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The corridors of time connect with images of a distant past Visitors are explorers and travelers, sometimes wanderers Through awe inspiring beauty and horrors of natural or man-made history Heady dreams and burning mystical escape routes Leading to the inescapable end either in heaven or in hell Almost a choice… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Londoners […]
Tropical birds from distant dream islands dance in the street Girl on girl twerk in a hellborn saraband for your eyes only There is the price to pay for fun and we have the winning ticket They say every saint has a past and every sinner has a future Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
Superman supersedes the traditional culture The new and old Hollywood Conquistadors Reaping the hearts and minds of the younger Pulp fiction heroes of alien values with jackboots One hundred years of solitude wins extensions Photo Hugh Ardoin The Americas Gallery
White revelers under scrutiny from the Force Three men in the pot calling the kettle black As the whities prepare for a low-key ecstasy Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2017 Carnival Gallery (n.b. “kettling” is a technique used by the UK police to break down demonstrations)
Daydreams can’t wait for the night They travel on long brown legs Shaped as the astronomy map of a promised universe Distant planets in revolving revolutions waiting for explorers Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Twerk as a weapon of mass destruction Provoking disorder in the ominous presence law and order Challenging the million detestable incidents to make the revelers feel unwelcome And the gentrification barricades to keep the riff raff away from the stately homes Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Panhandling in Poshland for a penny or more It is Zakat season all year round in Knightsbridge kingdom Beggars lying on the street claiming their hunger on improvised prompters Impervious to this alleged distress, others walk their dogs in rhinestone sandals Purgatory is closed since it was sold to developers Privatized Heaven and Hell now […]
Like the eponymous apple the ‘”Pink Lady” From the garden garden guarded by the Hesperides, nymphs of the evening A blissful legendary garden in the Atlas mountains where grows the sacred tree Bearing the apples of joy and discord that no one should ever touch or eat Legends are a changing tree where the dragon […]
Holding hands tight looking at the cross Her sharp nails piercing his palm And his wound from a spear came as a humane gesture Freed from desire, crowned atop all the solitude of suffering This is the message of love from above You will suffer a thousand deaths Only to be freed by the promised […]
A dash of Afro-Caribbean colors in a crowded street Flashing the hoodie or the weaving is a claim to full emancipation There is no going back, black people exact their soft revenge For centuries deported, murdered, enslaved, invaded and robbed Granted an independence not worth the paper, no reparations The time of reckoning will come, […]