Gawkers
A Shooting Star among the gawkers You wonder why you never have the time To cast the wish before all light is gone Blame it on your dazzled eyes Old age or the spirits of sloe gin Maybe all of them altogether… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
The steady flow of gawkers and loitering beings Ebbs slowly down Charing Cross Avenue Down to Trafalgar Square with no further aim But to let Saturday Night run on empty Between the waves of hunched backs A sudden Mona Lisa apparition To momentarily kick our empty hearts Further down the avenue… Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
Young beauty cycling in London Fashionista on wheels around the corner For the pleasure of gawkers But what else do we have on the dull city days ? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Standing out in the flow of passersby and gawkers Lost and fond an elusive sublime silhouette The poet shall spill his verse about a passing beauty In this world of digital identity our fingers must never touch… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Street photography in Poshland is like big game hunting From the windows of Harrods’ to Harvey Nichols’ Where gawkers and glitter-blingers meet Like the jungle beasts at the watering holes Carefully arranged along their pecking order Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
In a world of iconoclastic subculture Fake news and false flags are the fodder Thrown in pasture to the gullibles and gawkers All we need is the emperor’s new clothes To be booked by the boys in blue For some alleged indecent exposure The definition of decency lies in the hands of the handlers The […]
Chepstow road is the catwalk where divas flow Measuring their power by the lenses and the gawkers Playing show-stoppers and twerk fire-starters A smile, a wink and some shake to cheer the crowds The government and the mayor blinded by their fears Held hostage to their polling ambitions Will break any possible tradition We cannot […]
The show must go on as the red hordes surround the chariot Rounding up the gawkers to the dancehall pushing the flyers Irresistible glances and the occasional smile to lift the spirits Tomorrow is just a faint promise beyond all the music and lights Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Under the mottled shadow of a hot summer day A twerking girl gets a helping hand from a friend While all the gawkers get to caress with the eyes Only a selected few will get the full body-body treat Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The pre-olympian goddesses in a combat Using their most lethal weapons to prove the fairest Oglers and gawkers beware of the collateral damage Who rules the universe today may meet the fate of Uranus His body parts cast in rage into the sea Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery