French Landscapes
A long white shroud spreads over the countryside With wrinkles and creases that follow the contours Of the cataleptic body of a frozen earth gone asleep Under the shiny crystals, like millions of diamonds un-eternal In a long silence only broken by the caw of a raven, And the whistle of a passing train Infinity […]
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: 10
Jack Frost runs wild over a French landscape Sprinkling his glittery crystals over the trees and the waters Icing fogs travel fast and instantly paint the scene into white Lakes are the dark eyes of the Earth contemplating the sky The restrained and deep desire to fly and to be free Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
As the train takes me to distant palaces like a king going in exile Looking at the window beyond my own thoughts and reflection The landscape like some burnt-out damaged black and white film Something the new nerds of today call analog, it was only film then Simple names for simple things needed no expletive […]
An other view of the Calais barbed paradise, the entanglement of the wires of the minds They say that barbarians are at the gate, but wonder on which side We are the prisoners of our own delusions and unaccountable riches We spread the lethal dream of our long gone Eldorados faster than Ebola Some cruel sleight […]
Stuck between the shallow abyss of today and the rolling thunders from above Quietly waiting for the end of all times Long days and endless nights in the dull docklands of Calais In the distance a white smoke escapes from a chimney A new Pope has been elected and is going to cross the Channel […]
The ferry terminal at Calais at the pedestrian-cum-migrant end A jungle of razor wire and miradors, a maze of barbed fences and stern messages A frozen welcome in the shape of a mute epitaph for the thousands who died of the lethal mix of hope and despair The thousands who perished in the Middle Passage […]
Purple clouds over yellow fields in a psychedelic golden hour Purple clouds over yellow fields in a psychedelic golden hour Sitting in a train with my nose squeezed into the camera And the camera squeezed against the window A fast film of time scrolls by like a crazy acceleration of life Catching the seconds in colours […]
Armageddon rehearsal on the road to Calais Is the red brick house is the secret passage to Hell ? Parallel tracks running parallel to the binary Symbol of separation in unity Until the end of all ends reunites us in infinity The reverse marriage vows “till death us do part” Life is a long divorce, […]
The clouds build long walls against a sky made of hazy threats in his retreat the sun leaves golden tracks over the crisp landscape Every fence is a barricade, and you can almost hear de defenders breathe The landscape awakens as a live painting, crouching and eager to slake its thirst at the silvery raindrops […]