Urban landscapes
The sky is a theatre for the angels Of incomparable beauty, they go naked and invisible So we make death wishes that go unanswered Like Oedipus blinding himself in the hope of eluding his fate But the Oracles were nowhere to be found Nowadays Internet make things faster From liked to unfollowed, or banned Things […]
We look into the spotlights until we blink In this American Night that swallows London The old stone ruins and the glass-to-the-metal towers Vanity has no age, it is the mirror staring back at Narcissus And the seed of revolution grows into a tree The call for independence, the claim for freedom So light may […]
Clouds hanging in the summer sky Like a barrage of anti-aircraft balloons Under the trails of an imaginary blitz The River Thames and its changing tides Hardly reflects the blue skies in its muddy face We wait for a shooting star in the middle of the day We wish we could make a wish Photo […]
The River Thames at low ebb between Battersea and Vauxhall As the sun sets over the West End a stormy night prepares to engulf the city Menacing clouds unfurl in the sky like the standards of a ghoulish army Once a beacon for lost airmen, the Battersea Power Station stands in its new livery Every […]
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
High winds wrap a long bandage of clouds Over the festering wounds of the megapolis And the windows, in their shining arrogance Threaten your precious neck with their guillotines Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
Austere and abrupt like a death sentence Stone-faced walls rise in a windowless silence They keep their little secrets locked inside Letting ribbons of sky and narrow rays of light Seep through their narrow apertures Shadows paint grotesque changing shapes in the sunset An abstract evening gown that the night will steal away Photo Hugh […]
Keeping an eye for tidal waves to come A London mariner stands on the deck London is an island in an island Everything will come from the sea The Normans the Danes and the “who knows” Would it be so different if it was the Caribbean ? Photo Hugh Ardoin The Urban Landscapes Gallery
Flipping the bird to the stormy skies gathering over London city Like a Sauron’s (not Sauro’s) tower of iced vanity and steel Like a new-age “Rastignac” taunting the city Of the Balzac story of rag to riches, and back We live at the hinge of historic times Where we will get our fingers squashed Photo […]
The crosses’ last station at St Paul’s A cathedral’s dome rising like a golden nipple where heaven comes to suckle Believers and voyeurs rush helter skelter through the underground passages But Jesus does not need an oyster when he can walk on water So Caesar got his money back, a refund from above interest included […]