River Thames
Predawn stroll along the River Thames Looking for the perfect light to fit my mood A romantic setting to to dump my spleen And the tide rose to the brim of my eyes As the rain seeped deep inside to drench my bones And the sky threw a dash of pink between two squalls Photo […]
A view from a bridge on a stormy day As clouds weave menacing shapes in the sky And the sun sends cryptic warnings At the tips of its long fingers of light Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
Double decker speeding over the river Time is always a matter of life and death We did away with the ferryman and the penny But the Styx and the Lethe still flow down below The Double Decker Fantasy Over Blackfriars Bridge Spellbound, I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
The lull of all things When the waters of River Thames Reach the point of no return of their low ebb Like a petrified Narcissus the city drowns in its own reflection While the widows of our umpteen deaths cry a river Wailing sirens at the dusk of our lives Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban […]
Very early morning walk Wading in the blue and purple colors Before morning becomes morning River Thames at high tide is quiet Like a sea before a storm that will never come And the heliport has turned its lights on For the well-off commuters to fly to their golf Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift […]
Looking West from the Millennium footbridge beyond the suspended Blackfriars station The sky is on fire like a Guy Fawkes dream jarred between leaded clouds and Westminster The rock, the hard place and the narrow escape We have seen our freedoms disappearing over the horizon Like a sunset but without a spark of fire Hunched […]
We are not immune to poetry We shall learn to peel our eyes And unplug our ears From the yoke of the Philistine AI Throw the likes and follows into the River Thames Let them drown, they are our sorrows Let them scream their hypocrite mantra I respect you ! Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban […]
The wake of the ships on the river at low ebb Make ripples of visual deception on the mirror reflection An attempt at James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake illustration The abstract poetry of life is a fairy wand That casts a spell on our troubled hearts A grace period in the slow passing of time Photo […]
Five in the morning wanderings along the Thames River The full moon plays the Halloween star in the clouds Tin airplanes with tiny lights so small in the night While the sun is still tucked in bed, fast asleep A few joggers and the odd insomniac walking his dog And here I am, walking my […]
Rare occurrences of colorful predawn phenomena Real colors of a hazy morning just before dawn A cotton candy world that will only last a few minutes Camera adjustments were not obvious… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery