Hell
The last heavenly glimpse before the fall As the earth breaks open under my feet I can see the light and I can see the bright flames The soft places in hell where you can rest your broken head On smooth and soft pillows not really made of angel’s feathers Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting […]
Standing in the middle of the road against the light A young black goddess shakes her finger at the sunset Her glasses are like two dark and threatening stars Another sip at her strange brew and she will start spewing fire The angels cast into hell with the bird-footed Lilith never came back They probably […]
Black angels in white came swooping from the skies To bring solace among the troubled souls of masquerade A forlorn place where revelers danced and tranced to forget But the earthly delights went unseen to the closed eyes The deaf and the dumbed danced away in beautiful ignorance Who needs redemption when hell beckons Photo […]
A vicar walks his old dog in the London mews The romantic scene comes with some warnings The dog looks like one of the hounds of Apocalypse A sign on a closed door cautions about deep excavations Could this possibly be Hell ? It was a cold and sunny day… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners […]
In the middle of the winter nights here stands the gate Where pleasure meets fear to dissipate the ennui of life Strong sensations as a prelude to a hell let loose, smoke and mirrors But nothing compares to the real thing When there is no way back… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
All the earthly goodies, cold champagne is like ice on fire and a smile to beckon From the gates of Eden you can see the spiralling staircase of Hell And through the billowing smoke the flames of the bonfires burning below Running blind and empty on the winding road to your destiny You will reach […]
The green worms of a New Arrakis are waiting for the blue-eyed riders Resting in the Southern pastures until the thumping of the rush-hour call We dream in an lazy daydream stream, a dull landscape of industrial wastes Civilization was here long ago it self-destroyed along the spice’s silvery lines The blue-eyed zombies have taken […]