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Riding shotgun on a moped on rainy days Come what may true love offers an umbrella Crossing the railway tracks under the karstic rocks Infinity always starts on the other side, where the grass is greener Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries
The beautiful wanderers, the lost, the amazed and the dazed Streaming uninterrupted down Chepstow at the beat of reggae And smokes mix with the alcohols of sweet wine and brandy Like waves, memories cross the oceans to break at the cliffs of oblivion Life is a desert island where passing birds bring light hopes and […]
Coca Cola flows over the world The secret recipe is in the marketing The haphazard cultural blend to blunder Offering the bubbly American Dream on a new passport But who cares if we get this dizzy drunken feeling Photo Hugh Ardoin THe Night Shift Gallery
Young Black Beauties strolling down Chepstow Pushing virtue to its limit, toting Evian bottles But other signs do tell how close are Heaven and Hell And we walk the line of earthly delights, and we take the great fall.. Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The sky pushes the heavy clouds across the horizons And the TV tower stands tall against the coming storms A giant ice cream cone, a stylized Pisa tower of modern age Between sun and rain a thundering battle is going on Bring in the archers in their rainbow true and fair bows Shoot down the […]
Young black beauties dressed as Elven Queens Standing out from the bland crowd in their starry outfits Pink and blue not exactly birthday suits nor baby clothes Black Barbarella’s, alien space girls fallen from the stars Just landed in time to save some distressed earthlings Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Standing along the New Sunset Boulevard “From China With Love” could be another new name It is Chinatown in China, neons and shooting stars The old world has suddenly become the new world Photo Hugh Ardoin The Night-Shift Gallery
Young black Aphrodites were raining on the streets They flowed through our eyes like a tidal wave And the undertow took away our forsaken souls They came armed and thirsty and found us hapless But this was only a dream, not even a mare And we pinched ourselves blue into the next day Photo […]
Seen from above as we came to land in Guangzhou A perfect line-up of cubicles in a square plot next to a factory Like a sandbox abandoned by a disciplined god’s child Or the servant’s quarters in a discolored Lego Garden Of Eden Photo Hugh Ardoin ‘Les Enfers Pavillonaires’ Gallery
Young black beauty makes the sum of all colors As the rainbow has been diverted for some other purpose And white is where colors all disappear into nothingness She turns to the camera with an annoyed dissing pout But beauty must thankfully pay the price for this grace Considering the burden of the alternative option […]