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The Bank Holiday is just a few days away And Notting Hill Carnival has succumbed to fear The BLM demos drew many people but to what avail Carnival has been here for the same reasons since a long time And the dead it celebrated were no lesser Virtual Carnival is just pandering to an authority […]
While the same masters than long before Sit comfortably numb in their patent leather armchairs So many crimes have been perpetrated in the name of our own good We the people, the real people outside, we are starved of our Liberties And as the sheep file in line to the slaughterhouse The dream slowly vanished […]
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 […]
Encounters of the third kind on Chepstow Carnival or Masquerade is a moment of joy and kindness Young beauties fulfil their role as beauties and pose with grace What we have learned from African culture should not be lost Carnival is now part of the British culture and the vestiges of its Empire Photo Hugh […]
Young dancing beauty holding a bottle of rosé Wine and dance for us, you very young one Our throats have run dry and tears flow from our eyes The last moment has come the gag and the gallows Masquerade has changed sides, now parading in Westminster The masks are the new rule but of fear […]
Did we fall asleep at the wheel Sitting comfortably numb, feet resting on the table Watching the present slowly moving into the future As if this was a neverending TV series or soap opera The thunder of the news that Carnival is dead Was drowned in the fears of a lethal disease And the BLM […]
A few days away from the traditional date No move and no signs of a revival The year 2020 may well be the missing link The door wide open to extinction Black Lives Matter does not fulfil the same role As it is disconnected from African culture It may end up as a melting pot […]
Chepstow road is the catwalk where divas flow Measuring their power by the lenses and the gawkers Playing show-stoppers and twerk fire-starters A smile, a wink and some shake to cheer the crowds The government and the mayor blinded by their fears Held hostage to their polling ambitions Will break any possible tradition We cannot […]
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 […]
Draped in their respective island’s flags Black cuties twerk the colors down Chepstow Road Other groups indulge to the same shake in a sort of competition Chaos, confusion and body fusion are part of masquerade fun Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery