Blog
Strolling down Chepstow like victorious amazons Two black dancers in their minimalist or abstract costumes Feathers and flags can fly they fear no one The moment of truth meets the remembrance The history and the culture that no one will ever erase Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Big signs for small villages you can’t even Google the name of You have reached the Red Planet, on both sides of the road is the desert An endless plain of ferruginous rock and sand, the realm of perpetual dust A power line competes with the horizon to reach infinity A few cows huddling in […]
Nothing serious, it is just a twerk meet The pretense of a minute physical rub The rush and the blush, the instant forgotten Like butterflies bumping on each flower The inebriating spirits race to the head Dancing to forget and dancing to remember The celebration of a new freedom at every sunrise Hugh Ardoin The […]
Young black beauty waiting with sadness in her eyes Like the Beckett play about the futility of waiting The hope for the impossible event, the unfulfilled promise We break our hearts at the reefs surrounding our desert islands Watching ourselves drown in the foaming breakers Playing the scene on repeat, until we feel the pain […]
The millet harvest is gone now, and the desert reclaims the land A boy plays with an abandoned cycle wheel,but he does not see the symbol A marker, a kind of silent milestone on the road of life as the wheel turns The sky is the limit but you have no rocket You follow your […]
Regrettably this phrase is not from the French Divine Marquis, but the unruly Marquis of Waterford Remembering his hooligan deeds at Melton Mowbray where he painted tax buildings red in 1837 This is the origin of the legendary phrase “paint the town red” accomplish the brazen in a grand style These two young beauties in riot […]
The sweet scuba from Trinidad and Tobago Sailing through the crowds on a big smile, like a white skiff Wearing big goggles, a feather, a flag, and a few clothes Beyond the “come as you are” the disguise is the guise of reality This is the magic of the moment, when every girl is a […]
A woman walks home carrying her baby shaded under her veil The distance is not a matter of time it is about your thoughts When you walk your mind runs over the hills, jumps to catch the clouds It paints the landscape in your own colors and brings into it your memories Walking in the […]
Sitting atop their pedestals or high on the rooftops Like the gargoyles of Notre-Dame contemplating the riot Observing the human turmoil down below with a smirk Tolling and trolling the hours backwards from grave to crib Depending on the point of view Everything has a different meaning and shape We crawl and next we fly, […]
Like some alien space pod that landed on the Red Planet The adobe granary lies on the roadside waiting for the grain The laundry is hung out to dry on the fence, it could be the spacesuits Everything is possible in the land of mirages, blinding dust and sandstorms Reality will borrow many shapes to […]