Sunrise
The rising sun hazy moment on Chelsea Bridge The commuter tide is just rising And the sun, almost palpable yet so distant red globe Slowly rises like a lantern in the morning mist Iron beanstalks grow from their reflection in the water Towers standing erect in their wanton nakedness To celebrate their master’s ephemeral might […]
Looking at the city skyline from afar As the sky stirs its colors before sunrise The clouds pack-up the darks from the night And slowly drift away to some other hemisphere Towers emerge like dreadnoughts over the horizon We live in an illusion of smoke and mirrors Until our head hits a bump in the […]
A big tormented stone and a little blond thing Lost in their respective morning meditations A pathetic attempt at telepathic transmission While a timid sun rises between icy towers A very surrealist morning Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
And the Thames it has flowed for aeons It saw the Fire and it slaked the Plague And weathered the Blitz wave after wave But in the history of the City of London Never was a healthy population quarantined All economic activity brought to a standstill Who is king in this realm of fears ? […]
Rumbling along in the London West End The industrial wastelands early morning wake-up A pinkish sky dotted with hurried commuter clouds Barbed wire bouquets and miradores rise from the shadows Keeping the precious out of whatever harm’s way Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
After the rain, the golden moment of a Guilin sunrise The Li River swollen and lazy flows through the city Dramatic karstic rocks surge in a futile jab at the clouds in the sky Like some harmless jaws of a long dead dragon Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries