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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 […]
Soca Police girls in short shorts and miniskirts Enforcing the strict soca music laws of carnival No loitering and whispering sounds, only loud bass and dance Obey or they will beat the beat your brains out of your soulless body Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The perpetual movement of time consumes our fragile youth Convulsive beauty passes before our eyes in a blinding instant Love stops the clocks until the alarm sounds our wake-up call So we see the flowers walking down the street perfumes and colors Playing with the light and the lightness of their young age We are […]
Nascent multicolored Aphrodite like a Jackson Pollock painting Beauty standing at the edge of the shadow of a tattooed torso The legend says that Aphrodite (Isis for the Egyptians) was born in Cythera Emerging out of the foaming fluids of Uranus’ castration The writhing dragon tattoo evokes a raging Titan in his vengeance And by […]
The “Dazzling Shirt Club” boys strike the pose Pretending to be bad boys on best behavior Getting all the attention from the shapely ladies The young whites come here for the master course Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Sign language and selfies are the privileges of digital age Two girls all dressed up to impress march on to Masquerade The photographic snap of the instant can be misleading But the arrested waving motion gives a wrong but funny impression That is all the question about caption or no caption Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
Sideliners cruising down the Chepstow venue Drifting from the sidelines to the centre of the road Caught in the crossfire of the shuttering cameras Moments snapped away from real life to become images Capsules of time that may escape the maulings of a wild life Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Strutting down Westbourne Grove at the golden hour Young Diva indulges to the selfie craze and lets the gawkers gawk Strike the pose and let the cameras roll under the shining spotlights Glory is like a bright sun that goes up in the sky What happens next is under the cloak of night Photo Hugh […]
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 […]
Blue Tonka trucks and black barbie dolls rolled out to rewrite a toy story Under the discipline and punishment of the Met-Blue hordes Something both jubilant and savage, a kind of colonial mass conversion The blessing and quasi-atonement of a contrived new-age global religion But the beauty is in the instant we see and the […]