River Thames
The barges with Christmas lights And the red-eyed arachnid cranes Look at their reflection in the water I can hear them faintly whisper Am I the tallest of them all ? Night wanderings are prone to reverie Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night-Shift Gallery
The aimless night walks Like a moth attracted by the perils of life And the lethal burn of the candles As the river comes to a standstill At the moment tide and flow will match Reflections of a melting doppelgänger Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Clouds hanging in the summer sky Like a barrage of anti-aircraft balloons Under the trails of an imaginary blitz The River Thames and its changing tides Hardly reflects the blue skies in its muddy face We wait for a shooting star in the middle of the day We wish we could make a wish Photo […]
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 River Thames at low ebb between Battersea and Vauxhall As the sun sets over the West End a stormy night prepares to engulf the city Menacing clouds unfurl in the sky like the standards of a ghoulish army Once a beacon for lost airmen, the Battersea Power Station stands in its new livery Every […]
The sky pattern reflects on the riverside mud River Thames barrier has a mathematical mind of its own It will compute the tidal effect and the river flow and all thing super-human It is a machine with no room for poetry just steel and concrete locks But nature plays around and above laughing at the […]