France
Freezing fogs changes the countryside into a beautiful display Covering the trees and fences in an instant glitter By the wave of a magic wand by some playful fairy Crystal palaces rise from the ground before our very eyes Photo Hugh Ardoin The French landscapes Gallery Hits: 12
Old apartment buildings transformed into makeshift hotel rooms Miniature cubicles, the guests look like oversize angry birds Roosting on the minimalist balconies Gathering unforgettable memories Souvenirs made in China Plastic Eiffel Towers encased in snow-globes Postcards, selfies and rude T-shirts Part-time migrants, pursuing an experiment on inexperience Hugh Ardoin Paris Burning The Gallery Hits: 32
They will come from the sky like dark arrows To sow death deep in the furrows cleft by cluster-bombs The rumble of the armies and the squeal of their armchair-Generals Wearing peaked caps, golden totenkopfs and swastikas Sickening memories of red white and black The strike comes as a whisper from the sky above Small […]
Today, The French will celebrate their Bastille Day In memory of the bourgeois revolution that toppled the Bourbon royalty Rivers of blood to slake a thirst for power rather than a vengeance Now Bastille Day is a military pageant guns tanks and planes In the name of Peace wars are fought In the name of […]
Imagine, the native lonely soul-mates sneaking into this transparent bubble To canoodle under a plastic canopy, squeezing their tepid and humid pale bodies Stuck between a fast train track and the fences and razor wire frontier The thin parapet that separate their desperate embrace in a hopeless place From the dark beyonds of the Sangatte […]
The barren reaches of suburbia are kept in an emotional permafrost A vast no man’s land where a vague green haze of decay hangs in the air Buildings stand and buildings crumble, like mushrooms growing on a giant landfill These are the human reservoirs of the tentacular City of Lights Living beings as small as ants mill […]
The fence it was made of welded steel wire mesh The fishnet stockings of an endless night A gate, almost a safe passage between heaven and hell In the distance the shimmering lights of hope of a walled city Shuttered houses sinking deep in the primeval fears of the invaders But the hordes are here, lanky and […]
On the walls that were erected to protect the barbarians from the vandals Are painted the runes and the cast plaster spells, big designs and giant hopes Hanging on the wall are the pictures of suburban decay dementia The peaked semi-detached houses peer over the wall with their glassy eyes Dreams lie beyond, it lies […]
In this remote and colder part of Hell that lies just beyond the Styx and the Lethe The suburban houses rise from the deep dampness of despair like poisonous mushrooms Waiting for some wayward witch to collect them to concoct a lethal brew They stand altogether tall and small in this decaying urban landscape A pale of […]
Winter when icing fog covers the trees with its white coating Standing alone in the forest of deciduous trees a pine celebrates Christmas The fog moves fast over the landscape like a invading army The horizons have been erased and your vision is an island of reality surrounded by a misty sea No sounds except the […]