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At night we dream awoke in our sleepwalk wanderings We are the Superwoman or Superman of our fancy At night we pump the iron in our brain to some hulk proportion We are both invincible and invisible until morning comes Photo Hugh Ardoin The Galleries Hits: 4
Bad girls doing good all the way downhill Going against the keyboard rules two blacks for a white But who would the hallucinations on carnival days Two days and tree nights binge of music and dance Who cares as long as you display the adequate cleavage Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery […]
Jason beware, the golden fleece is a reflective jacket in a window The fuschia pumps, updated Dorothy’s red shoes from the Wizard of Oz The yellow brick road ofthe legend of gold paved city streets nowhere near the emerald city Marketing rules the principalities of high streets in the new Kingdom of Oz Tin men, […]
On the festive days of Carnival there are more Queens than kingdoms You see no castles but the rulers have all come out wearing their crowns The moment unique of a celebrity conquered on the streets of the Hill Until the days and nights of celebration wind down to their end Garbage trucks driving in […]
The fairgrounds of fairyland are bristling with neon lights Gawkers and rubbernecks nose in the sky bump in the alleys Battalions of budding sharpshooters show their skills at the ranges To grab giant trophy teddy-bears that came all the way from China Blinking gravity-defying contraptions like neon snakes from a cyber jungle Coil around the […]
Like frightened beasts we came to slake our thirst at the deep lake of her eyes We drank the burning stars that shone on the water down to the last twinkle But the fiery chalice of this unholy Grail that we held to our parched lips Turned our hands into ash so they may never […]
The slow burning fires of a wintry sunset cast a faded glow on a boulevard of water Harsh winds come rushing from the seas shredding the clouds into blue-gray tatters But time hardly leaves ripples and wrinkles on the face of the old river A man-made prism, standing in its likeness of a Bohemian crystal, […]
Like an angel slowly descending the stairway from Heaven, almost fallen Landed in the middle of Carnival, at the wrong place and the wrong time The message from above will be lost in a whirlwind of music and laughter Her beauty only will be remembered in the minute celebrity on an ephemeral selfie The foreboding […]
Once upon a time there was a Carnival Streets were filled with music and multicolor feathered girls But the witches and sorcerers in their towers bitterly resented the people’s joy So they sent their men of law to quell the disturbances that pleasure makes On the tarred pavement under my feet, I read “Keep Clear” […]
Like an icon or a culture clash torn between two worlds The infamous colonial times and the African History Under a mysterious spell like the Da Vinci masterpiece Real life with a wry smile not hiding behind a green armoured glass Nor squeezed in a small room between the Italian and French Masters galleries Photo […]