Urban landscapes
However you look at it there is no same morning And the sun from afar sets his show with our clouds Early dawn in a sunset disguise for the marvel of our eyes Man-made mountains and peaks of concrete and steel Like the frog who wanted to be as tall as a bull… Photo Hugh […]
We carry our dreams in a cardboard box or a fishbowl As they cling to our arching backs in the early morning And in the eerie lights of dawn that is not day nor night Vauxhall Bridge appears in its gown of lights Reclining on its own reflection like a stranded starship Waiting to refuel […]
Continental breakfast at Chelsea Bridge Morning comes under a sunset disguise Such are plays of words and the twist of history The power station is left without power To house the last London glitterati Tarpeian rock and Capitol meet By the cats and dogs shelter… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
On an early morning rainy London stroll I came across the austere neo-Gothic House of Parliament Between the squalls there was a sudden rant in the cloudy sky Sowing light on the assembly, but the reps they were asleep When it shed a huge rainbow, they all scrambled to their feet Struggling to grab the […]
Dawn as seen from the Millennium Bridge looking East An Early boat unlike the proverbial bird, only catches the cold As the wind wraps the fog in gauzy shreds around the towers In the distance the Tower Bridge stands by the royal dungeons And further down East, the Canary Wharf sits cold on the Isle […]
Early morning golden dawn London City perspective The skyline allegory starts with a round dome for a state-god home And phallic towers of steel and glass for the temple’s merchants deals We shall see what remains in history after the ghost writers are gone And under the painstaking brush strokes of tomorrow’s archaeologists What did […]
Crossing the bridge from the Tate Modern chimney stack Heading for Saint Paul’s dome on the Hill Almost the road to Damascus and the great fall When the sun rose in a great flash of light The stray clouds ran away in an disorderly flock But nowhere was safe… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes […]
Early morning in a red sunset disguise We come to greet the sun at the top of a bridge Or spill our bile at the runaway time The greater picture of life comes without caption And the human tide takes its daily migration To appease the gods, masters, or both… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban […]
Surrealist pink and blue dawn at Chelsea Bridge The sun has been playing with fire and set the clouds aflame A pink airplane prepares the skies for a bright new day Brave new world full of words ensconced between closed pages While the commuters of the morning shift stay glued to their screens Writing essentially […]
Low ebb London Beach at dusk Late Saturday wanderers pick up the flotsam and jetsam The pebbles of our lives scattered at the shores before St Paul’s bulging brow Miracles are kept under its tight lid of white carved stone Cranes at the ready for tonight’s curtain call Such are the ways of the mysterious […]