Fantasy
Taking the knee for another minute of silence The Black Lives Matter protest yesterday in London Huge, angry and mixed crowd Will the message get through Beyond the social distancing dystopian fantasy Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
Fantasy heroes are looking for a new role Real heroes have been sidelined for the sofa kind We are living strange times when fear is elevated to a virtue A very symbolic painting of Batman made of gathered people Photo Hugh Ardoin The Window Dressing Gallery
Caught in the commotion of the milling crowd In the darkened alleys of a Guangzhou shopping mall A young beauty shines in her red wedding dress Just a glimpse, like a press scoop, a minute fantasy Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Appearing at the River Thames shores near the barrier lock Spiraling towers that I imagine as Tolkien’s Rivendell Castle The elven king’s last refuge stands here shining under heavy skies We are part of our fantasy when we make pictures with one eye closed We wake when the shutter snaps to a CCTV world where […]
The music rigs inch their way along Chepstow, booming and blaring Frenzied crowds mill around as the showgirls swiftly cut their way They are trailed by a wake of white feathers like stratospheric ships Wearing a few inches of cloth and rivers of rhinestones Like mermaids in this human sea, they will lure the homesick […]
Some alien astronomer, light years away, looking through his telescope May wonder, like we once did, what is this large red spot on this strange planet The part of the fantasy an the call from space to discover forgotten worlds Flying in the time-warps of interstellar void, to visit the Pyramids and the great Sahara […]