Urban landscapes
Sunrise over the City of London City Skyline As much as the Tarpeian rock lies next to the Capitol The morning lights shine like a funeral pyre A graveyard of towers raised to the vanity of temporal fortunes Rulers of our times are dinosaurs of the future But what bones do the Tyrannosaurus Rex in […]
A bridge is the beginning of a journey Over a river bigger than the Rubicon But it is the symbol that matters not the water The early morning on Chelsea Bridge Watching the commuters hauled in The joggers running like zombies Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
Every morning is a new beginning We do not need to wait for a whole year to start again A symbolic early morning view of London from Battersea Park Looking East to see the rising sun in a palette of pinks and purple Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
Wish you all a Merry Christmas Santa believers or not You hung your sock at the chimney And kept the carrot for the deer The Tower of London under the snow Is the reminder of the punishment Years to come under the yoke of new science Gaols and torture chambers Let’s celebrate ! Photo Hugh […]
There are no coincidences in this world It is only what open eyes can see Because time runs in circles Until we wonder whether we have seen this before A double decker hurrying across Battersea Bridge Taking our wishful thinking to the other side Free Guy is just a giant poster on a red bus […]
Winter wanderings on the bridges over River Thames In a cold golden sky, planes wage imaginary wars Following the adage that departure is a lesser form of death We have been slammed with departure restrictions until further notice Under a threat of something worse than death Human imagination is fathomless In its obsessive quest for […]
Human history is rife with the landmark fantasy The master’s vanity reach for the sky and even now to lower-space From the Egyptian’s pyramids for which we have found no other purpose yet To our fragile steel and glass temples of personality that may not fare well in time But to the ants of human […]
The night will take its quarters over London And the Saint Paul Cathedral once a beacon of light Is a mere tourist attraction sinking in the darkness In times of fear and pandemic of the aeons past Fervent crowds would congregate, seek protection and pray Today’s Ministers of God obey to Ministers of Government Leave […]
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 […]
A prototype in disguise crossing the bridge We all have dreams hanging above our heads Some will fall and some will survive They are our life-vests when storms come down on us Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery