London Waterloo bridge at low ebb Venturing on the muddy shores Lovers take selfies at the light show Life is a blank-addressed postcard That never returns to sender You probably wish it was a golden retriever… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Oedipus and the Sphynx remake Under the auspices of Eros (mind the arrows) Young beauties indulge in selfies They believe that the still image Will stop the course of time But the answer to the sphinx riddle Will not turn back the clocks of time Enjoy the precious minutes of your youth Because they’ll soon […]
Waiting for the Divine Wind in London Chinatown The mask may fly and the skirts like kites rise to the sky Young beauties playing with selfies in the night We dream like the slugs we are crawling along the streets Leaving long dry shimmering telltale tracks Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Young beauties disrupt the traffic on Piccadilly In the kingdom of virtual reality and selfies Every street is a catwalk for overnight celebrities And bestseller biographies will be at pains To even reach the lofty two hundred and eighty We are drowning in oceans of superficiality Yet we pretend to walk on water… Photo Hugh […]
The Philistines Are The New Patrons of Art Let me tell you a sorry story Saturday night at the Somerset House ice rink I was told by the hired security authority That photography is only permitted with phones The age of the selfie is the new culture throne Matching the Emperor’s clothes We deserve the […]
Elves and all other kinds of beauties Will roam the London streets on Halloween night A one night license to kill game But even if we live in a land of plenty We need a mask to forget about ourselves We let the selfies control our memories Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
Show me yours and I’ll show you mine Anything goes in the selfie and only fans world The schoolgirls and boys no longer in hiding Exposing more than they can vouch for We stand at the edge of the precipice And can’t wait to take the next step further Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Amazing show by two muscular Power Rangers Striking the pose in an befitting powerful attitude At the first click of a camera shutter As young groupies clutter around for the ubiquitous selfie Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night Shift Gallery
The Chihuahua power days Driving his ‘huaman’ around town We have no exclusive on artificial intelligence Evolution has its mysterious ways While we are busy with our selfies Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Almost an abstract like most of our lives We live with our prosthetic self night and day Making selfies to record the non events of our life And the meaning of selfie magnifies its emptiness Like a vampire looking in a mirror Not even Narcissus… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery