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Heart-shaped shades and pouting lips ready for the kill A webbing gown and some denim under, good old John sang “imagine” I can’t believe the bottle is only water, looks like some love philtre Magic is on the way, you bump into goddesses at the door of every bar Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: […]
In the stifling noon haze of Harmattan days A desert princess pushes a gender-unfriendly bike on the sandy sidewalk Steadily advancing against the wobbly resistance of the machine Her mind set on her distant goal with the determination of the desert people Somewhere at the far end of the world commuters ride air-conditioned public transport […]
Life is a spinning wheel of fortune on fire We sit on the sidelines and watch the spanish armada rocking itself We see Kublai Khan and his giant fleet defeated by a divine wind Watching in awe our own life playing like a movie before our very eyes Until the last film spool is spent […]
Flying high on the Hill Swooping low on Chepstow Here she comes the star airborne Glittering accessories strategically dipped Juice in hand feathers in the hair A single meteor outshines the Perseids Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 4
The signs post their warnings about parkings and mews But to no avail to the free flying island birds who crossed many a sea They flew from far away to land wherever they please and sing their song To pare down the kings of Shrewsbury, undaunted by the feline mews Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries […]
The dark asphalt ribbon marks the divide of the unknown origin Between the white and white of the sullen and empty plains The electricity fairy iron trees shake their frozen skeletons The clouds dissolve into a melancholic drizzle of slush and snow Discolored northern lights slowly weave the future into the past As the train […]
Flaming red like a fire engine rising from hell The Devil’s bus carries our temptations higher Its polished bodywork reflects the passing beauties Symbolic double-decker stacked, ready and able In the sky above the other gods assemble their thunders The promise of a fiery battle where good and evil will tussle Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
Winter on the run sows his white flakes over the sleeping fields The furrows write long silent letters in their own secret language As a tired dark sky comes to rest awhile on the wire of a cold horizon Carrying the heavy snow packed in worn-out clouds coming apart at the seams The sky is […]
It is raining dark stars on Chepstow like a chaotic Perseid The dazzle and the sparkle in the wake of the Swift-Tuttle comet Dancing in the street in step with the blaring music from the rigs Writing love messages in longhand around the hips of the dancing girls Tomorrow it will be flashing memories and […]
For the sake of the distraction and leisure of the working class In the spirit and the name of the former Coney Island Luna Park The original massive 250 000 lights amusement park that opened in 1903 At that time, good old Walter Elias Disney was still wetting his diapers in Hermosa Life is a […]