halfway down Business as usual… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Not a tongue in cheek allegory A mere future announcement Tomorrow’s only motto The writing is on the bus Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
In the dire times of penury that befall us One single horseman shall suffice To announce the dawning of apocalypse Our high expectations of brighter tomorrows Under the itch of a green thumb on the red button… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery