Sidelines
Saturday Night happy hour from the sidelines Riding shotgun at the free for all terraces Sipping sweet and sour lattes from a plastic cup While a crowd of sad fun seekers slowly flows by The foretaste of Paradise… Photo Hugh Ardoin The London Londoners Gallery
The Notting Hill sidelines get into the limelight again There is no respite for the onlookers and whatever others A piano lesson going on beyond the fence Tickling the ivories, I presume… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill Carnival Galleries
It seems that Bizarre has run out of angels But anything goes on the Soho Saturday Night sidelines No questions asked No answers expected Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
The human tide of the London Pride Fills the Soho streets with roaring waves Faces bobbing in the maelstrom of our lives Eyes meet while hands can never touch The winter of the heart starts on a midsummer night And a smoking young beauty lost at sea Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
To the speechless the dummies and the clueless Pink Lady is the commercial name of an apple Whether the Hesperides Garden or the one from Eden The same old stories share many different names Life goes on, followed by the Saints The fallen angels and a cohort of sins That will become tomorrow’s virtues Photo […]
The Hundred Years War will never end Little cupid at Agincourt Save your two fingers To throw your arrows Until your quiver lies empty Broken hearts scattered on your battlefields Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Encounters on the sidelines of London pride Beer Garden of Eden an invitation but not yet promise Once upon a time when we were still young and innocent We dreamed of six-pack abs in the folly of our ignorance But would not figure out they came off the shelf In every Supermarket of the Great […]
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
Shooting from the sidelines Capturing the candy and the candid The minutes of self-indulgence and vanity And all that would be consider lesser mortal sins Become overwhelming virtues When blessed by the angel of beauty Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
A pretty young thing smiles with her eyes Staring into the cold mirror of the lens As if there was some kind of soul inside But it is just an arresting net for fragments of time Meanwhile, her friend looks intently at the girl behind Emotions dance like fireflies in the air, almost tangible While […]