Night shift
It will take more than plastic fangs and sleepless nights To claw back the freedoms stolen overnight By the grand Priests of the Great Reset And their quack sadistic statistics minions Pitchforks and torches are the solution Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Meeting the fairies point blank We are now warned about the dangers of living No more fun about fear, it has become a state monopoly So long to the pagan stuff like Halloween and Santa Claus And ,God forbid, no more Guy Fawkes and his Parliament lore… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
The lapis-lazuli moment past sunset On a perfectly windless day at high tide The River Thames is a mirror of golds and indigo In its Christmas tree livery, the Albert bridge Seems in charge of an important connection Between the the shores of Chelsea and Battersea Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night-Shift Gallery
The Electricity Fairy plays her mischievous games Battersea Power Station changed into a camp for the rich The illusion of power with a luminous severed head Power has to come from somewhere from work of the many And bright ideas can only come from a head attached to a body However powerful and enlightened the […]
Heavy lorries emerge suddenly from the thick fog In a halo of lights, UFO’s racing on a third kind encounter Gliding on the shining wet tarmac with a muffled swoosh They disappear as they came in the blink of an eye While the street lights hover high like a mother-ship, waiting… Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
In the past lively times of London nights When nighthawks and owls would flock together Scantily dressed flame eaters that came from the sea Would perform self immolation rituals for a penny or less Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
The moment the sky will turn to black Ripples of clouds spread in the sky The river quickly ebbs to its half-tide Lights play streaming Van Goghs’ on the water While the distant rumble is the heartbeat of the city Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night-Shift Gallery
Music and lights on a hot Guangzhou monsoon night Silhouettes like Chinese shadow cutouts move away Bright neon lights befriend the traditional lanterns Billboards tout and shout the Orient Express American Dream Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
Street vendor selling the high-calorie fares Ideal diet when you are leaving the beach And you are not planning to come tomorrow The heat of the night, the legendary mosaic pavement The sweetness of a midsummer dream… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery
Leaving Oxford Street the legend on wheels takes a turn into Soho A Mustang of the first generation of Ford’s famous pony-cars Named after a quarter-mile stud or a wartime fighter aircraft And the street is dotted with chewed out gums like venomous shrooms All this minute history held in a single fold of a […]