clouds
A young woman walking the bridge over the River Volta Carrying her business fortune of the day on her head Clouds float lazily in the sky, crossing the river without a drop Ethereal Narcissuses contemplating their reflection in the water Photo Hugh Ardoin Africa by any Means Necessary Gallery
Under a bright sky dotted by scattered cumuli The road to go to Togo stretches like a grey snake The treacherous serpent that will coil and strike In an instant of blindness the flash of a crash We know that one day we will die, but on the others we will not… Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
It is a long and straight road from Accra ,Ghana to Lomé, Togo Small shops flourish at the corner of the corn fields, the farmer’s pocket They sell the corn, repair a bicycle tyre and all the odd food and goods The iron wire, rubber band and cello-tape roadside self-help A do-it-almost-yourself business and social […]
The Channel is restless and beats the Dorset coast We watch the sea like a painting in a listing museum An invisible brush rolls the breakers onto the beach Whipping the clouds into a stampede from one horizon to the other Photo Hugh Ardoin English Landscapes Gallery
She was waiting for the bus at the embankment Half skiffs were raised as makeshift benches You could only see her legs in shiny nylons The other half of a mermaid waiting by the sea A building standing blind with so many eyes And a blimp in the sky chasing the clouds Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
Twin bridges cross the same river in an early morning rush The clouds send their mysterious messages up in the sky A signal that something is about to start from this small rivulet Caesar walking into Rome, against the law to fulfill his ambition On the far side, the unrevealed destiny and the hopes will […]
So, mankind believes it can rule nature By putting no-parking signs in the fields Growing crops for free on the land it staked Its hands are everywhere but hold nothing Waiting for the clouds to offer their water For the wind to weave the greens and golds And for the sun to ripen the wheat […]
Roaming the vast desertic spaces with his beasts A lone herder follows nature’s whims and his herd’s needs From one watering hole to the next grabbing the rare greens A long voyage to nowhere following the clouds They drift high in the sky carrying his dreams Seen from above humans are grains of sand in […]
In the red evening light on the Red Planet An old acacia stands tall in a millet field A palm tree just close by for company An as a pillar to rest its old branches Nature puts on a light show for the golden hour The waving branches chasing the clouds in the indigo sky […]
The desert has put on its green dress for the rainy season Clouds run in the sky like a flock of white and grey sheep A man stands under a tree in the middle of what appears to be nowhere He is holding a radio listening to news from some unknown faraway place Soon everything […]