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No better words than Charles Baudelaire’s poem from the Flowers of Evil “To a Passer-by” The deafening street roared on. Full, slim, and grand In mourning and majestic grief, passed down A woman, lifting with a stately hand And swaying the black borders of her gown; Noble and swift, her leg with statues matching; […]
As the day grows hotter and wilder Birds of stranger paradise start a mating dance A flutter of colors and polyester feathers Very rare sight for the old ornithologist I am Could easily provoke the viewer’s cardiac arrest Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Summer in the City All the symbols come together Take your wheels and speed round the corner by Cheapside Where prosperity awaits in the Bank of England’s famous vaults But at night it’s a different world… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
Like the little exotic dancers who spin on the top of a music box Between security and the huge sound truck, the young beauty peeps With blue feathers from the mythical quetzal fanning over her head Caribbean girls, like Columbus before, have landed in the cold Channel summer The dream will last the time of […]
Hiding beauty behind a bejewelled mask is supreme refinement We can’t wait for the one thousand and one nights to pass So we just stare in awe as the apparition slowly disappears There will be no revelation, no redemption or salvation… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Shaking the black and green bubbles Two blondes swimming in a black sea High hopes to ride away on a high tide Who cares about tomorrow’s low ebb Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Young fashionista strutting along Oxford Street Summer days in drop dead second skin leather tights All purpose bag slung over her shoulder military style A banana sticking out of a pocket, a reminder of urban dangers Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners Gallery
From the cup to the lips a long journey just started Waving her soft hand the beckoning to drink the potion And become enslaved to some mysterious fever Lying awake and alone on a bed of flames A mild foretaste of the coming tortures of hell Voodoo Princesses offer the ineffable blessing of blindness Photo […]
A brick and stone office tower building Standing tall in the City of London There is a balcony to address the crowds Like the times of Mussolini and his goons But the ruler at the window peeps A pink flamingo he is in full control Photo Hugh Ardoin The Estates of Emergency Gallery
It is the nothingness she wears that make the difference You can feel the temperature rising as the feathers fan the fires A global warning of an impending mass destruction Catching the police and the elders unawares Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery