French Landscapes
Sitting by the window in a fast train slashing through the landscape Racing against the last lights a race that is already lost It reminds me of Jack Kerouac’s “on the road” scrolls lost in the mail Something irremediable and acutely irretrievable the speed of time running by A flash like a continuous sound barrier […]
Twin bridges cross the same river in an early morning rush The clouds send their mysterious messages up in the sky A signal that something is about to start from this small rivulet Caesar walking into Rome, against the law to fulfill his ambition On the far side, the unrevealed destiny and the hopes will […]
The dark asphalt ribbon marks the divide of the unknown origin Between the white and white of the sullen and empty plains The electricity fairy iron trees shake their frozen skeletons The clouds dissolve into a melancholic drizzle of slush and snow Discolored northern lights slowly weave the future into the past As the train […]
Winter on the run sows his white flakes over the sleeping fields The furrows write long silent letters in their own secret language As a tired dark sky comes to rest awhile on the wire of a cold horizon Carrying the heavy snow packed in worn-out clouds coming apart at the seams The sky is […]
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: 12
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 […]