French Landscapes
Riding the storm in a fast train Cutting the tormented landscape like a blade While the winds shake the scenery into a drama Who would have thought then in 2010 That we would lose our freedoms in 2020 See them run away like masked thieves in the night Photo Hugh Ardoin The French Landscapes Gallery
In loving memory of my late Mother Beyond the landing place The place where she once lived Photo Hugh Ardoin The French Landscapes Gallery
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
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 […]